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      happiness ; according to which idea of their origin and constitution , and without any repugnancy to the words of St . Paul % they are by St . Peter denominated the ordinance of man .

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      . No .-i . VI . Buonaparte to live Thirty Tears . The emperor Napoleon has formed many projects for the good of his loving subjects ; amongst

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      2 Kings viii . 15 . is thus translated by Dr . Geddes * ' But , on the next day , having taken ajiyhet dipped iii waier , and put it upon his face ^ he died : and Hazael reigned in his stead . ' *

      * ' In rendering this verse , ' says Dr . G . * ' I have departed from all the ancient versions and most

      modern interpreters . They ascribe this action to Hazael , apd make him smother the king . 1 am

      convinced that the text admits of no such meaning- Ben-Adad , encouraged by the reported answer b * Elijah , makes use of a violent

      * Atttiq . Jud , 1 . ix , c . iy « § 6 , ( Ed . Hudson . )

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      -s . which are the notable ones of divorcing an old wife in order to marry a young one , and of living thirty years longer .

      The period herfc assigned by the emperor as the bounds of his wishes with regard to life , was the exact term of years which one of Oliver Cromwell ' s subjects and admirers pitched upon for the life of the Protector , lying on hfe death-bed ! Is not this ominous ?

      A noted independent divine , when 01 , Cromwell was sick , of which sickness he died , declared that God had repealed to him , that he should recover and live 3 & years longer , for that . God had raised him up for a work which could not be done in less time . But Oliver ' s death

      being published two days after , the said drvine publicly in prayer expostulated with God for the defeat of his ? p ^ pphecy , in these words ; Lord , thou hast lied unt * us ; yea , thou bast lied unto us , J .

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      remedy to allay the heat of his feyer : and claps on his face a wet net . This stops the perspiration , and he dies in consequence . SeeC . 'R "

      It is to be lamented that the writer did not live to favour the public vuth his critical remark * in justification of this rendering . That Hazael was the murderer of

      his raabter , wjII 1 think ' , appear highly probable , from the following considerations : ( 1 st . ) Jo $ ephus * expressly re * presents him as such . ( 3 d . ) The conduct of Elisha

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      No . LV . John Wesley ' s Commentary * In John Wesley ' s New Testament , edition of 1755 , there are the following harmonious notes on two different passages . John iii . 13 . and Rev . xix . 20 . i € Enoch and Elijah are not in heaven ^ but only in paradise " " Enoch and Elijah entered at mnce into the highest degree of gloryy without first waiting tn paradise / V \ * * ¦ i

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      28 R emarks upon 2 Kings viii . 15 . SfC ,

      Biblical Criticism. - 1 * ¦ ¦ ' I - ¦ . \ I . •»

      BIBLICAL CRITICISM . - 1 * ¦ ¦ ' i - ¦ . \ I .

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    • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1810, page 28, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2400/page/28/