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Laws ^ in conjunction with three other men ^ virho in every view resemfel 64 bimselt Vfith these associated Fultda ^ a woman oj rank who became a convert to the J ewis h
religion . * ' pec . See Jew * Ant . B . xiij . c . 3 , Now , in my ^ reply to Crito , [ VoL * & * . p . 543 , &c /) I have shewn by proofs that will not tie called in question by a $ y competent judge , that the wicked men whom Joseph us
liere describes aspi'ofessingthe wisdom of the Mosaic lawsrwere pretended teachers of Chrisu&nityr . Hence , these two consequences ibildw ^ tliat Josepbus , by the wisdom of the Mosaic laws , meant
Only what we mean by \ Christiapify , N apd that Fulvia , who is here f ^ id to have been converted by these men to the Jewish religion , ^ ras in , reality a convert to the religion of Jcstis . From this it farther follows , that , when Joseph us
in other places speaks of the wisdom , or of the philosophy of the Mosaic laws or of the Je ^ yish religion , he means the Jewish reli-0 oxif as it was refined and spiritualized by Christ ; and lastly
that , when he speaks of converts to Judaism from among the Gentiles , his object in reality is to speak of converts to Christianity .
These inferences place the character q ( Josephus in a new light , % nd when they ^ . rc fully established , he vyill no longer b ^ considercd as the ; Historian of the Jew
bi . it the historian g , nd apologist of the Christians . Christianity , when first pro * claimed to the Gentiles ^ could not fajl to meet ivith more favourable
reception from tiie ; women than ( vow t \ iG me 7 i + ^ pr tfai ^ may be ajlesged the tfrxee following rea * WWf , ^ 1 * 1 ^ 1 the geoiw of Chiisliwiity tended hnjiiedUtely to raise
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female sex , which had hitherto been cruelly degraded , to their proper rank in thier scale of society . — Secondlyy the p ^ th of the women , when invited to come over to the churclr of Christ , was not
stopped up with the rite of circumcisioii , whicli the mistaken zeal of its votaries had imposed on the men as a necessary condition fo share in the blessings of the
&osp , el . —Thirdl y ^ the female part ? of the Pagan world ,, as not . deriving the same unbounded indulgences From the Pagan religion , had not the same interest in supporting it , as the men had . For these rea *
sons they were less biassed in favour of corruption and error , $ ' && less prejudiced against tKe trutk and the purifying influence of tho gospel .
Josephus in his Jetvish War , B . iu 20 . 2 . informs us , that thfc people of Damascus had formed the diabolical design of murdering all the Jews in that city 5 who amounted to ten thousand ; and
he adds , " But they very carefully concealed this design from their wives , who , a few excepted , were brought under obedience to the Jewish worship ; * The apostle
PauJ , before this event took place , had for some years been preaching in that city , what he and others in those days called the Jewish rvor ship : and thte consequence of h £ s labours and the labours of his
brethren was , that almost all the \ irdmen ( and no doubt a great multitude of the nien ) were brought to the obedience of the faith . The
prevalence of Judaism at Damascus , in all the refihemejtts given ; to it will account ( and nothing else can account ) for the horrid barbarity which the people of that city committed on the Jews ,
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Early CfiristiQnh called Jcw $ . SS
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1811, page 33, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2412/page/33/
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