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&fas what was to take place or had taken place on the third day 7 and but one in which the time that he was to remain in the sepulchre is stated as three days and three nights : is it not reasonable
to allow , that , by the latter expression , we are to understand -only part-of three days and nights ? But , to confirm this interpretation , let it be . observedj that , when the chief priests and Pharisees came to Pilate ,
desiring that a guard might be placed at the sepulchre , ( because Jesus had declared , while he was yet alive , that after three days he should rise again , ) their request is only , " Command that the sepulchre be made sure until the
third day , " ( Matth , xxvii . 63 . 64 . ) pluinly intimating , that they considered the phrases after three days , ( and consequently , three days and three nights ^) and on the third day ^ as meaning the same thing . It may be added
-2 . The scripture historians yery frequently speak of parts of years or days , as if they were whole ones . When two of John ' s disciples followed Jesus , and were invited by him to his lodgings , it is
said , that they went , and abode with him that day , ( John i . 39 . ) Now it is plain , that here the word day can mean only part of a day i for we are immediately told that it was then about the
tenth hour so that , according to the Jewish method of reckoning , tfiere were but two hours of it remaining . Ln the Old Testa * , a&ent , the reigns of the kings of
Israel and of Judah cannot possibly be adjusted to one another , without very often allowing that by a pear is meant only part of a year . Two remarkable instances to this X
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purpose are to be met with in 1 Kings xv . 25 , 25 . and xvL 8 } 10 * And there is another passage , which particularly and niosfe de * cisively proves , that after three days and on the third day r were considered as expressions bearing the very same meaning * Whe »
Jeroboam , attended by the congregation of Israel , waited upon king Rehoboam to solicit a redress of grievances , the king said unto them , u Depart yet for three
days , and then come again to me /' And then it follows , that Jeroboam and all the people came to Rehoboam the third dayy as the king had appointed , saying , "Come to me again the third day . " 1 Kings xiu 3 , 4 , 5 . 12 .
It is hoped that these considerations will convince A * B . that there is sufficient reason for understanding the three days and three nights in Matth . xii . 40 . as
meaning only part of three days and nights ; in which case , he will find no difficulty in reconciling the declaration of Jesus to what is a well-known fact . In *
deed , if it must necessarily be granted , that the time during which our Saviour was to remain in the sepulchre , and the time that Jonah continued in the belly of the fish , were exactly of the same
length ; it will , perhaps , be moxc reasonable to allow , that the prophet was no more than part of three days and nights in the fish ' s belly , then to maintain that Jesus intended to say , that he should
continue three whole days and nights in the sepulchre , when ha so repeatedly declared , that he should rise on the third day , and the gospel-history proves that he actually did so . Permit me just to remind A . B *
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Sign of the Prophet Jonah * 133
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1810, page 133, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2402/page/29/
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