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BIBLICAL CRITICISM.
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On Acts ixi 3 li SOS
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Wfe learn from Tertullian , Eusebius , and Orosius , ( see . Lard » tier ' s Works , vol . vii . 232 . ) that a year or two after the resurrection of Jesus , Sejanus , the favourite minister of Tiberius , accused
the Christians at Rome , and caused many of them to be put to death , and others to be banished from Italy into remote islands , where they might perish by the severity of the climate . The fact is stated
by Josephus , Tacitus and Suetonius , though they designate the sufferers under the general name © f Jews . It was natural for the apostle Paul to allude to these transactions in his Epistle to the Romans : and we find him
asking , chap , viii . 33 . " Who shall Accuse the chosen people of God ? God acquitteth them ; ^ vho is he that condemneth them ? Christ
has died for them , or , rather , he is risen for them , ( that is , he is the advocalle ' risen up to defend them , and to plead their innocence , ) who is at the right hand of God , and who intercedeth in otir
behalf , " The Jewish historian affirmte , that ;< c two thousand of the Jews Ortite but to de ( # h by the senate : " ktid tae Roman writers say , that
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the rest were sent into distant places , where they might perish by cold and famine . To these facts the apostle significantly alludes : " Who shall separate ui from the love of Christ ? Shall affliction , or distress ., or persecution , or famine , or nakedness , or
the sword ? as it is written , For thy sake we are killed all the day long : we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter , " &c .
According to Josephus , ' the cruelties practised on " the Christian Jetirs at Rome , were principally owing to a wicked Jew , who pretended to teach the wisdom of the Mo *
saic law . This man uniting with : two others like himself , were con - cerned in the adultery of a celebrated worn in , and , moreover , guilty of withholding the rich pre - sents given by her to the temple
at Jerusalem . TMs conduct , of course , gave occasion to the Roman people and other nations to blaspheme God and his holy law . Now , it is remarkable , that Paul
expostulate with a leading man in the church at Rome , who apjpe&rs to hav ^ e cenrirnittcd the ' vtery crimes which Jp ^ plms ascribed to him , notwithstanding his pretended zeal against idolatry -
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of your correspondent , Cc What passages of Scripture do they build their sentiments upon ? " I need only refer him to my former let . ters in your Repository , where he
will see a discussion of some of the passages on which my sentiments are principally fountied .. Your ' s , &c . JOHN MARSOM .
Biblical Criticism.
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ON ACTS IX . 31 * ¦[ Continuedfrom page X 3 ?* l
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1810, page 303, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2405/page/31/
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