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r&ittifr * &fe qfitestfon thus : cc If t&o # Sbest not Well * is there not a $ in * ofaring at hand ? ' * But the original wofc-d does not require this version : its more usual sense if'ii *?; and neither the respectable attfhorities which the Dean of Cdfk marshals , nor the subject and the connection , will justify us ini departing , here , from King James ' s translators . Sin , in scriptural' phraseology , is sometimes
the habit or an act of vice ; somethries , by a . very " natural" metonyifay i its punishment . The examples of the term in the signification of $ iin offering , would be more pertinent , were they found m passages which treat of events , &c : pfrior to t fee Mosaic institution
of sacrifice . Our authorVafgument [ LXVI ] on u the comparison between the sacrifice of : Abel and that of Cfirist /* is built , as we have shewn before , on a false assumption ;* the blood of Abel not being the sacrifice w'hfch Abel presented , but the violent death which he suffered from his brother ' s hands . Gen . \ vm 10 , Heb . xii . 24 . What would Dr . M . have remarked
upon any similar mistake on the part of some one of his opponents ? His sixty-seventh number is € i on the nature of sacrifice before the law : tiding to shew its conffttement to animal sacrifice
except irr the chse of Cain . " Now , Allowing' these premises , what follows ? Plainly that there must na ^ e been some reason for the restriction . Gur next inquiry then * 8 » whether any or what reason &ais been assigned in the sacred writings ? - We find none : and we leave Dr . l . to his favourite em' * ' ' • * . . Vol . i * . 494 , 49 s .
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ployment of conjecturing . The truth , however , we take to , be , that the few instances of sacrifice , which are in record , previously
to the promulgation of the law , happen to be those of the sacrifice of animals : they were sacrifices presented by men of wealth , and our Illustrator needs not to be
informed , that animals have ever been esteemed as more costly than fruits and vegetables * Of " the disproportion between the effects of the Mosaic and the Christian sacrifices , " he treats in
note the sixty-eighth . His argument , or rather that of Grotius , in relation to this matter , proceeds on the popular but incorrect opinion that the legal sacrifices , at least the animal ones , were typical of the death ok
Christ . We require positive proof from scripture before we adopt this sentiment . The English word types is found but once in the New Testament , * the
corresponding Greek expression , in sixteen passages . But the scriptural meaning of it is 5 a resemblancc-f&nd nothing more ; whereas in the vulgar acceptation it is " a divinelyintended resemblance . '' And this
distinction is not only realj but of great importance in the present controversy . As to < fc the correspondence between the sacrificial language of the OJd Testament [ LXIX ] , and that employed in the New to
describe redemption by the death of Christ ; and the original adaptation of the former to the subject of ihe latter /* we demand , what Dr . Magee has never afforded , positive and independent pfoof of
? l Cor . x . n . f Marah ' e Lect . P , iit . 113 ? &C . M . Repos . vol . viii , 677 .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1814, page 783, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2447/page/55/
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