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the , pflics of tfoyMteswaJb , ar *( A en tixely accords with his proper humanity . We are next presented ( x ) with € l . an Interpretatipn of 1 Cor . x . The
3 ^ 4 ^ % following paraphrase will briefly express the substance aijuj purport of Mr . Simpson ' s remarks upon these verses : * £ iCor . x . i . Brethren , I would reroind you , that all our fathers were
under the pillar of cloud and fire , and mlVpassed through the Red Sea -, Exod . xiv . as , to 31 ; xix . 9 , 16 , 18 : ver . a , aed were all thus figuratively baptized iijtp , a belief of tJ > £ diyine authority of Moses ; ver . 3 , and all ate the same ftfod of spiritual instruction ; ver . 4 , and all drank the same divine wisdom .
For they imbibed instruction from Mo . ses * who accompanied them , and who jr iay figuratively be called the rock on which the Jewish Church was built ; and the anointed of God . since he was
solemnly , chosen by the Most High to be the Mediator between himself and the , Israelites , through whom he corarnuhicated moral and religious direction ^ to them , by whose instrumentality fee formed and established the whole
J ewi ^ h institution ; and whom he ^ 6 al ijKJf . in , an extraordinary manner lor his distinguished office , by imparting djvine power and wisdom to him in a liigher degree than was ever before grgmfed ; , to aaj ^ other man . *'
The novelty of this explanation ought not to , disgust our readers , on to prevent them from weighing it a « itb care ^ it isat least unfolded with-ability and learning . s ... la * the next Essay ( xi ) we have V _ * an . * , Kx position of i Cor . xv ;
2 § , ?* which Mr . Simpson translates , * f Otherwise , what will they gain who are baptized for a resurrection of the dead ! If the dead risfcnot at all , why also are they
ptungsfi ? into calamity for their resm ? r €££ ion f ( ( ar + for a re&urrcc tjim ^ qfi [ the d qad ? " ) f 4 Thi 3 jpa § sfrg < fc is , after all , bbm ^ WfM W ^ caw admit th ^ proprie . ty © f thejn mtW * ' -iv £ wtich the
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Essayist supplies the elipsis i « bath questions * But we canfiot easily believe thiat Paul , having employed the word baptized in its literal sense , instantly uses the same term in a figurative meaning , and this without any change of subject ! He is speaking , all
along , of the redirection of the dead : and we imagine that his aim in repeating his inquiry , is to give it force * From Luke xxtv . 45 , 46 , as Mr . S . with truth remarks , it it has been generally inferred that the resurrectioiY of the Messiah ,
on the third day after * his decease , is predicted ir * the tMd * Testament" He cancrive ^ h ^ vrfever ^ that no clear predibtioiiof tbis fact can there be found ; « nd he obesrves , * ' The soppositioil that sucht a / . pi ^ pfeecy ' nmst to somewhere ia the Qld , Testamerrf ^ pro
bably , originated froro-Ws being taken for panted , th&t sJcpyByowit rat * in Lufce xxifc . f 4 & . refers to the subsequent p ^ rt of tHat frerse . ** Thqse words he consumers , in his twelfth Essay , as - relating to tvhat precedes in < ver . 44 and 45 . Accordingly , he thus translates and
points the passage : , , <« Thcrt life opened thfcir mind , that they might understand the Scripturc * j and said unto them , that -dpis'lt ' ls wr'ftte ' ri , And so it was nc ? cc ; ssary tjjat the'Cbriii < should siifler ; artd should rise again from the dead the third day . *
This is a ver ^ ha ;^ py -exajnpls of elriiiendatory ' criticisjn , ia U * simplest form . The succeeding Essay :, ( xiii . ) is C € on tfce meahing of Mp k iii . 21 . 1 Timothy i . 1 . 1 . Hebr > w 9 xi . 3 . Of these texts the first receive frcftrV TVIr . Sthis tranalktion ;
, " And wheti his owri feirnily n ^ 4 of 9 t 9 the / Went dtiip to cbitstrain hirh ; fbr tfhey sftW hfe # ill faint : V
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^ 94 ^ WW S&& $ piZ * < > j 84 $ as * m He Lakguagt of Scripture .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1813, page 794, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2435/page/42/
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