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    on purpose to put to him the question , u Art thou he that should cotnc , or dcr ^ ve loo k for another ?' A question which seems but ill interpreted as the

    language of impatience at his conffri ^ ift eto t , and as expressing a wish that Jesus would effect ftia deliverance from it ; but it is the natural language of dp&bt and uri - certainty as to the character which J&siis sustained . And id this very

    question it is plain that Jesus avoided giving an explicit answer ; for he only directed the messengers to report to their master the niiracles ^ vhich on that Occasion wgre wrought in their presence , and left it to hjim to form his own ctfneluteions from them as to the p jNectee character of him by whom they were performed . Now , if it

    m&y be allowed { hat the Baptist , Weft atthe close of his ministry , did not fully know what was the character and office of JeStos , it c ^ unbt' be- wondered at that he should not be acquainted here * with ih the early part of it . TWs tlt £ n- is the solution of your correspondent ' s difficulty ^ which is ably soppotted in tfye work before referred t 6 * I hope thtit it will nftbve satisfactory .

    Pcfritlit m $ 9 Sir , to make use of tfee present opportunity to intrtja ' tz-flie serious attention of your readers * to a most valuable Pub * litatibn , by thi Rev . John Simpsoft of Bath , on the meaning of the words , ¦*• devil , angel 9 \ heaven , "

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    150 Testimony of John Batispt to Jestis *

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    and others used in scripture ; at the close of which is acriticisra on Jb&n \ yi . \ 6 ^ 1 which is worth y of very diligent consideration * Leaving out the word * whatJ *

    he translates the passage to this effect V If > f ( or when ) : ^ ye shall see thfe Son of Man ascend up where he was before , " ( that is , risen from the dead , aftd appearing among the living ) f * then shall ye lenow * ' ( for the author

    supposes the passage to be ellijptical , and re ' coniaiends filling it up ifi this manner , so that it m&y evi- - dently appear to * be parallel with John viii . 28 , ) * ' then shall ye know that it is the spirit which quickeneth / ' &c . For the re * maihder of the criticism I beg leave to refer to the book itself ; and shall only add , that the siwlU

    ward combination of particlfcs ifc and ifj ^ in John vi . & 2 i and Mat . xxiv . 48 , appears' to irie to be a corruption of the old particle " an if ; * which ^ as well as the particle ^ an " by itself / most certainly conveyed , at the tiitfe \ rheq the present translation of the bible was rnade ^ the ve ^ y sa tti e idea which we now express by the single * particle " if . " AVith hearty wishes for the

    increasing and extensive usefulness of the Monthly Repository , I am , Sir , Yoxirs sincerely , J . T .

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    TISTIMOKY Of JOHN BA-PiClST TO JESVS . t \ »' r ' . >¦¦ ?' .,. .. ''' , , ^ , "f * . T ' . - 1 ¦ ¦ . ¦ - \ ' ' ' . - ¦ , i l 0 r . , . ¦ ¦ . . ... . \ ' it » To ( { the Editor of the Monthly Repository *

    Sth * ' Feb . 13 , 1808 , to 'Jfejsiis , ( yo \ . iii , p , 38 ^ accept tn : ^ p ] y td an inquirer respect- of ^ or reject tlie follbwiti g ^ ob ^ rva ^ ing the 'tcstSiriony of the Baptist tions rts ^ clu shall judge of tfyeijr

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1808, page 150, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2390/page/30/