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neetly contrary to the express deelaratioos of Jesus . " While he admits that , from the manner in Which the words era / row , di&gotef , % + ? . A . are used , a general belief of the actual existence of an evil
Sptnt evidently Hemi > , to have prevailed , he understands all these terms figuratively , ' * of an allegorical person * not a real one . " -Notwithstandinor the care and
labour which lie has bestowed upon the subject , it is-still involved , we think , in some obscurity ; and although , we are persuaded that diabvlical agency does not foim an article of revtlati < m , we want
the same conviction of its having been disbelieved by our Lord and his apostles wiiich we possess of their having taught the doctrines of pardon and immortality . ^ The title of this writer ' s third
essay is , in subsvance , " a view q { the different significations of two words in the Old Testament and of -one in the New Testament which , in our English bibles , are rendered heaven . " In distinct
Actions he assigns the several meanings of the term , as follow ; the air or atmosphere , in which are the clouds ; the expanse beyond fthe atmosphere , in which are the sun , the moon and stars ;
the atmosphere and the whole visible universe beyond it ; the supposed peculiar residence of God , and of angels , beyond the visible expanse ; a cloud and fire on Mount ^ inai ; God j the inhabitants off heaven , or a persomfica" —¦ —¦ — -
. ** A Jew would learn from ihe beginning of the book of Job that Satan could not act without God * s per ission and controul : nor would even a divide comimsdcn exempt < 5 f necessity , " those invested wi | $ t ixt ^ kota , certain ancient « rroj 9 »
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tLon of the firmament ; the Jew * ish nation . In other sections h ^ points out the signification of the term heaven ^ heavens , with dif , ferent combination * . Of the inferences which he deduces from the
whole view the most important is that in the scriptures , ** the place in which the righteous shall dwell afver their resurrection , is never spoken of . " ( 304 ) We confers that we occasionall y differ from Mr . S . respecting the arrangement of some ' of the text *
which he has enumerated in rhis essay . With his characteristic modesty , he intimates ( 2 Q 9 ) the possibility of such a difference of opinion . Nor are we c < rjtain that he has not needlessly added to the
number of his sections . On the whole , this like every part of his communications , will materially assist students in the scriptures , at the same time that it reflects cre # dit on the industry and talents of the author .
The fourth essay is an inquiry into the meaning of those words in the Old and New Testament which are equivalent with the English terms angel , archangel , &c . : and into the nature of intelligent angels . It is learned and often judicious and satisfactory . But the chief distinction of it i $
the author ' s endeavour , to shew that intelligent angels or messengers of God are human being * ( 393 , &c . ) who have departed out of this life . This point he argues from considerations to which we shall soon advert . And he
th < -n discusses , but , in our hum-We judgment , does not refute , the objectiorrs to his position . " angel appeared in ( the form of man ,, this . , wafrld , be * ¦ suffici ent reason for the term man bew *
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# 80 Jiemirm . —Simpson ' s Essays on the Language of Scripture .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1813, page 680, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2433/page/56/
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