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cy , there would be some reference to his mission , and the work he was to perform , or to the end and design for which he was given , bat nothing like this appears ^ if the common rendering of the words el geber , be tbe proper rendering . The other appellation in this text referred to by the Remarker on Stone ' s Sermon ., as expressiye of the divinity of Christ , is .
* The everlasting Father / ' or as he renders it , " The Father of eternity / ' But is there any sense in this rendering ? Can the terms Jat her and eternity have any relation to each other ? Can eternity have a father ? The common reading everlasting Father is intelligible ^ and perfectly applicable to Jesus Christ . It imports nothing more than that his seed should be eternal *
or as the scripture expresses it , endure for ever . " Dr . Gill , who was a rigid trinitarian , renders it ,- " the Father of . the future age . " The Septuagint , the Father of the world to come /'
Lowth says * , * I am persuaded it is from the authority of this text , that the state of the gospel , or the kingdom of the Messias , is called in the New Testament , i&e ? . kwv cucvv , the age or world to come '
Whatever therefore ^ may be the import of these titles , it could not be the design of the prophecy to convey the idea , that the child who is the subject of it , was the very God , possessing in himself proper divinity . The Remarked next reference , is to Zechariahf , who , he says " dignifies hfrn ( Christ ) with the incommunicable name of Jehovah , representing him ,, nevertheless , as sent by Jehovah /* It would be difficult to find in polemical writers , a proposition inorc inconsistent than this— "that the name , Jehovah , isincommunicable ^ and yet that a person sent by Jehovah is dignified with it . " From which proposition it will-follow ,, either that
the person so dignified had the mere name conferred upon him , and was not himself Jehovah , which would be ruinous to the Remarker ' s scheme , or else that there are two Jehovahs , the one the sender and the other the messenger sent by him , which is subversive of one of the most obvious truths of reason and
revelation , the unity of God . These consequences can only be avoided by another supposition equally absurd , that is-, ' that Jehovah is the messenger of himself . But is the assertion , that Zechariah dignifies Jesufc Christ
with this name , true ? Nothing like it appears in the prophecy * It refers to Judas covenanting with the chief priests , for thirty pieces of silver to betray Jesus ; to his bringing again the thirty pieces of silver , and casting them down in the temple ; and to the chief priests buying with thejn the potter ' s fields " This
* In Joe . f Chap , xi . $ —13 .
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1 SO -An Examination of the Remarks on Stone's Serhion *
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1807, page 180, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2379/page/12/
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