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BIBLICAL CRITICISM.
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On Passages in the Epistle to the Htbrtws . Avg . 5 , 1811 . Sir , Through the channel of your Repository I wish , with your permission , to present to public consideration a few select passages
from the Epistle to the Hebrews , with some brief notes and questions upon the same , 1 remain ^ Sir , Yours , &c P . . K . The passage to which I would first direct the reader ' s attention is Hebrews vi . 1 Q and 20— wit Jo
ill the vajl u : kit her Jesus thefore ~ runner is for us entered / ' —Might nottlie original Greek words , corresponding to these English expressions , be more simply , correctly and advantageously rendered inthe following terms ? viz . 6 C within the vail , whither Jesus , our forerunner entered . " Is not rfftfyopog ljttej yj fxcvv equivalent to either itooooo ^ og r ^ uov or TTpo-Sooiaos rj u , eie $ os ? And is not the
simple , general and indefinite term , entered , more proper and correct , in its application to the Aoristic sipjAfJay , than the more definite expression , is entered ? The received version seems to take the phrase ' * within the vail " for that glorious presence of Almighty God into which the righteous enter after death , and supposeth that Jesus Christ , soon after bis resurrection , actually asscended to heaven , the supreme
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throne and most glorious presence of his Heavenly Father , to com . plete his sacrifice or oblation , ^ nd perform , for his redeemed and penitent servants , certain offices ( we know not what ) in the invisible
world : but the version here offered , taking the phrase , " within the vaily' to denote the Christian church on earth , supposeth that
Jesus Christ was its primitive founder , and after entering into it , he continued to preside and walk and act in it , as our forerunner , that is , as our guide , exemplar and instructor , during the days of his personal ministry on earth . Which version is the most true and correct , let the public judge for themselves ; but certainly the latter appears to be the plainer of the two , and perhaps will be found to be the most instructive
and impressive considered in its relation both to the example of Jesus Christ and to the peculiar circumstances and wants of the Hebrew converts to whom it was
addressed and possibly to Christian readers of the present day . To persons denying or doulting the truth of Christ ' s real and
literal ascension to heaven , as Lutherand his earlier followers arc said to have done , very little solid proof antl illustration of that doctrine can be deduced from the
Epistle to the Hebrews , which , while it in scarcely allowed to possess canonical authority , evidently abounds with harsh figures , fictitious analogies and arbitrary parallelisms * ,
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f 482 )
Biblical Criticism.
BIBLICAL CRITICISM .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1811, page 482, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2419/page/34/
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