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n . John i . 3 . cc All things were made byhin ^ and without him was not any thing made that was made /' Upon this authority , I presume that my friend regards Jesus Christ " as the grand agent employed b y the Supreme Being iix creating and governing the world / ' p . 128 . My objection to
this interpretation is that though the word vivo ^ m occurs upwards of 700 times in the New Testament , there is not one instance in which it signifies to create . Mr . Cappe , ( RemarksonSenpture , v . i . p . 39 ^) observes that it signifies to be , to come to pass , to be done , as well as to be made . His translation is , all things
were by him /* i . e . doneby him , and without him was notany that has been . " His explanation is , " all things have been by his authority , and according to his direction : and or their own mere motives , and without his warrant nothing has beendoneb y his ministers . " Cappe ibid . p . 7 , 3 . This I have little doubt is the true meaning of the text .
in . John iii . 13 . CQ No man hath ascended up to heaven but he that came down from heaven , even the son of man who is In heaven . " This is one of the texts which my friend leaves to speak for itself : let us impartially listen to its voice .
' * No man hath ascended up into heaven , but he that came down from heaven . " The son of man had not at t . at time locally ascended thither , consequently , this expression must be understood figuratively , u . d . No man is acquainted
with the counsels and purposes of God to man , but , &c . And now methinks I hear my worthy friend indignantly exclaim , this is the way in which the plainest texts of scripture are perverted from their obvious meaning , and tortured into a sense the most remote from theirtruesigniticafion . And thus it is , that men who have hypotheses to defend will not believe ii , e clearest and most
unequivocal languagew / hich contradicts their favourilesystcms—Softly , my good friend . The interpretation I have set down is not the frigid and far-fetched gloss oi naughty Unitarians . It is the approved exposition of the orthodox Heza , the learned Raphelius , and the evangelical Doddridge , who have supported their interpretation by arguments which will not easil y be confuted . For my own part I a loot it with the greatest satisfaction .
and only plead in behalf ot the Unitarians that the liberty of interpretation which they allow to others , may be conceded to them . " No man hath ascended up into heaven , but he that came < down from heaven /' Now as the expression , " ascended up into heaven , " is al-
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JUV . Belsham ' s Strictures on Carpenter ' s Lectures . 545
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1807, page 545, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2385/page/37/
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