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he hath caused to meet or turn by him , and so Peter understood the \ vords 5 as appears from his allusion to this p assage , 1 Epist . ii . 25- " For ye were as sheep going astray , but are now returned unto the shepherd and bishop of y < aur souls / ' where , the word returned is manifestly his interpretation o £ the word which we render hatk laicL He is
there setting forth Jesus Christ as an example to us or patient suffering , and introduces this passage to encourage us to an imitation off him : " Christ / 5 says hc 3 " hath suffered for us , leaving us an example that we should follow his steps /* But if his sufferings were vicarious , or a bearing of the
punishment of our sins , they would have no analogy with our % and consequently he could not ^ in his sufferings , be an example to us , nor would this passage have been at all to tbeapostle ' spurpose * He hath causedto meet , or turn , through him the iniquity of us all , is perfectly similar to those expressions of the New Testament , Qi He shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob : " and again , ci God hath sent him to bless you , in turning away every one of you from his iniquities /*
In the 7 th verse 'it is said , He was oppressed , and he was afflicted , yet he opened not his mouth : he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter , and as a sheep before her shears ers is dumb , so he opened not his mouth / ' There is no evidence that , in this passage , Jesus Christ is compared to a Jamb , in allusion to those which were offered in . sacrifice tinder the law . Leading to the slaughter , and shearing lambs is not descriptive of a sacrifice . From the vvh p le of the passage it manifestly appears that the design of it is to represent the meekness , innocence , patience , submission and resignation which he manifested in his sufferings . When he is styled in the New Testament the 6 C Lamb of God / ' and " the Lamb that was slain / " the metaphor is probably designed to convey the same idea , and not that of his being
a sacrifice . A iamb slain is a natural emblem of oppressed innocence- The phrase " The Lamb of God that taketh . away , or beaxeth sin , " is no evidence of an allusion to the Jewish sacrifices which are none of them said to bear the sins of the people ; besides , the fig ure of a ( anib represented to John in vision as an emblem of Jesus Christ , is of such an extraordinary kind as could not be offered in sacrifice
under the law , it being said to have seven horns and seven eyes , see Lev * xxii .- 23 . There is not any thing in this connexion , then , that in the least favours the popular notion of atonement ,
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Examination of the Remarks en Stone ' s Sermon . 403
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1807, page 403, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2383/page/7/
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