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Joshua xxiL 22 : " Jehovah God of gods , Jehovah God of gods , " 2 Chron . ii . 5 : ** Great is our God above all gods . *'
Ps . cxxxvi . 2 : "O give thanks uoto the God of gods . Ps . xcv * 3 : ** For Jehovah is a great God , and a great King above ail gods . " Dan . ii . 47 : " Your God is a God
of gods and a JLord of kings . " In like-manner-lie is called in Gen . xiv . 8 : " The most high God . " Ps . lvii . Q ,: * I will cry unto God most high /' Ps . Ixxviii . 35 : " The most high God their redeemer . "
Dan . iii . S 6 : " Servants of the most Tiigh God . " Mark v . 7 , Luke viii . 28 : " Thou Son of the most high God . " Actsxvi . 17 : *« These men are servants of the most high God . " Heb . vii . -1 : " Priest of the most
high God . " Eph . iv . 6 : " One God and Father of all , who is above all ; 6 ear * tzclvtchv . As , therefore , our heavenly Father is so many times declared to be God
over all , or the most high God ; and our Saviour never is in any other place , it is not credible that this passage refers to him , but to our heavenly Father .
6 . It would be very derogatory to the honour of our heavenly Father , to apply these words to our Saviour in an unqualified sense , as it would make him superior to the Father ; for there can be but one who is most high over all . Therefore , if Jesus Christ is over all , the Father cannot
be so . Some of the Christian father ** were so sensible of this , that they 44 pronounced it rashness and impiety to say that Christ was God over all : " and one person was excommunicated for asserting it .
That great man , Origen , says , " It is allowed , that as in the great multitude of believers who admit of difference of opinion , there are some who ay that the Saviour is God over all :
Imt we do not say so , who believe liim tfhen he said , * My Father is greater than L " ' Priestley on the Person of Christ , III . 260 . Winston ' s Primitive Faith , IV * 15 . Therefore ,
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7 . If , after all , it could be proved that these words refer to our Saviour Jesus Christ , they must necessarily be taken in a qualified sense , that is , as God , or a God , over all men and
angels—agreeably to what is said in Eph . i . $ 0—23 : " He raised him from the dead , and set him at his own right hand in the heavenly places , far above all principality , and power , and might , and dominion , and every name that is named , not only in this world , but
also in that which is to come , " &c . Also Philipp . ii . 8—1 O * But these things will not prove our honoured and happy Saviour to be the Supreme Being : for he himself says , in Matt , xxviii . 19 , " All power
is given unto me in heaven and in earth . " But who ever gave the Supreme Being any thing ? See Job xxxv . 7 * "My Father who gave them me is greater fha-n all , " John x , 29 . 4 t My Father is greater than I , " John xiv . 28 . ** Ye are Christ ' s and
and Christ is God ' s , " 1 Cor . iii . 23 . And chap . xi .-3 : " The head of every man is Christ , and 'the head of the woman is the man , and the head of Christ is God . " Therefore , though all things are or will be put under the Lord Jesus Christ , ( Ps . ex . ; 1 Cor . xv . 24—27 >) yet ,. as the apostle wisely
and very cautiously adds , it is manifest that Ct he is excepted who did put all things under him , " that is , under Jesus Christ . And at length this apostle assures us , that Jesus Christ will deliver up his kingdom to God , even the Father , and become subject himself unto him , that Ged the Father " be all in all . "
It is strange that so many sensible Christian ministers can read this passsjfge so often at funerals , &c , and yet not see the inferiority of the Son to the Father . O prejudice and worldly interest , how great is your influence ! It is surely mere trifling , and utterly
unworthy of men of sense , and especially of scholars , to assert , that what is said under the last head , and such like things , concerning the inferiority of Jesus Christ to the Father , merely relate to him as a man , or as a Mediator . The Sacred Scriptures know nothing of such extraordinary language . JOSEPH JEVANS .
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634 Biblical Cnfccwm , —Mt . Jevans on Rom . he . 5 .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1818, page 634, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2481/page/34/
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