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attended with * tlie mcnne ® of rrtuch labour and blood ; but this shall be like # fire which suddenly consumes . For suddenly , without tumult , without loss , without either labour or danger on the part of the Hebrews , the Assyrians shall be consumed by an angel . No flame could so quickly destroy them .
The , praphet now goes on to point out the illustrious monarch , in whose reign this miraculous deliverance is to take place . ** For unto us a child is born , unto us c son is given , and the government shall be upon his shoulder : " vef . (>? The birth of a male child h here
foretold , and that child heir to the throne of David . His royal descent is suffix ciehtly indicated by the assurance that * ' the government shall be upon his shoulder /' iC And his name shall be called—"
He shall be - « - ? This mode of expression is sometimes used by Latin and Greek , as well . as Hebrew writers , merely to denote the character or qua < - lity of a ' person or thing . See the Note to Monk ' s Hippolytus , ver . 2 , -with the reference to Porson . See
also Heyne * s Note to Virgil , Georg . II . 238 ; and for examples in the Old Testament , see Gen , v . 2 ; Deut . xxv . 10 5 Isa . lxi . 3 ; Jer . xi . 16 , &c . In the present case it may denote that
the epithets which follow are to be applied as titles of distinction to the person who forms the subject of the prophecy . " Wonderful , Counsellor , the Mighty
Gody — " In " The Monthly Repository" for February I endeavoured to shew that these words are improperly translated in our common Bibles , and that they ought to have been rendered ¦
* ' Wonderful in Counsel , a Mighty God ; " taking the word ^> tt in the inferior sense in which it must always be taken , when applied to any being except the great Supreme . To justify this interpretation of the word h& , I
iiiust here request the reader to turn to Ezek . xxxii . 21 , where he will find it u& $ d in the plural number , in a state of regimen with aniaj * " The strong among the mighty , ' literally , " the Gods of the migh ty * " ( ramnj * t « , jffeb . oi yiyctvreq , Vat * potentissimi robustorum , Vulg ., ) ** shall speak to him out of the midst of hell / ' The person 3 of whom these words are de-
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scriptfre vai » fie 4 $€ feased nionarchs of the earth , whomthe prophet represents as in the act of addressing Pharaoh on fris descent into the * regions of the ^ rave ; The whole of the passage bears a very strong
resemblance to the fourteenth chapter of Isaiah , in which the destruction of Babylon is foretold , and a iiafc picture is drawn of the reception of its in o ^ narch by his brother rulers in the un * seen world / c * . HeU from beneath is
moved to meet thee at thy coining ; it stirreth up the de&d for thee , even all the chief ones of the earth : it hath raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations /* Isa « xiv . 9 .-r—Qn comparing these two passages , it will be found that the persons who
are styled , by the prophet Ezekiel , " Gods of the Mighty , " are no other than an assemblage of deceased monarchs . Surely , then , it need not excite oiir surprise that another Jewish prophet should apply to King Heze * kiah , who was , next to David , the most illustrious and favourite monarch
of the Jews , an epithet . which . is thus indiscriminately extended to the de- ^ ceased rulers of Heathen nations . " I am fully satisfied / ' says Dr . Carpenter , €€ that these magnificent titles would produce no such impressions , as are now received from them , in the
minds of those who early understood the original , and were familiar , from childhood , with the language of eastern magnificence . We have it from authentic records , that among the
kings of Syria , about two centuries before Christ , the appellation God was commonly employed as a kind of surname of their kings . Among other instances , we find that in the year 17 % before Christ , the Samaritans sent an
embassy to Antiochus , with this inscription , * To King Antiochus , Illustrious God . Vrln like manner we meet with these titles of Chosrocs , a Persian monarch , about six centuries after
Christ : * Chosroes , King of Kings , Ruler of the powerful , * Lord of the nations , Sovereign of peace , Saviour of men : amon !? the Gods a srood and of men - among the Gods a good and
eternal n ^ an , among men a most illustrious God y Glorious ; Conqueror , ' &cT Could persons , accustomed to sucKl appellations and epithets of princes , have considered ev ^ n the appellation of Mighty Gody ( when applied to one who urns to be born , whose go-
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1824, page 224, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2523/page/32/
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