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    respondent , * <> n 1 Cor . v . 3 . The Key to that passage , and to 1 Tim . i , 20 . ( 13 * 2 ) , is Acts xxvi . 18 . If to turn men from the pvwer of Satan unto God , consists in bringing thrm within the Christian church , to deliver them over , from

    God , to Satan , is to eject them from that church , either for a time or permanently . In other words , it is excommunication-, it is to disclaim religious fellowship with the offending party and to treat him < tC as an heathen man

    aad a publican . " Matt xvjji . 17 . ' " Our readers will not wonder that Mr . Simpson views the third chapter of Genesis as an allegorical narrative : in his

    explanation of it they will meet with ma " ny pertinent and instructive observations . * Admitting , however , what is most probable , that u Moles collected the historical part of the Pentateuch from several

    bdois" ( 166 ) , we see not how it foflWs that iC this account of our firstgarents , being in the earliest pfcrt of the history , would , of

    cHrse , be figurative . ' - ' The fact w its supreme antiquity , might not prevent it from being literally true : and as such it has been

    interpreted with great ingenuity , though , we conceive , not with c 6 inplete . success , by Dr . lordlier . } According to Mr . S . ( 201 ) , the connexion of Rom . v . 12—19 , in which the apostle uses £ i yocp for */ , in ver . 15 and 17 , " is

    expressive of indecision" upon the pomt of all men dying on account ° f _ the sin of their first parent . f formulary of argument , is " M- Rep . Vol . V , 555 . t Worb , Vgi , * i . wr—as *

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    „ v . _ " -. - ' - VI- : « . « ¦> - ' ' ' ' ^ i *~ J ' ' ' ' " Jti'di't L o . —Sifhpsoifs Essays on the anguage of Scripture * € 7 jf

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    very famiJiar to Paul , especiaMy in the present epistle : and , though it frequently introduces- a condi ~ tional proposition , in a number of instances it stands at the head of :

    declarations of acknowledged fact * or truths ; as in Rom . v . 16 . vi . 5 . xi . 15 , 21 , 24 . xv . 27 . Therefore it is not necessarily ** expres * sive of indecision . " Commenting upon John xiv *

    30 ( 222 ) , our author interprets the prince of this world as meant 66 of the rulers of that part of the world , who came in the person of their emissaries that very evening , headed by Judas , to take Jesus , and to bring him before them in

    their judicial capacity , " To this interpretation we cordially subscribe . It must be extended to John \ ii . 31 , which a correspond dent in the Monthly Repository , ^ understands , after Wakefield , of Jesus himself : the 6 th and 8 th

    verses of the second chapter of the former of the epistles to the Co }* rinthians , are almost equally de- * cisive against this exposition of the words . To the same effect , perhaps , is Coloss . ii . 15 . After an examination of nurae *

    rous passages and a statement and consideration of objections , Mr-S « is of opinion ( 159 ) that scri p * ture affords no proof of C 6 the proper personality , or real existence of such a being as Satan , or the Devil , is generally supposed to

    be . ' * He says , in conclusion , ( 237 ) The notion that any ad * versary to piety and virtue , or that any cruel and malicious being f will be employed to execute tb ^ awful denunciations of God against sinners in the future world ,- i * tti « . .. , . . : .... ' -LlJ U ? v ' iV

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1813, page 679, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2433/page/55/