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    learned Whit b y understands it as irfe r ^ ing * to , a , certain traditiMU among the jews , ; and , Trypho , the 'Jew , sp early as the beginning of the second . century , represents the notion of the pre-existence and incarnation of Jesus , as not only woniterfu ) -, but very silly , and he reproaches the qhristians for their belief in the miraculous conception . of Christ , which he ridicules

    as a fiction equally absurd with that of Jupiter and Danae . He t'Npre ^ sly says that all his nation expect the . Messiah to be a man , born like other iucn . , Concerning the miraculous conppi \' onf related , ia . the first two

    chapters of the gospels of Matthew and Luke , JMr ; B . says , the narrative ; itself is pi very doubtful au-. fe ! F / 'te » ; . ' ^ fl'US ! e ( J .. ) the Ebionite ^ ospel of JNiatthevv , and the JMaici ^ pite gospel of Luke did not

    , CQiUain . these accounts ; . (? . ) that ! £ comparing the , 1 st . with the . 2 ^ 4 , ve rse ; of , the 3 d chapter of St . Luke's gospel , it appears tha t Jesus w ^ s born fi fteen years befo re tile death of Augustus , that is , at least two years after the death of Heroc ) , a fact which falsifies the whokniarrative contained in the

    'Preliminary , chapters of Matthew afttlJLuke : and ( 3 d ) if the rela-!* ur > , given of the ; miraculous ^ Q ^ ceptian were true , it is utterly uuaceeurxtahle that these very extrao rdinary events , should have hom wholly omitted by Mark and Jiulnw and that there should

    not be asingle . allusion to them ¦ ¦ in the New Testament . To these and other arguments our author mi

    adds , that tl ^ e racult ^ is concep-Uori if true , wau ] (( « o , morc infer && pre . e ^ istencg of , Jesq ^ , ilian tlie tturaculQx ^ foji-fttation of Adarn ^ d ti fryei : 4 k likfy inirgSJljlQV * ' coi ) -

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    ception of Isaac ^ John the Bap ^ tist , &c . In tlie third sectioil , 'Mt .-M sli a m e x a in i nes t h e se verftl " fy ^ sfe age ^ in the New Testa me fit w hith ar&

    concei ve ( I to ex press i rr tiki iiKHt direct and unequivocal tehns ^ thh pre-existencc of Jesus Christ t imd he sets out with observing that of the eight writers of the books of the New Testament , t \ Vo only , viz . John and Paul , advance &i 1 y thing thai can be construed as referring expressly to the pr ^» existence of Jesus Christ , Of ttt ^ other six writers , viz . Matthew ^ , IMark , Luke ^ James , Peter and Jude , who make no direct mention

    of the pre-existent dignity of cfur lord , three are professed historians of the life , the miracles ^ hd the doctrine of Gbrist , arid one Cbmfnues his history to up \ v&rdV ( if th . irty years after our L 6 rd % ds .. censioji ; and rela , ^ many '' -VpL tere . stin ^ particulars of the IiVes , the sufieiings and j ^ e doctr i ne of the apostles ;—^ ^ of the subjects of thc # r preaching , the miracles wiiich tbeV

    pcrfonaed , « ipd the success of tliefr missions . But neither the history nor the discourses of Christ ; nBr ihose of his apostle ^ for thirty yc-ars after his ascension , c . ont& ' rn

    the least hint of his tirc- ^ xi ^ rit state and dignity . He rice /' chit author riaturally infers , thftt ' tlVis total silence cannot be cxlpbdffl&cl , if the pre . exisUnc ^ i / f Cft Ks £ '; iS « fe true , lie farther obs&vcs ^ ^ l ^ t the style of 'JfoWn ind ^ a al ; i ^ Iti many instarices Highly figiiratJH > Thus , in the gospel ^ St /^ lWhft , our Lord sbmetixite ^ u ses tjfre tiife ? 8 phors ^ ofeatin ^^ i ^ ae ^ aricrMiifc :. ing " his bioo ^ - to' ^ i . prtii ^ t | fe ieof his

    coptio ^ tl 6 ctriitt ; : - sWd P ^ in hjs epistle ^ ; > M& $ ix& £ . n \ $ h Uarsh ' ;^ ' a linMp ' fiilftcii , * . ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ : ; /! ¦ ; rf ^ rrr Jno 7 ¦ /•; Jon .- < : //

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1811, page 671, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2422/page/31/