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person by a voice from heaven in me presence of these Gentiles , in like manner as he had before been at his baptism , when he commenced his ministry among the Jews * Lastly , if the supposition which I have mentioned before be thought probable , that the Greeks were
imniediately introduced to our Lord upon their request being offered to him , and that they were present at the delivery of the things contained in these verses , and at the answer of the divine voice from heaven , we may observe how well suited to their case are the chief matters that were now
delivered ; and I think this circumstance of the suitableness of the subject to their case , and to that of the whole Gentile world , * » seems to confirm the supposition , that they were immediately introduced , and heard these things spoken : and if so , they
would go away fully satisfied by the testimony of the divine voice from heaven , that this Jesus was truly a divinely commissioned person , who always spoke and acted under the direction , and with the concurrence of God , They would have learned
from him himself , that the benefits of his gospel were not intended to be confined to the Jewish nation only ; but that a grand revolution was shortly to take place in the state of the moral world . That the empire of sin in the universal prevalence of idolatry was
to be overthrown , that the world in general should be brought over to the faith of Christ , and the profession of his gospel , and that all this should be effected by means of his death and its glorious consequences . What could be more suited to the state of the Gentile world , or more joyful
infor-* It may also be observed , that the subject * here chosen by our I-ord * appear to seaside the supposition of Croitis , quoted by Schleusner , as your Correspondent H , T . has noticed , that the " EXA'Wvis here
were JeMs living- out of "Judea ' and Speaking-Greek } for the introduction to Jesus of sueh . persons would never suggest to him the idem of the comprehension of ' * all men ? * V . F .
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mation to these pious Greeks , provided they only understood it rightly ? That the Jews , indeed , who were present , did not understand him , appears plainly from the nature of their objections against what he had spokes , which were raised on a quite different
footing , ver . 34 , &cu And indeed it was not fit they should ; they could not have borne it , but would have immediately grown clamorous and outrageous in the highest degree * if they had apprehended a declaration that the Gentiles were by the gospel
to be received into the church of God , or that the gospel was to be published to them at all : as they afterwards did , when this began to be done by the apostles . But yet our Lord , who spake as never man spake ,
might so adapt the manner and eir * cumstances of his delivery to the Greeks , as might lead them to apprehend sufficiently his true meaning * though he thought proper to conceal it from the Jews *
However , let us not cease to adorg the infinitely good God , the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ , that he appointed his Son to be a light to lighten the Gentiles , as well as the glory of his people Israel ; that we behold the happy progress towards a
completion of these glorious predictions , in the subversion of idolatry , that empire of the prince * of this world 5 that we e » joy the Bgfct of bis gospel , and are drawn to the profession of his faith , in consequence of his being lifted up from the earth in bis
death upon the cross ; of bis glorious resurrection from the dead , as a public pledge and pattern of the temxnm tion of all men ; and of bis exaltation to glory for this express purpose , declared by himself , " that where h « is * his faithful followers may it * due time be . " Let us then be carafulto
secure to ourselves this character , by faithfully obeying his precepts avid imitating his example ; relying om the full aceottipKsfcmant of his promise Unit , at the time appoiated by our common Father , " jhe will come again and receive u * unto hiaawalf , that Where he is , we may be afe <» i " VIGIUW POSTHUMUS .
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Biblical Criticism : * ± -On John xii . 31 , 32 . 269
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1818, page 269, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2475/page/45/
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