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female children are wholly maintained , because it is my happiness to reside near one of this character which is so conducted as to
prove , in Mrs . Cappe ' s language , 4 C a real blessing . " With much esteem for her and for yourself , I am , Sir , Your constant reader , N .
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Additional Thoughts on the Fall . Plymouth , Aug . 20 , 1814 . Sir , May I request you to insert the
following Thoughts on the Fall , in addition to those you have inserted in the Repository for July last ( P . 390—397 . )
When expressions are employed by the writers of ancient books which convey a doubtful meaning to us of the present day , there can be no fairer mode of criticism
with respect to such expressions than to compare them with similar ones which have been employed by the same writers . Now , if we think for a moment , what could
the writer of the book of Genesis mean by putting into the mouth of Adam tbe words , iC I was afraid , because I was naked' *
we must be at a loss to affix any meaning to them . There is nothing in the story which can lead us to suppose , that the sin he is there said to have committed could
induce any shame on the ground of his nakedness , nor does it offer any reason why he should not appear before his Maker till he had provided for himself some kind of garment . I am therefore led to believe that the writer
meant something different by the words from what we at first sight tnppose .
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There are several places in scri pture where this very extraordinary expression is used ; but in these cases the use of it is definitive , and it is not possible we can mistake what the writer intends by it . In Exodus xxxii . 25 , it is writ . ten 9 And when Moses saw that the ptople uere naked ( for Aaron had made them naked unto their
shame among their enemies ) , <^ c 4 The crime of which they had been guilty , and on account of which it is here said that the people were naked , is related in the preceding verses ; it was the crime
of idolatry , the worshipping of the golden calf , which Aaron had made from the golden ear-rings 6 l the women of Israel . And , we are informed in the following verses , that those who committed
idolatry were put to death for their sin . - - 2 Chronicles xxviih 19 , For the Lord brought Juddh low , because of Ahaz , king of Israel , fdr he made Judah naked , and tram *
gresssed sore against the Lory . Of this Ahaz we read in the be » ginning of the same chapter , that " He walked in the ways of the
kings of Israel , and made also molten images for Baalim , " that " he burnt incense in the valley of Hinnom , and burnt his children in the fire , after the
aboiriination of the heathen . " ' The only passage I shall add to these , is in the Revelations , xvi . 15 , Blessed is he that ivatcheth and keepeth his garments ; lest he walk naked , and they see
his shame . The subject of this very mysterious piece , still more mysterious than is the third chapter of Genesis , is , however , clear enough for us to know what » meant by it . It is therein repT ^
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546 Additional Thoughts en the TaIL
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1814, page 546, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2444/page/22/
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