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preposition here used . From theconuexion , we should be led to suppose that the death of Christ upou the cross was ratfcer represented as the condition and means of the con version of all men , than merely pronounced to be Dot inconsistent with it : a * ad
the following * word * might perhaps express the sense of the passage eaore correctly > " And I , if owce I be lifted up from the earth , will doraw all naen after me . "
It will now appear that thi& discoarse is closely connected with the application of the Greeks to be admitted to see Jesus , and we a * e naturally Jed to make the following remarks upon it . Our Lord does x * ot receive their application , as at an earlier period
of his ministry he had done that of the Sy rophenician woman , fey saying 1 , " I am not sent except U > the k > s £ sheep of tfce house of Israel , " He plainly intimates tha £ the time is come , or is fe ^ t approaching , when Gentiles , will
be received into the number of his followers , \ t ha < J been the object of his personal mieistry , not to admit tfee Gentiles , but to set open the door for their admission ; not to form a church of the believers i » his nrare *
b ** t only to profwre . teachers foy whon % the members , of his ttwreh might be collected : feis waa a life of labour a « d griaf and rqjeetiqa j he w $ » to end it iu ignoraitty and pain , \ and he was to Wave \\ t $ others % o tekfopwc with success * a ** d to raise tfce glorious temple of which he was t&e founda ^ tioj * and chief corner-stone . Tfet& i&
in agreement \ vith those worcfe of Christ to his disciples- ; John iv « 37 * ^ Hev « aft is that sa-yteg true ^ o »^ so wet h and another re ^ pe ^ bi . I sent yau tp reap that wkwon y « tve ^ o > wetl 1 * 0 labour ^ other « t ^ to hoiifed ^ awj i ?
y ^ are entered into theiUbourtiw" Tl % Dai ? w « may likewise r « fcr the woud « , John , xiv . 1 ^ * Verily * verily , I 2 * 93 * unto ^ you , he that heYwMHh o « i |^ the works that I do ^ h ^» shall 4 d rtfeko ^ ajxd grea ^ e ^ w . Q # k s Un ^ th 9 W « bAtt he < to ^ because I go v >« W wiy « l *«* th € » k "
But tfecu ^ h h ^ w ^ e ^* bject l ^ lbose restrictions during his life Wk Q&ffeh * he anticipated with joy , a time quickly approaching , when he should be freed from them ; when the Gospel of the
forgiveness of sins should be published with power to the whole world , in hu name and by hw apostles . " I am
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the good shepherd , and know toy sheep , and am known of mine . As the Father knoweth me , even so know 1 the * Father , and I lay down , my life far the sheep . And other sheep I have which are ttot of this fold ; them also n * ust I bri&g , and they shall hear my voice , and there shall be . one fold ajatd o « e shepherd . *'
ThiM * , Mr . Editor ^ I have concluded the observations which I proposed to make on this interesting passage : if you think them worthy of insertion in the pages of the- Repository , I would beg for farther information from any of your correspondents , on the following , points .
1 st . Schleusner in his Lexicon , &c . under the word ^ EXXt ^ v , cites this passage ( i . e . John xii . 20 ) , a » an instance in which the word is intended to describe ** a Jew living out of Palestine amongst Gentiles , and using the Greek language in reading holy Scripture . " He considers this as the 1
only instance ofthe kind * and acknowledges that the passage is very doubtful and ambiguous . On what grounds is this unusual sense of the word supported ? And what arguments does Ciroius , quoted by Schleusner , bring forward to prove that the personshere Bnentiouecl were Greek I *
roselytes ? 2 dly . I am in want of more distinct information than I have hitherto met with , pn the subject ot Proselytes ta Judaism . Were there different classes of tkem ? Or were not all required to coniojrn& to all Jewish rites : and
particularly to the initiatory rites of bapAiscob and circumcision > l ^ ardner and Doddridgfe maintain this : and the pertinacity with which the Jewish CJbrisiiaas insisted upon the circumcision of Gentile converts to Chri ^ .
tenuity , seems to pvove that they had known oi tto other terms of admission to the privileges of true religion . Then , did the Jmv » admit their proselytes , who observed all Jewish ordinances , to the same privileges as a native Jew ; or dMl they require even proselytes to
sfcauy behind in the court of b « Gentite ^ ^ Thu last can hardly be supposed , though possibly ) there might be some restrictions imposed upon them . Lightfoot produces som ^ pas * sages from the Talmudists , from which it appears that the Rabbins held Proselytes in great scorn , though they might
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Biblical Crfr&sm ^ -Qh $ ervati < ms on > JoAw x \ l $ 3—3 $ . 4 B 7
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1817, page 487, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2467/page/39/
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