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but he emptied himself and took upon him the form of a ser ^ vant . How admirably does such a rendering coincide \ irith the design of the apostle , ctnd how forcibly rrmst it strike every intelligent mind , as conveying the real meaning of the passage ? So far then is this passage , properly translated , from supporting what this writer would infer froin it , that it directly opposes
it . We may observe that , so far as we have gone , ia his references to the New Testament ^ in no one instance has he . cited the real expressions of it , as they stand even in th £ commflfe translation , but has imposed upon us as its assertions what it no where
contains . Does that man act uprightly , who , professing to give me the assertions of a writer whose works are hi a language \ frhich I am unacquainted with , but which is familiar to hiitij Instead of giving a fair translation of his words , not only cites a corrupt translation of them , but also alters and misrepresents that translation ^ in order to make it speak a language , and support a sentiment , which the author never intended ? Yet such is the
conduct of the author of the Remarks on Mr . Stone s Visitation Sermon . There are , however , two remaining passages of the New Testament which are indeed its real language ; but then they do not either of them contain any thing like an assertion th atCfc Christ is God . " Those passages are , " King of kings , and Lord of lords , Alpha and Omega , the beginning and the end ^ the first and the last . ' * As to the first of these neither Mr . KStone , nor
any other Unitarian would , I presume , hesitate in apply ing it to Jesus Christ , who is " the Prince' of the kings of the earth , and Lord of all . "
The other , though applied to the Divine Being in an absolute sense , may be applied to Jesus Ch r i ? t in a relative one , without asserting that he is God . Thin- it i . evidently applied to him , a& we learn from the addition made to this title bv himself , * ' I
am the first and the last ; I am he that liveth and was dead ; and behold , I am alive forevermorc ?; amen . '' Rev . i . 11 , 18 , But ¦ w hen it is applied to the Divine Being ; , it is with the addition of < 6 Saith the Lord , which is , and which was , and which is to come ^ the Almighty . * Rev . i . 4 . 8 . Now with the former addifc
tion the terms < Alpha and Omega , the first and the last , " cannot be descriptive of the . Divine Being , nor with the latter addition can they be a description of Joscis Christ , nor are they ever so applied to him . * Epithets peculiar to the Divine Being alone ih the absolute sense of them , are also applied in a relative sense to men 5 so masters are railed feazdortxsj Tit . iLo . whereas the
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l . An Examination of the ReiHartcs oft Stone ' s Sermon .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1807, page 238, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2380/page/14/
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