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      clusively appropriated to the highest dignitaries of , religion , and which could only tend to bring religion into contempt ; aad , as his intention was inferred from this tendency r , it required no small interest to effect his liberation .

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      Sir * Jan . 9 , 0 th , 1818 . WHEN you published an " Extract of a Letter from a Friend , *' [ VII . 173 , ] on John xii . 31 , in which the author attempted to maintain the idea of Mr . Wakefield , ( New Translation , ) that the " prince of thte world "

      was Jesus himself , it was my intention , but I know not what prevented me , to have troubled you with some Extracts from a MS . in my possession which appeared to me to throw some just lights upon the passage . Perhaps your Correspondent , H . T . [ XII . 487 , 488 ] , may be disposed to pay some

      particular attention to it , as it will confirm some of his observations , and throw light on some of his querfea . I therefore now transmit it , only just observing , that both Mr . WakefieM and your former Correspondent ap ^ pear to have overlooked John xiv * . > $ 0 P and also | Cor . ii . 0 , 8 ; and that the »« mie of Kpio-i s atfoptetjHn the foltowl flS paper , maty tldssiWKr liaVfe becfn »« ggest 6 # toy Letefr , w * o , to Kis < Crfe

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      mind will he cdiapletely t > e < # ip * ed in arranging the ceremonial of my funeral and if nothing goes wrofrg in the pro cession , he will be quite eonsol ^ for his loss . " Thieufcalt adds * that the event ; proved the truth of t ^ e quee n ' * opinion of her cm # M $ f husbancL

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      tica Sacra , says , " Est autem crisis subita m morbo ad salutem aut ad mortem -mutatio . " V . F . John xii . SI , 3 S . —" Now is thfc crisis of this world , now shall the ruler of this world be cast out : And

      I , if I be lifted up from the earth , wiH draw all men unto-m 6 . " In the 20 th verse the Evangelist informs us , " that there were certain Greeks which came up to worship at the feast , " who , therefore , were pn > - bably proselytes to the Jewish religion ,

      and , from their applying to Philip , who was of Bethsaida of Galilee , a country contiguous to Syria , were ttot unKkely some of the . descendants of those Greeks who settled in Syria under the Syro-Macedonian einpfrfc

      established by the successors of Afefirahdlei * , which fedalfcd m the Bbdk of Maccabees the empire of -thef Gre «* il * : mratry of whotnr haif spread through * girat part of OaWe « , and mtugtod among the Jewk Whett * tt * JLeftl

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      Biblical Criticism . —Ori J <> hn mi . S \ , SZ . ^ 65

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      No . CCCXXX . Prussian Court Mourning . Thieubalt , in his " Souvenirs" of Frederick the Great , gives several amusing trails of the Brandenburg family » In his Biographical Sketch of Freking

      derick the ^ r ^ of Prussia , who was an extremely vain man , and continually engaged in the most frivolous pursuits , he mentions the following anecdote of the queen , Sophia Charlotte , who was a woman of a very superior mind , and the sister of our George the First . In her last illness

      the queen viewed the approach of death with much calmness and serenity , and when one of her attendants observed how severely it would afflict the king , and that the misfortune of losing her would plunge his majesty into the deepest despair— 4 < With respect to him , ' * said the queen , with a smile , "I am perfectly at ease . His

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      No . CCGXXXL The Iat 0 Mr . Henry Erskine . Mr . Erskine ' s character was truly estimable ? and-the just ^ preriatipii of his virtues extended far beyo ^ the circle of his owa family a&d friends ; and it is a well authenticated

      fact , that a writer ( or , a& we dbouM say , attorney ) in a distant pa $ t of Scotland , representing to a » oppressed and needy taeksman , who . had applied to him for advice , the futility of enterin pc into a law-suit with a wealthy neighbour , having himself no means

      of defending his cause , received for answer , ** Yedinna ken what ye say , Maister ; there ' s nae a puir man in Scotland need to want ajri $ n& or Jew mi enemy , while Harry Erskine lives 1 " How much honour does that simple sentence convey to the generous aad benevolent object of it 1

      Biblical Criticism.

      BIBLICAL CRITICISM .

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      VOJL . XIII . 2 M

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    • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1818, page 265, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2475/page/41/