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    die cbnnection in which the passage stands , that the article was designed to point out 'what particular wilderness was spoken oF ; namely , the wilcf erness of Judea ^ vhe re John preached , and by part of which ran the Jordan in which

    Jesus had been baptised . And what confirms me in this opinion , is , the great improbability that a writer should speak of a place , really existingy by a name descriptive of its particular nature ,

    and , presently after , and in close connection with what immediately precedes , repeat the same name to denote , not as before some such place actually in existence , but merely nn image of a place of the kind painted on a person ' s

    imagination , which might have no ex . ternal archetype at all ; without giving any clear intimation of his affixing to the same term , repeated within a very . short compass , ideas as truly opposite to each other as those of substance and

    shadow . It has been shewn already , that the phrases in or by the Spirit do not necessarily imply a vision , and therefore do not clearly intimate , that the word , which when first used meant a

    teal wilderness , meant when used next a visiondry one . The two questions put by Mr . F . p . 5 % and 55 . and before transcribed , I shall not repeat , but proceed to extract an observation

    iounded on them , which occurs in p . 62 . c < Though it could not with any propriety be salid ( observes Mr . F . ) that Christ was at this time ( when tht Spirit descended on him ) carried into the

    wilderness in a corporeal manner , in which sense he was there already ; ^ et there is no thing improper in

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    sayi ng * he was now conveyed into a wilderness in a spiritual manner ,

    in vision or mental representation , by the inspiration of the Spirit of God / ' With respect to this ob * servation I have to remark , that though there may be no impropriety in saying , a person was conveyed into a wilderness in vi * si oil , I am at a lc&s to discover

    how there would be less iibpropriety in saying , he was carried in vision into the wilderness , in which he was when he felHhto

    the trance or vision , ttfan iti Say * ing , he was carried in person in * to the wilderness , in whifcfi he xvas before he was carried thither , the

    Impropriety ( which , " however , I have already endeavoured to prove to be no morfc than a Jrewi - ing one , ) arising in each case alike from the circumstance of his bein « r

    carried from one part of a place to another part of the same place considered in the whole of its ex ± tent . Mr . F . appears to betray some suspicion of a defect in his reasoning to show that Jesus was no £ led in person into the wilderness in what he observes ( p . 70 . ) on Mark i . 12 , 13 . There he says , < c It is without doubt of one and the same wilderness , that Stl Mark speaks in both these verses .

    And were we to grant that this wilderness was a real one , am that Mark and the other" evangelists speak of Christ ' s being led ojjr driven into it personally and Cot ? poreally , it may nevertheless be true , that his temptation wag a mere vision ; if these phrases , tft p Spirit , in and by the Spirit , iu } £ port in this history , as they cer-j tainly do elsewhere , a miraculous impulse and illumination of th $ Spirit * discovering new truths to

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    Objections to Mr * Farmer ' s Hypothesis . £$

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1810, page 23, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2400/page/23/