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    BIBLICAL CRITICIS1I.

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    Mr . John Jones on the Contro * versy on Acts xx . 28 . I respect the name of Gries * bach , and feel grateful for his learned labours . But 1 am free

    to assert , and ready to prove , tbat implicit confidence is to be reposed neither in his judgment as a critic , nor in hU fidelity as an assertor of facts . I will from

    tirtie to time produce -some of those passages which justify fne in this opinion . The following verse which he has grossly corrupted , shews that he was scarcely acquainted with the elements of the Greek

    language . u And confessedly great is the mystery of godliness : God appeared in the flesh , was justified in Ih ^ e spirit , was seen of angels , was preached among the Gentiles , believed upon in the world , and raised in glory , " 1 Tim . iii .

    In thin place the apostle op * pofies those false teachers , who , tinder the pretext of superior was * dom , introduced into ( he Christian church the most monstrous is

    ttiysterifcs ^ object to set tfside & 11 mystery as foreign to fine gospel . As though he had said , * Though we , th « apostles o ^ Christ , reject as false and impious the mysteries taught by our

    false brethren , yet we preach vl docttine whifch , figuratively spetokilig , fe a great mystery . Tlris it tfofe doctfifre of godliness , the siiiu jptc Udfctritre of piety afndf bene-Wteticgv vfltfch so far from being in the strictest sense mysterious , « ete « aeide 4 lH ttiytierfS * To

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    comprehend the justness of ( bis interpretation , it is necessary to observe , that out apostle , instead of directly opposing his adversaries ^ often endeavours to Set aside their errors by applying " gorafe 6 f their words in a different but analogous sense . Thtis hfc sets aside the

    circumcision of the body , by msisting on th 6 ciT ^ mcision of Vfae heart ; he corrects the zealots for ritual observances , by fc&lHng ' tiffin them to be zealots of good ^ piRs ; of the

    he bumbles the ^ ride re . pu ted wise , by admdntshuig th ^ in to be wise u « td salvation ; lie Wftens theignoitimy attached t 6 tfce believers vv \ io were staves , of soldiers , inalkeral sense ^ by h 6 M ! lig them forth at sfaves or soldieW bf

    Christ ; and , finally , he seeWs to supersede the sacrifices of the law by calling on sail good men to offer themselves as a Hviiig and rational sacrifice to Gt > d . In the

    same ardent and elevated spirit he exterminates all mystery ffo ' m the gospel , by designating it as the mystery of godHriests . Mystery in the N . T . means only a figure of ' spierecli , a fact or a moral concealed tinder the Viil

    of metaphors . In this setise 'ttll parables , allegories , and eVen Ikble ^ , are mysteries : And they"kS r ^ mysteries onty so loiig as the nftftte is nbt Explained , at the moral is

    not developed . Thtis otir tiord CiMs tbe parable of the sower a mystery , whrch ceased to be such when explained . Thus too jfye apostle Pattl , in rtie E p istle to the Romatis , tails the conversion oft&e Cr ^ emilesVwh ^ described ixn ^ et tfee

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1814, page 120, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2437/page/48/