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reigb tp their own religion , wcjuld Bate him ; nor would they safer a Jew to rale ov ^ Jftejny tzajtgs referred the question to Ananias , wKo approved of the mother ' s advice , ^ h <| " threatened withal * jb
leave him ^ unless he obeyed ; ad » ding , that if the Prince was quite determined to embrace the Jewish J ' ^ s . ^ ' i fmight ivors ^ ip Qod without circumckioii ; and that such
q deferf ^ jnatipn was more a (? ceptable than if he were circum-Iz ^ ejs , breing satisfied wit !* these argjimeiiitsj laid aside his first design . But a certain Jew of Galitee , named j 0 $ azar , a man reputed learned in the law , gained adinfesioji to the king ; and Ending Ixifn reading the law of Moses , thus accosted him" Art thou 1301 a ^^ rq , 0 king , how greatly thou jjroj ^ aest the law , ond tli us dis-Spnpurest Gpd : for it behoves
thee pot to read the law , unless ** T ' . t , ' * .- »' . "' i "''"¦ ! ' ¦ * ' *'"¦'» . * " : ¦ i w . 'i . i jthou hast first done the things commanded by the law . How long wilt thou continue
uncircum-£ i $ e $ ? and if thou hast not yet read the commandment respecting t circM . incision , read it now , that thou mightest know the impiety of jioi complying with it * " Such
jepaonstrance , which must hatve sounded terribly in the cars of that mild aiid pious princ ^ had | he ( desired ^ effect . He submitted to the opesratipn , without the consent of Anani as and the mother . I groceed in the qext plac ^ to s ^ iew , that these amiable personin
Bjge ^ becoming Jews were in r ^ a ji i ^ conve rts to Christianity . The ^) l | owi | ig a rgu nients will determine the point ; 1 # - ^ Jew ye ? ir $ Jbfefore the cottm . *^^ jd& ia qu estion took place , the ^? al | U $ ^ Jf Jesus yese ^ d M ^ truc ^ ^ oato go ^ 4 pt ^ acH to the Gen *
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tiles , a doctrine which was pot only called Judaism but was Jmdaism in the strictest sense , purified indeed from its grosser parts ? ^ tnd brought into clear light from under the types and figures , under which it had hitherto been
veiled by Moses and the prophets * And we are warranted in concluding , that the Jews who converted Helen and Izates were of the number oi those who had engaged in this arduous commission ; Ananiasibeings perhaps , the Very person who is thus named in Acts
ixVlO . 2 . The object of this preacher was to induce the Pagans to become Jews in the spiritual sense * Ananias inculcated on Izates , that he co ^ ld worship God as
acceptably Uzthout as w ^ th circumcision ; a doctrine Which never entered the mind of a Jew , till it was taught by Christ and his followers j and this consideration proves with absolute certainty , tfyat Ananias was of this number .
3 . From the book of the Acts we learn , that wherever the apostles preached spiritual Judaism , they were followed by their open enemies , or itieir false brethren , who endeavoured to frustrate their
efforts by insisting on the circumcision of the body instead of the circumcision of the heart . This was the case on the present occasion , Eleazar , a Galilean ,
obtained admission to Jzates , and , virtually reprobating ^ he doctrine of Ananias , defeated his end in regard to circunacision ; . ^ n . d what is , most remarkabl ^ j Josepbus
holds up jEleazar as a pretender tp superior kno \ yledSge of the law , and that in the y ^ ry pepiiHar language which the apojatfe Paul tyses in jdesignating those men of appearance ^ thvm fal $ ® brethren ,
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Qorwersion of Helen mid Izates . 107
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1811, page 107, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2413/page/43/
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