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    the meaning of these phrases , but also between-the ends and objects of these different events . This interpretation 1 believe , will recommend itself to any one who considers the connection between

    these words of our Lord , ami the discourse that had passed before , concerning his ? kingdom .

    In general it is to be observed , that to come into the tcor / d ^ f to come forthjrom the lather ** and sometimes simply ,. ** to come , " do not ordinarily , if ever , in the

    character of a divine teacher . And in correspondence with this observation , it will be found that ; to he sent into the world , to be sent from God ^ and sometimes simpJv to be sent , signify to be invested b y God with this character , and amply qualified to support it .

    I would mention the following instances to justify and illustrate these observations . " Light , " says Christ , u is come into the world / ' i . e . * the Son of God , the light of the world , has made his public appearance in it ; ' and men have loved darkness rather than light , because their deeds were evil . '' Speaking of the reception which his ministry had met with , or would meet with among men , 6 C For judgment , " says Christ . ¦ " / am come into this wot Id , that they ' who see not , might si'C , ' '—that their ignorance might be instructed ; ' - * and that they who set * , mi&ht be made blind ; - ' i . c . that the ignorance , folly , and perverse ness , of those who pretend to a peiiect know

    language of the N . T . signify to be born , but publicly to assume the

    * " Came from God . " Sec a « t examination of this and similar phrases * Cn % * JDiss . vol . i . p . 22—37 . .

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    lS 8 Mr * tiapptj on some Scriptural Phirases .

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    ledge of divine things , and on that account are held in the high * est reverence , might be made manifest . ' Can there be any doubt that our Lord is here

    speaking , not of his birth , but of his public ministry ? Nicodemus declares Jesus to be a teacher come from God , because no man could do the mira

    cles which he did , unless God were with him . Did Nicodemus here speak of his entrance into life , or of the warrant and

    authority with which he assumed the office of a prophet among men ? evidently of the latter . u I proceeded forth / ' says Christ , " and came frdra God , * when and how ? when he came

    to take upon himself his public character , for he adds , " 1 came not of myself , for he sent me . '— - 6 I had still continued in my re . treat at Nazareth , if the impulse o my Father had not sent me hither /— The ' son of man

    came not to be ministered unto , but to minister . * ' These words cannot , either with propriety or with truth , be referred ] to his entrance into life , for he did come

    then to be ministered unto . It is not of any deed of providence that lie is l \ ere speaking ; he is proposing his own humility as an example to his disciples , and

    appeals to the knowledge they had of his conduct among them . Even from his first entrance on the ministry , they knew that he had called them and joined them to himself , not like the princes of the Gentiles to exercise dominion and authority over them ; he did not make disciples for his own

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1810, page 188, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2403/page/28/