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ftegi $ itoiy ,. wttat ha < M > S&a just fcefoi * i&fcftfea pfe * ftiv * Iy 4 as in V * r . 5 and So . This d > vr * te& wtet might bS said re * * p cttrrg the apostles performing the greatest part toward * the
accomplishment o f his reformation B Jesus says to filir afi&tffes X *} v ^ i $ ^ a s Svvoc crifa tfQisiv aSsv . John xr . 5 . and the whole chapter , and chap . xvi . shew that this relates jto the Moedom of Christ .
Whereas in the Mosaic institution , all the prophets that succeed d Nloses acted without any direction from , or , power communicated by him . Of Isaiah Mr * Simpson says ( 13 ) :
*• Foretelling the advent of the great representative of Jehovah , who spake ami wrought miracles in his name , and uttered the precepts and doctrines which the Most High immediately communi cated to him , he calls the Messiah by the names Jchorah , Elohce , and Adonai . **
Tbte position of the respectable Essayists , as it now stands , is destitute , we think , of sufficient proof . There is no evidence of Je&irr Christ ' s being ever called Jehovah . The language of the inspired writer , to whom the appeal is made , [ Isaiah } will ,
turely , be best explained by such te ^ ts to Luke vii * iff , — " they glorified God , saying that a great prophet is risen up among u $ > and tfcaft ( xOd hath 1 kited his niople *" ffl&b would argue from mis pj&tf . Wge that our Saviour has the t&me of God ? The distinction
of the Brings spoken of and the reason of the phraseology , are alike obvious . In the style of tcripture , and , in particular , of sacred prophecy , the Deity is represented as himself doing that which be does by Vis instrument * .
Tinker is not the least necessity ttai'tiibre for interpreting of Christ jftef-tetiafty ike clauses | kaiah 111 . $ k % ** prepare ye th « way of tebrtrafa , make ttmil in the desert
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& highway for our God : " tfiiey are descriptive solely of Hlwr who came to bis people Israel by f the ministry of the Messiah . And
the same reasoning applies to Isaiah lx . 1 : the glory , of Jehovah % is the glory under which he appeared in Christ ' s character , doctrine and tthdeVtkktaor ~
A sfeort but v » ¥ uabte Essay follows ( Vltty whicli has for its titley " A Dissertation on the meaning of the lasi clause in He * bre ^ s \< 2 . * Mr . S » consi < fers
« he proper translation of the W 6 t 4 & fo s koci r& $ cuwvccf 67 foiy )< reY \ o be ( 1 O 1 ) , ° by whom also he contfi * tnttd the age \ namely of the Mes * siafi ; eminently distinguishe-d for moral and religious advantages * ' *
lliis veFJiort- of the passage is exlremely weW Jllostratedj ^ W ^ aif ^ almost disposed to ddd * incontrd-i vertibly established . J . 0 . 51 u chaeHs * wastrnneasoiiaWy perplexed as 10 th'e sense of > t& $ ato&vm .
The ninth Essay is"Otftfe signification of John viii . 53 / ' To the generally deceived trans 1 atian ^ © f the sentertte itow AZpaag , Y 8 fk& + Sxi syev eLpt trifs Wtttet ' objocW that they leave it in itsorigmal
elli-ptfc&l and obscure state take £ i { M in a sense dfifcrent from its most coihrtturt ? te ^ eptatioii » and from the mearriftg which it bear * in this very chapter , and also ex * hit > it the 58 th verse in contradict
tion to the 40 th verse , and to otl ] rer parts of Scripture . Hetheri employs the aid of sound efitieJsm to confirm the exposition uftu&lly given of this clause by the Uttitsu rians , to prove thatk decl&tas « h * previous appointment oi Jesuts to
? Intiod . to N . T . \* . a $ 5 . 8 m Gtotlus , in his Prefatory &tta « tjfal « ii ttitRpiitl % cq tfu n $ \** m .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1813, page 793, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2435/page/41/
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