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BIBLICAL CRITICISM.
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seriousness and solemnity of your manner in prayer , and your impressiveness in preaching ! How do I wish that endowments of such value were consecrated to those views which I have received !—But I feel myself getting on tender ground ; it is difficult to
word such a wish without appearing arrogant or impertinent , or presumptuous , and yet nothing is farther from my heart than either of these feelings : believe me to be with sincere regard Yours , my dear Sir , J . R . STOCK . P . S . I know not whether it may be deemed unnecessarily minute to add
Biblical Criticism.
BIBLICAL CRITICISM .
Observations intended to illustrate the Discourse of Christ , john xn . 23—32 . May 10 th 9 1817-DODDRIDGE and other commentators suppose , that the discourse of Christ , contained , in this
passage of Scripture , was spoken ; in the presence of the Greeks , whose application to Philip , to be admitted to an interview with Christ , is mentioned just befpre . That it arose out of that application is evident ; but it does not appear from the narrative , either that the applicants accompanied Philip and
Andrew , when they brought the message to Jesus ; or , that he , immediately upon receiving it , went to present himself to them . It is natural , therefore ,- to conclude that the discourse was not spoken in the hearing of these persons : indeed , it has much more the air of a meditation of Christ on the admission of the Gentiles to his
kingdom , than of a discourse devised for the instruction of the individuals here mentioned . It will serve to illustrate this passage , if we suppose that Jesus ( who
was certainly in the temple during the greater part of the day when the application appears to have been made , see Matth . xxi . 12—17 ) , was at the time in one of the inner courts of the
temple , into which no Gentiles were allowed to enter . Of these there were several , to which all Jews , and , we suppose , all Proselytes from the Gentiles , who conformed in all respects to Jewish observances , had access . . The first court was usually called , the
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that , during the inquiry , I have looked into Doddridge ' s \ Rise and Progress , " and . read through " Scott ' s Force of Truth , " and the Letter connected with it in Newton ' s " Cardiphonia , " and Newton ' s " Narrative of his own Life , " but it is my wish to omit nothing . I
ought also to state that once , and but once , I have entered another place of worship ( Castle Green ) , when Mr . Thorpe repealed a Thursday evening Lecture on the Trinity , but this produced no conviction at that time , although the recollection of it has perhaps been useful to me since .
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court of the women , because they might go iio further , except when they came with sacrifices ; within this was the court of the children of Israel , where the sacrifices were
offered , and the ordinary services of the temple performed ; the upper part of this was the holy place , where none but priests might come ; and beyond , was the holy , of holies , which only the high priest might enter once a
year . All these courts were enclosed by a wall , or ( as Lightfoot thinks ) , by an open space between two walls , called the Chel ; and on the outside of the whole , principally on the south and east sides , was the court of the
Gentiles , occupying all the rest of the mount or platform , on which the temple was built . Into this court , it is to be understood , all Gentiles might enter , whether they , were Proselytes , or devout men , or Idolaters .
But Josephus , in his Jewish War , Book v . chap . v . relates , that " as you went through this ( namely the court of the Gentiles ) into the second temple , there was a stone wall that encompassed it , of three cubits high , of very curious work - , in which stood columns ( or tablets ) at an even
distance , some in Greek and some in Latin letters , giving notice of the holiness of the place ; that no stranger must enter within the holy place under pain of death . " See A ntiq . Book , xv . chap . x . Now as there seems no good reason for dpubting that the Greeks spoken of in this passage , were ; ( agreeably to
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434 Biblical Criticism . S ~~* Observati # iis on John xii . 2— -32 .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1817, page 484, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2467/page/36/
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