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This however is certain , that the passage is not a prophecy of the divine Being , but of a man , and therefore it cannot represent the subject of it as possessed of proper divinity . The Remarker ^ oes on to enumerate other unequivocal expressions , as he calls them , of the divinity of Jesus Christ in
the following words , He , whom David styles 4 God , * PsaJ , xlv . 6 , 7 , 11 . — whom Isaiah styles < the mighty God , the Father of eternity / Isa . ix . 6 . — -wiiom Zechariah dignifies vvith the incommunicable name of * Jehovah , ' xi . 8 — 13 . representing him , nevertheless , as sent by Jehovah /*
Before we enter upon his references to the New Testament * let us examine these produced from the Old . As to the first of them , Psal . xlv . he ought to have known that neither in the Hebrew of that Psalm , nor iti the Greek of the first chapter to the Hebrews , where the passage is cited , is there any thing to warrant the rendering of the first clause , Thy throne O God . "
The true rendering of the words is , " God is thy throne , " that is , the foundation , the support of thy dominion . That the words are not addressed to a Being who was properly God is manifest , because in the following words God is styled his God , and on account of his love of righteousness , and hatred of
iniquity , he is said to have anointed him with the oil of gladness , above his fellows . Now if the person here addressed was God , equal with the Father , who can be intended by his fellows , except the other persons in the Trinity , who with him were equally God ? Would not then his being anointed above them destroy this equality , atid give him a decided pre-eminence ^ and
superiority over them ? He next introduces Isa . ix . 6 . where he says that , Isaiah styles Christ " the mighty God _ , the Father of eternity . " Here the following questions are naturally suggested : Can the divine Being be the subject of prophecy ? Can it be foretold of the immutable God that he would change his mode of existence , cease to be what he is . and become an infant , born of one of his creaat of
tures ? That he would b ^ the disposal some other Being , a Son given ? That he would be advanced to power ? And f ^ Tat t hen he would be called , that is he would really be , " the mighty God , the everlasting FatherV And can i . t be said of him , the mighty Gocly as it is here said , that he shall sit upon the throne of David his father ? It h added , " The zeal of
Jehovah of hosts shall perform this , " Who is this Jehovah of hosts ? Ts it himself whose zeal would accomplish this prediction respecting himself , or is it some other Jehovah ? Some critics have supposed that the name by which this child was to be called , was simjphyhi : prince of peace , and they render the passage , " and he /'
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173 Ah Examination of the ReHtarks on Stone ' s Sermon .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1807, page 178, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2379/page/10/
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