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and Luke xviii . 19 . " If ye had known me , Qx * , ) ye should have known my Father . " John xiv . 7 . "He that loveth me , Q * O shall be loved of my Father . " Ver . 21 . "As the Father hath loved ? ne , (> O so have I loved you . " John xv . 9 . " Ye have not chosen me , (/* £ , ) but I have chosen vou . " Ver . 16 .
" But , " says your correspondent , ** suppose the sense to be , ' Lovest thou me more than these love me V the Greek is correct . " Whatever the drift of our Lord ' s question may have been , it was far from my intention to deny the correctness of the
Greek ; for though the passage is now wrapt up in obscurity and ambiguity , owing to the imperfection of written language , it was no doubt painfully intelligible to the apostle when first uttered , and accompanied with a tone and gesture calculated to give it the intended effect . I merely observed
that it was usual , when there was a strong opposition , to mark that opposition by inserting the pronoun and gave this as a reason ., not for denying the possibility , but for questioning the probability of the correctness of Doddridge ' s interpretation . I will now venture to add , that , if this had been the sense intended , the other
apostles who were present , justly anxious to remove the imputation of being less zealous and sincere than Peter in their attachment to Jesus , would have been unanimous in endeavouring to free themselves from the consequences involved in such a comparison . When Christ said , during
the last Supper , in the presence of the twelve , " Verily , I say unto you , that one of you shall betray me , " they " hcgiui ^ vert / one of them to say unto him , Lord , is it I ? " evidently with a view of eliciting some remark which would lead to their exculpation : and it appears to me highly reasonable to conclude , that a similar effort would
have been made in the case supposed , to place their attachment to Jesus above the possibility of suspicion . But , as it is possible that I may still labour under some misconception
respecting the passage which it has been the object of this and my former communication to illustrate , I shall still feel obliged to Mr . Cogan or any other reader of the Mon . RQnos ., who
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will be kind enough to offer some fur ther remarks upon the subject O . . P . Q .
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288 Mr . Co / fan on Scripture * reUting- to the Heath * f Christ
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blR , nPHE communication of your cor-_ JL respondent T . F . B ., in your last Number , ( p . 211 , ) brought forcibly to my mind an observation which I had made to a friend not a week
ago , which was , that the Unitarians , while they have endeavoured to shew the absurdity of the popular doctrine of the atonement , have not sufficientl y urged upon the public the true interpretation of the phraseology on which
it is founded . This interpretation will , I conceive , be found in the Sermons of the late Mr . Kenrick . This able and excellent man has satisfactorily shewn , " that the death or blood
of Christ has no efficacy in removing moral guilt , but that , whenever it is spoken of as procuring the forgiveness of sin , it relates entirely to restoration to a sanctified or privileged state , which in the language of both the Old and New Testament on raanv
occasions is expressed by the forgiveness of sins / ' Sermon XIV . Vol . I . Thirty years" ago I was led to doubt whether the death of Christ and the forgiveness of sin ( in the usual sense of this expression ) were ever associated in the minds of the apostles , and Mr . K / s Sermons have convinced
me that my doubts were not groundless . To many , I am aware this declaration will appear strange , and will seem to indicate a wish to dispose of a plain Scripture doctrine by any expedient . Against strong prejudices it is not easy to reason with effect ; I
would , however , just suggest to such persons the advantages which attend the above-stated hypothesis . In the first place , it is founded upon a truly scriptural interpretation of Scripture phraseology . In the second place , it gives a view of the consequences of the death of Christ which is
conformable to fact . In the third place , it is tree from the difficulties which encumber every schetne of the atonement which the advocates of this doctrine have hitherto been able to devise . While I have my pen in my hand , I will make a remark or two upon an observation which I met with the other day in the Quarterly Review , and which
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1822, page 288, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2512/page/32/
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