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• T stance , ( which phrase I do not comprehend to what it alludes ) not to go up to Jerusalem at certain intervals , to attend upon the Temple worship , " &c . This opinion is ; to my judgment ) a conclusion but a posteriori ; having
observed it to have been a maxim by modern persuasions , such as the Mahometans and the Catholic Christians , to visit , at least once in their lives , the sepulchres of their prophets , or the living Numen and Summits Pontifex * this induced some to think it was
originally also a maxim with the dispersion of the Jews , to visit Jerusalem and the Temple once in their lives at least y but of which we have no authority whatever . Some individual Israelite might have undertaken a
voluntary journey to Jerusalem , and then , being in the walls of it , became obliged to observe all the rites peculiar to it , like any of the inhabitants : but returning from it , he became freed from those rites , ( as shewn bf fore ) .
I shall conclude my reply with a general inquiry ; and with a reluctant will , as wishing not to give any offence to theological critics . I also candidly request their attention with the sole views of information . The doctrine
of the sacrificial laws , congenial to the vulgar dogma , viz . the shedding of animal blood in the different forms and orders of sacrifices , as being absolute laws , has become so prevalent and promulgated , that numerous volumes
have been written in support of its adoption . In short , I see the zealous defenders of that doctrine grasping on every trivial difficulty or authority arising from some ( thpugh only ) historical accounts , to turn the same to
their own account ; and yet , overlooking entirely the many great and essential difficulties occurring in Scripture itself : I mean the contradictions respecting the absoluteness attributed to the sacrificial laws , which we meet
With in the prophetical books , contrary to that of the Mosaic code , so as to reconcile them . For surely these ought to be the chief views of theological critics . Not to impose ( Mr . Editor ) more
upon your patience , I refer these critics to my " . Discourse on Sacrifices , " in which they will meet ample arguments on that subject , deduced from Scripture itself , which prove the ambiguity of the vulgar opinion concerning the
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same . But as long as these scri ptural contradictions are not reconciled , I pay no attention whatever to historical accounts or Rabbinical sentiments , when they disagree with Scripture . S . BENNETT
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Sir , Chesterfield , Nov . 5 . 1817 . rjlHERE are few subjects upon JL which the real lover of Christian truth enters with a more lively interest than the criticism of the sacred volume , and few which afford such a
delightful and endless variety of employment to the mind . In this view , it must be a source of no small satisfaction to many of your readers , to observe the illustrations of obscure
texts which are occasionally inserted in your Repository j and there can be little doubt , that if your Correspondents were more frequently to direct their attention to subjects of this nature , ( many of whom , it is well known , are admirably qualified for the task , ) theological science would be a considerable gainer .
It was with pleasure that I read Dr . Alexander ' s Criticism on Philip . ii . 5—11 , inserted in your Number for the last month , ( p . 614—617 , ) though , 1 confess , I am not prepared to pronounce upon it the same unqualified eulogium , which it has already received from the ingenious
"author of Illustrations of the Four Gospels . " The attempt is certainly commendable , and the interpretation has , no doubt , the merit of originality ; though I am far from being disposed to give it my unqualified assent , or to adopt it as the true explanation of the
passage . It is the distinguishing peculiarity of Dr . Alexander ' s rendering that it attributes to the verb rfyeo ^ a ^ a sense different from that which it lias been supposed by all former interpreters to bear , and one which gives the passage quite a new turn . With your permission , Sir , I shall endeavour to prove
that this sense neither harmonizes with the rest of the clause , nor is authorized by the usage of the word in other instances , ' Hysopoii is frequently found in the writings of Paul , and , including the passage at present under consideration , occurs no less than six times in the Epistle to the Philippians , viz .
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678 Biblical Criticism . —Remarks on Dr . Alexander on Philip , ii . 5 \\ %
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1817, page 678, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2470/page/38/
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