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Examination of the Remarks on Stone ' s Sermon . 401
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sense , much less in this writer ' s sense , is not taught in any of the prophecies of the Old Testament . The term atonement does , indeed ^ frequently occur in the Jewish scriptures , but the word so rendered never in any instance means what is generally understood by the English terra : it never means , jx compensation or satisfaction made to the justice of God by a vicarious sacrifice : those scriptures never represent that , which in our translation is said to make an atonement , as enduring the wrath of God , or as bearing the pun shment of sin ; nor is any thing like this said of Jesus Christ in the New Testament . As then the-truth of the doctrine depends entirely upon the meaning of the word rendered atonement let us inquire into the import of it as used by the writers of the Old Testament . The original word so rendered is IBOy the radical meaning of which , as a verb , is , io cover ; as a noun , a covering : in the first passage in which
it occurs , ( Gen-vi . 14 . ) it is used both as a noun and a verb , C 4 Rooms shalt thou make in the ark , and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch . " In Isaiah xxviii . 18 . it is rendered disannul , and applied to making void a covenant by smearing it over . It is used several times for the hoar frost which covers the surface of the ground ; for the lid or covering of the ark of the covenant . In 1 Sam . 3 ii . 3 . and other places it is rendered a bribe , which covers the eyes . In Exod . xxx . 12 . 16 . it is the half a shekel , which was to be paid for the ransom of every man where the children of Israel were numbered , which is there called the atonement money . It means consecration as applied to Aaron
and his sons , to the altar and to the sanctuary , which was performed by sprinkling them with the blood of a sacrifice . It occurs in an address to God _ , Psa . Ixxix . 9- ~ > DD u atone , cover our transgressions for thy name ' s sake / ' where it can mean nothing more than forgive our transgressions , which is often expressed by covering them , see Psa . xxxii . i . Rom . iv . 7 . Thus Moses addressing the people of Israel , ( Exod . xxxii . 30 . ) says , " Ye have sinned a great sin : and now I
will go up unto the Lord ; peradventure I shall make an atonement for vour sin . " Where , to make an atonement evidently means to obtain forgiveness , through his intercession for them . So the word HDD , in the ix . chap , of Dan . 24 . referred to by this writer , is to be understood , " To make reconciliation , " ( that is , ) a to obtain forgiveness for iniquity . * And thus the word is always to be understood as applied to the Levitical sacrifices , not as being * vicarious , or as having the punishment of the sinner inflicted upoij
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1807, page 401, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2383/page/5/
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