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BIBLICAL CRITICISM, AND INQUIRIES AND DISQUISITIONS ON ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY.
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tions never befal without a cause , nor arc sent but upon a proper errand ; these storms are never allowed to rise but in order to
dispel some noxious vapours , and to restore salubrity to the moral atmosphere . Herein appears , if we may be allowed so to speak , the wonderful art and skill of the
supreme artificer , the profound depth of the divine wisdom , in extracting from distresses and sorrows the materials of peace and felicity : nor are only the external calamities of men subservient to
this purpose , but their intejnal infirmities , their very failings and errors , are made by the powerful
Biblical Criticism, And Inquiries And Disquisitions On Ecclesiastical History.
BIBLICAL CRITICISM , AND INQUIRIES AND DISQUISITIONS ON ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY .
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On the Character of Epaphroditus . Seneca and Epnphroditus , men highly distinguished by their virtue-and talents , flourished in the court of Nero , when Paul was the
prisoner of that emperor ; and it is a matter of some moment to know whether the doctrine which the apostle taught made any impression on the understanding and heart of those men .
in the letter which he sent from Rome to the Philippians , ii . 25 . Paul thus writes , Yet I supposed it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus my brother and
companion in labour , and fellow-soldier , but your messenger , and he that ministered to my wants . For he longed after you all , and was full of Jieavine&sbQcause that ye had heard that he had been . sick . For indeed he was sick nigh unto death :
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influence of God to contribu teul Umately to their good : they are thereby instructed in the : know . ledge of themselves , they are pro , perly humbled by the discovery
of their own weakness , and train , cd to that becoming spirit of con , trition and returning repentance which is represented as giving joy to the angels in heaven . He who
maketh the wrath of man to praise himy is not deficient in wisdom and power , to make the failings of his children , in this imperfect state of human nature , redound
at last to his' own glory and to their good / 7 ZERO .
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but God had mercv on liim ; and not on < him , but on me also , lest I should have sorrow upon sor . row . I sent him therefore the more carefully , that when ye sec him again ye may rejoice , and that I may be the less sorrowful Receive him therefore in the Lord
with all gladness , and hold such in reputation : because for the work of Christ he was nigh unto death , not regarding his life to supply your lack of service toward me . " Towards the
beginning the writer asserts that the Gospel was made known in all the palace and at the close he presents the salutation of some that had become Christians in t ' *
household of Nero . In the above paragraph it is clearly implied that Epaphroditus hazarded his life to supply such things as the apofrU *
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42 d On the Character of Epapkroditm .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1811, page 420, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2418/page/36/
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