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he exhibited a persuasive example to the rich to deny themselves for the benefit of the poor , which was very properly held up by the apostle to the Corinthians , as a motive to liberality , * ' That ye , through his poverty might be rich , rich in good worksj ready to distribute , willing to communicate / " Sec i Tim . vi . 18 ,
ii . Eph . ilL 9 , c < God who created all things by Jesus Qhrist * ^ . For my friend * s information upon this subject , I will tell him that the words ^ cc by Jesus Christ , " are wanting in the Alexandrian ^ Vatican ^ Ephrem , Clermont , and other manuscripts of high repute : that they are not to be found in the Syriac , Coptic , Ethiopi a Armenian , Vulgate and old Italic versions ^ and
that they are omitted in the citations of Basil , Cyril , Tertullian , Jerome , Ambrose ^ Augustine , and other ecclesiastical writers , that they are left out of the text by Griesbach in his second edition , and though retained by archbishop Ncwcome , they ar& marked by him as of doubtful authenticity . They are unquestionably spurious , they have no connexion with the context , and were probably a marginal gloss introduced into the text by § ome ignorant or officious scribe .
If however the words were ge ; nuine , they would prove nothing * My friend indeed alleges p . 168 , the advocates for the simple humanity of Christ say , that when the works of creation are ascribed to him , it means only the dispensations of things under the gospel . " We do : but to shew that we are not singular in this interpretation of the text before us , I will transcribe archbishop Nevvcome ' s note upon it . This learned
primate was not a Unitarian , nevertheless , he remarks _ , " the tense most suitable to the place is this , Who hath created all things , that is both Jews and Gentiles , anew ' to holiness of life /' * But , " continues my friend , " many of the expressions made use of in scripture , are too general and too extensive to
be thus limited . It is said that all things were made by him , " &c . The learned prelate however , who was au eminent scripture-critic , in the note which I have just cited , interprets the expression , " all things / ' as meaning nothing more than Jews and Gentiles . A very remarkable and important concession In fact , these universal terms are often used by the
sacred writers in a very limited sense . " All things /* says the apostle Paul , " are lawful for me , but all things are not expedient /* * Ye have an unction from the holy one / * says St . John , « c and ye know all things . " 1 John ii . 2 O . in . Heb . i . 2 ^ by whom also he naade the worlds / 1
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590 Mr . Betekants Strictures an Carpenter ' s Lectures *
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1807, page 590, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2386/page/26/
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