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privileges of God ' s ancient people , the Jews * were readily adopted by the writers of the New Testament , to describe the state and privileges of those , who , by faith in Christ , had now become the people and Family of God . This remark applies especially
to the apostolical epistles , many of the apparent difficulties in which may hence be easily solved , and the doctrines that have been too commonly deduced from them , shewn to be without any foundation or support . Almighty God was pleased to conduct the descendants of Abraham into
Egypt , and thence , at length , by a mighty hand and an outstretched arrjr , to deliver them from the oppression under which they were held there . ; and , in reference to this deliverance , he is said to have saved them , to have bought , purchased and redeemed
* u _ w Y « * m . « m » them . * " While , by interposing in their favour , he is represented to have bought the Israelites , so , f ) y afterwards permitting them , as the punishment of . - their apostacy , to be led into captivity by neighbouring nations , lie is said to sell them . + Indeed , the 1
terms buyingand selling are so frequently used in scripture in a metaphorical sense , that it seems impossible for a reader of ordinary attention and judgment to mistake their
signification , wherever they occur . J It is in strict conformity with the phraseology so prevalent in the Old Testament , that in the writings of the New Testament , sometimes God himself , and sometimes he whom God
sent , is said to purchase , to buy , to redeem , those who hear and embrace the doctrine of the gospel , and are thus delivered from the slavery of idolatrous and evil principles and practices , to which they were before sold or addicted . § Now as no one
ever imagines that God paid any price , or offered any equivalent to Pharaoh , King of Egypt , or to any other of their succeeding oppressors , when he bought the Israelites , or redeemed them from slavery and captivity , so when such phraseology is employed
* Exod . xv . 16 ; Deut , xxxii . 6 ; Psa Ixxiv . 2 ; Isa . xi . 11 . t Judges ii . 14 ; Deut . xxxii . 30 . J Piov . xxiiL 23 ; xix . 8 , &c . &c § 1 Cor . vi . 19 , 20 ; vii . 23 ; Tit . ii H ; 1 Pet . i . 18 , 19 /
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in the New Testament , in reference tp tho ^ e . who had been free # from the bondage of the Mosaic law , of heathen superstition , of ignorance ot of vice , it ought never to be considered as teaching or intimating , that Jesus gave , or the . Fatlier received / any equivalent , > vitjiout which the salvation of mankind could not have been
effected . When the Apostle Peter speaks pf persons wUo * denied the Sovereign Lord who bought them , " he , moat probably , refers to some who having received the grace of God by Jesus Christ , either abused or rejected it . A comparison of the text with the parallel passage in Jude ,
evmces the justness of this interpretation : and we think , with Mr , W ., that the men , here censured were the Jewish zealots , who are spoken of in every apostolical epistle , as generally displaying an evil character , and as being disturbers of the peace of the church .
The ample and satisfactory exposition , of which we have placed an abridgment before our readers , will prove that sound scriptural criticism is requisite to those who aim at
understanding , inculcating and vindicating Divine Truth . With the phraseology of the . Old Testament the style of the New Testament must be diligently compared ; still more than with that of the classic writers of
Greece and Rome . In the simple form of society , under which the Jewish people lived , and in a language so scanty as the Hebrew , and so characterised by words borrowed frpin
objects of sense , it was extremely natural that the verb buy should be employed to signify the act of p ?* ocuring a wished-for object by means of great labour , exertion and selfdenial : nor can we with reason
wonder that the secondary meaning of this verb is vastly comprehensive . On consulting oue of the passages to which Mr . W . refers , we perceived , not without pain , that King James ' s translators , Lovvth , Dodson and Stock
render the original word { buy ) by ths English term recover . The text alluded to , is Isaiah xi . 11 ; in respect of the just interpretation of which clause it would seem impossible to entertain a doubt . It is much to be desired that a translation of the Bible be as literal as is consistent with re-
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Review . —Wellbehved ' s Sermon at Hull * 239
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1824, page 239, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2523/page/47/
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