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Tftfe nem&ffi t | e \ Jewii ^ ijsitmrchs ^ are here i > ii $ foiir Siich of their jiosteiity as shall ptofes ? ttte ^ Sselves believers in the C £ ristian 86 ctrme . From passages in the history of this people the writers of the New Testa ment borrow words and figures to convey evangelical ideas .
We have ah example in 1 Cor , x . 1—15 . The believers at Corinth * were in danger of being led , by the soficitations and customs of fheir Heathen neighbours , into idolatrous practices . In order then to shew them
how hazardous theii * circumstances were , and hdw likely , or , at te&st , how possible , it was for ihen enjoying distinguished religious privileges to commit even heinous siiis , the apostle sets
before their e ^ es tfie transgression of the Israelites in the case of the golden calf , and the fata ! consequence of that crime . Under images supplied by the Jewish Scriptures , Christians are warned against giving any countenance to idolatry . Hence the allusion tot Horeb and its streams . *
I shall take my next instance from the Epistle to the Hebrews : In the former part of this composition the author earnestly cautions the Jewish Christians against that spirit of apostacy and unbelief which proved so
ruinous to inany of their ancestors , in the wilderness , and prevented them from entering into the promised land : and he lays gre ^ t stress on the resemblance , so far existing , between the circumstances of the modern and those
of the ancient Israelites ; comparing " the rest whiph remgineth to the people of God / 9 or to all sincere Christians , with that enjoyed by the Qbedjent Jews , on their settlement in Canaan . But are we to infer hence that this
latter rest was typical , that it was specially intended b y the Supreme j teing to describe arid , as it were , foretel the futygre ' and ! ' jnore glorious tranquillity ? There ifcf ndthhig in the language or ark « me 6 t 6 f / thfe writer ,
secund . ) 409 , This w ^ eyr afely supports ™ e interpretation which Locke suggests of Bphes . i . 10 , * Mon . Repos . V . 555 , 566 ; VI . 38 , 171 > 172 . To jfldge 6 i the apostle's argument , compare 1 Cor . ix > 1 , with » - 'lr thfe latter verse should no * be doomed froift the tentB eh ^|> ter .
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notliirig In the whole volume of the Scriptures ] to warrant this conclusion . The author ' a words are intelligible and bekuttfid , p ^ rtineat &kd fl ^ bl % i £ \ m view them as an illustration , a comparison : nevertheless , it was hot his
design that they should be taken , nor can they without injustice be taken , in any other sense . " In ^ the Christian Scriptures there is a third class of Jewish phrases and * allusions comprehending those which are derived from the situation , worship and furniture of the Temple at Jerusalem .
Paul , speaking all ^ orically , in one of his epistles , styles the Christian community the Jerusalem which is from abtive : * so the author of the letter to the Hebrews calls the Church the city of the living * God \ the heavenly Jerusalem : and , with particular reference to a distinguished spot in the Jewish metiKxpolis , Christians are said
to have come to Mount Sion ; the whole description being an enumeration of evangelical ^ advantages . Of the celebrated place to which | he body of believers in Christ are thus compared the Temple waa the chief
ornament and glory ; the pride of the natives $ and to every eye tike object of signal admiration , f From this beautiful and magnificent edifice our Lord took an image , under which to represent a feet of high importance : for when the Jews asked him to shew a
sign , or sonae peculiar miracle , in proof of his divine commission , he answered , " Destroy this temple , and in three days' I will raise itiupMbmt ' he spake , * ' adda the historian , " t > f the temple of his body" Johaaifi .. !^ SB 1 .
And to this class of expressions we might naturally rdkv those texts in the epistles which describe Christians as the temple of God , or as htrot&ing ' unto an hol y temple , ( Ephes . ii . 21 , &c ., ) were it not far more probable that this language , being addressed to persons converted from Heathen idw 4
* Gal . iv 4 26 ; Heb . xii . 22 ^ * t 0 * $ Virgil ' s pulsum Niphatm , ( Geoijjjnf ^ 3 | J , ) and Juvenal ' s Grains n 6 stfa&i \ ^ J $ ^ % xv . 110 ) . That Mount * StifaUfit& -iflnwfa of the Temple , see in Relaiid / Anticf Sacr . Vet . Heb- ( Ed . S )/ W * ^ Pa ^ ftiL &c . 845 , & <* . VM QiKKm * * ^ ^* l < Wy f % the Be < ttine , & $ . Ch . xkiii . ^ ' : 11-. »•'•/" t Tacit , HtetW . § . ft , 12 . -
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& $ & on Jewish PftTfyste dn < £ Atti ( $ ioit $ in ifte New Testament . 2 f JP ;
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1820, page 217, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2487/page/25/
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