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really no medium . If the magistrate interpose at all , let him interpose comp letely . Do not divest him of half his character : punishment even falls more strictly within his province than reward . His duties are , without doubt , extremely momentous and useful , but
never so estimable and so useful as when they are in the greatest degree simplified . And innumerable facts declare that a ree government , like pure religion , is essentially injured by the attempt to unite the kingdoms of this world with the kingdom of our Lord and of his Christ .
Acts viii . 33 : * In his humiliation his judgment was taken away . " The inquiry which arises here is , of what kind of judgement does the sacred author speak ? Is it a judgment with the power of exercising which the Messiah was invested , or that which
the Roman governor passed upon him ? A very respectable commentator , the Dean of Litchfield , * says , " Judgment was committed to him by the Father ; and his right to
exercise it took place from his crucifixion : but this judgment was suspended for a time , H Kpivu ; clvts yp&'q , and was not to be exercised in plenitude of power , till the times of the Gentiles should
be fulfilled / ' Now such a view of the passage I consider as erroneous , because , in the first place , the verb aipo does not bear the sense of suspend . I appeal to the Lexicons , for the Greek writers , both sacred and profane , to the use of it in a subsequent clause of
this same verse , ocipsTat ccttq tv )<; yv )<; yj y ^ covi a-vTs , This life is taken from the earth , ] and to the meaning of the word in John xi . 48 , " Romans will come , and take away \ a , psa-w ~ \ both , our place and nation : " secondly ,
The Vulerate and Castalio . in loc . lhe Vulgate and Castalio , in loc , have , " judicium ejus sublatum est : "f thirdly , the phrase C H Kpio-u ; ccvts 9 does not necessarily mean " judgment exercised by an individual , " but may
signify " judgment , or judicial sentence , pronounced upon him : " Jer . xxx . 13 ; Isaiah xlix . 25 [ both m the LXX . ] ; John xii . 31 : fourthly , the note of Mr . Wm . Lowth ( father
Woodhouse on the Apocalypse , 306 , &c . + See an apposite passage in ^ Eschin . contra Ctezlphontem , $ 10 , sub finenu
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of Bishop Lowth ) on the parallel verse * Isaiah liii . 8 , is sensible and pertinent : " We do not read , " says he , " that imprisonment was any part
of Christ ' s sufferings : so I think the marginal reading is to be preferred ^ He was taken away by distress and judgment , or it may be rendered , he was carried aiuay to execution by tyrannical oppression , and a sentence
of conde ? nnation : " lastly , Mr . Dodson [ Transl . and Notes on Isaiah liii . 8 J assigns good reasons for adopting the reading of the LXX . and of Luke in this clause : and , on the whole , it appears most reasonable to understand the
prophet as foretelling the actual and personal sufferings of the Messiah , when he was arraigned at Pilate ' s bar ,. and when his condemnation was extorted by the violence and clamour of the Jews .
1 Cor . xiii . 11 : — when I became a man , I put away childish things . " The writings of every valuable author , if they are of any extent , will contain incidental remarks , that may be applied to ends of great importance . This is one characteristic of Paul ' s
epistles . We have an example of it in the language before us , which he employs with an immediate view to the illustration of the subject and the argument that he is here pursuing , but which , considered even by itself , implies a truth of no trifling weight in reference to morals and religion . In
these words he teaches us that every age of our mortal being has its appropriate pursuits and manners ; that our inaturer years ought to be distinguished by our having put away childish things ; and that this is especially requisite as to our faith , worship and behaviour in the character of Christians .
The apostle is treating of those miraculous gifts which , for a valuable yet temporary purpose , were communicated to the first believers , and which not a few of the converts at Corinth unhappily abused . These powers , so magnified and so exercised , were , in Paul ' s judgment , childish things : and he directs the views of his readers
to the manly endowments of the heart and life , to that pure , evangelical love which comprehends within itself every virtue : nor , even in our own country , and at this advanced period of time , liave many who boast of their attachment to the gospel ceased to be chiU ,
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Notes on a few Passages in the New Testament . 161
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1821, page 151, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2498/page/23/
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