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that country : and it was natural that the churches , as Luke re , lates , should then have rest throughout all Judea and Galilee and Samaria . In my next paper , I shall point out and explain some passages in the N . T . in which this decree of Ti berius is recognised ? The happy effects of it were felt long after the days of that emperor ; and it will appear to have been rein * forced by Claudius . THEOLOGUS .
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132 Sign of the Pr&phet Jonah .
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SIGX OF THE PROPHET JONAH .
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To the Editor of the Monthly Repository *
Ealand , Sep . 16 , 1 S 09 , SIR , / In reply to A . B . { vol . iv . p . 474 ) who wishes to see our Lord ' s explanation of the sign of the
prophet Jonah , ( Matth . xii . 40 . ) ¦ that the son of man would be three days and three nights in
the heart of the earth , * ' reconciled with the known fact of his having lain in the sepulchre only two nights and one day ; I beg leave
to observe , that the only way of doing this appears to be , to admit that the meaning of Jesus was , * The son of man shall be part of ( not the whole of ) three days and
nights in the heart of the earth . " For admitting this interpretation of his words , the following reasons may be offered . 1 . In almost every other pas
sage in which Jesus speaks of his resurrection , he expressly says , that this event was to take place
on the third day . See Matth . xvi . 21 . xvii . 23 . xx . 19 . In Mark viii . 31 . indeed , the words given us are after three days ; kut * in the parallel passage in
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Matthew , ( xvi . 21 . ) they are , the third day . In the obscure declaration , John ii . 19 . 21 . ( which , we are told , he snake concerning
the temple of his body , ) he says , u Destroy ye this temple , and in three days 1 will raise it up ;" which may surely mean within
three days , as well as when three days shall be completely expired * Of his words spoken to his disciples in Galilee , the angels remind Joanna and her companions , Luke xxiv . 6 , 7 . where the same form
of expression is used , u The son of man must be crucified , and the third day rise again . " And he himself , after his resurrection , said to his apostles , u It was necessary that the Christ should suffer , and that he should rise from
the dead on the third day , ( v . 46 . ) And , accordingly , the apostle Paul , writing to the Corinthians , ( 1 Cor . xv . 4 . ) mentions it as an article of the faith he had delivered to them , that Christ rose
again the third day * Now as there are so many passages in which his resurrection is spokeB
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their care , both the people themselves , as possessing peaceable dispositions , and their laws , Which , like oil , brace them with "order and resolution .
This wise measure , ( with others mentioned by Tacitus , Suetonius and Josephus , all calculated to produce universal peace , ) as soon
as executed in the provinces , must have put an immediate stop to open and direct persecution , This now raged in Judea ; but it was necessarily suspended , as soon as the imperial decree had reached
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1810, page 132, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2402/page/28/
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