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congregations : that which St . Paul mentions first must have been very inconsiderable indeed , and w £ have no cause to presume , that the others were larg £ . And hence it should seem , that the circirpumstances mentioned in the Epistle to the Romans ^ instead of weakening , do rather support my hypothesis . ' * If there $ e truth in this state - ment , and force in these reasonings , it sets ftside the supposition that the Christian Religion was
publicly km > # n , and the professors sufficiently numerous and powerful to be regarded with fear and jealousy at Rome immediately after its promulgation , in the reign of Tiberius , and under the mi *
nistry of Sejaiaus ^ who died in the thirty-second yeaT of the Christian sera . The spread pf Christianity , through rapid , was slill gradual atid progressive . It . began at Jerusalem . It was advanced , as
other great changes arey by a process which required time and many movements : ancl it is against all probability , that it should reach to Rome before it had spread
itself through Palestine : it had then to travel through Asia Minor , and was to be preached in the cities of Greece ; or it was to
be more immediately transmitted across the Mediterranean Sea . In either case a distance of at least between 12 or 1500 miles was to be passed . Though it be ad . nutted that the cc Strangers from
Rome , " who were present on the day of Pentecost , at the first effu - sion of the Holy Spirit , and heard Peter ' s sermon , carried the Ifirst tidings of the GQ ^ pel to that city , fcnd formed themselves into a Churchy it is against all probability that they could , for a number
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of years , become a considerable fcpdy in that idolatrous and populous capital ; unassisted as they were by $ , ny apostolic visitor , till Paul appeared th « re in the year 60 ; and of : course destitute of the divine sanction of miraculous gifts , unless they had been communicated to any on their conversion
at that memorable season . At least it appears , from the benevolent wish expressed by Paul * Rom * i . 11 . to have an opportiu nity to cc impart to them some
spiritual gift * to the end that they might be established , " they did not enjpy those ample and full supernatural powers which were de * sirable for their own confirmation
in the , faith ^ and particularly necessary to the efficacy and success of their efforts to promote the reception of the Gospel around them . J . T .
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On 1 Cor . x . 4 . SlJR , In the Notes and Queries 6 a passages of Scripture in your last number , £ voh V . p . 555 ] signed N . I observe an attempt to illustrate 1 Cor . x . 4 , which
appears to me very unnatural . The Apostle ' s reference is not to the rock it selfy but the stream which issued from it ; and therefore it is not likely that he should intend to represent Christ as & u rock of offence . " It appears much more natural to suppose that he had a reference to that spiritual refreshment and consolation to be derived
from the doctrines and promises of Christ ; which ideals confirm * ed by his own metaphorical jr $ * prQscnt ^ tiqrt , John iv , 10 . 14 .
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SS On l Cor . x . 4 *
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1811, page 38, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2412/page/38/
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