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    • BIBLICAL CRITICISM.
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      tated the Exertions of the benevolent , ( which had certainly existed for more than a century , ) the really benevolent of every name or party will " thank God , and take courage" in continuing them .

      I not only concur with J . B . in thinking that a preceding correspondent of the Repository is under a mistake with respect to

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      To the Editor of the Monthly Repository .

      1 . Cor . v . 1 . It is reported commonly that there is fornication among youy and such fornication as is not even named eveit among the Gentiles , that one should have

      ( i * c . marry ) his father s wife The persons guilty of the gross immorality here noticed , possessed , it seems probable , some consequence . Their wealth and influence afford a sufficient reason

      why the converts at Corinth , who in general were poor and unprotected , and consequently the more glad of receiving and retaining among them men of rank and distinction , should rejoice in

      having such for their brethren , while their conduct was a disgrace t |) their profession . A young man it appears , became enamoured ot his father ' s wife , ( which , in IJebrew and Arabicis a

      circumlo-, cution for a step-mother J and married her , the father having either divorced her , or he being now dead .

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      the pecuniary aid of the Ameru can government , but I assert that its liberal provisions were never committee ! to the disposal of the Society of the Friends ; and I apprehend the mistake has arisen from the President ' s having

      appointed one or more of the members of that Society as his agents on that occasion . WILLIAM DILLWYN .

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      - Festivity and joy are the natural concomitants of marriage ; and the ( vent le ^ eived on the part of the Christians the usual tokens of joy and congratulation . But in the

      estimation of the apostle a union so unnatural between persons that professed the gospel , was rather a subject of funeral sorrow than of nuptial gladness : and this is the figure , which our author , with

      his usual boldness seized , to express his disapprobation and regret ; And ye are puffed up , and have not rather mourned that he who hath done this deed , mig ht be carried away from among you .

      As though he had said , " You rejoice in these persons as in a newly married couple , while you ought to mourn over them as morally dead , and should

      accordingly remove them from the church as those who are actually so . " A corpse going to be interred was preceded by mourner * , whose hv * mc ' illation ? commenced as a siff-

      Biblical Criticism.

      BIBLICAL CRITICISM .

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      604 Remarks upon 1 Cor , v . 1 .

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      REMARKS UPON 1 COtl . V . 1 .

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    • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1808, page 604, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2398/page/28/