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523 Notes on Passages of Scripture .
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mences January 1 , A . U . 754 / ' This distinction is essential . By the authors of " L' Art de verifier les Dates" the birth of Christ is placed in the year of Rome 748 ( 3 d ed ., Vol . I . 98 ) : and Mr . Mann , *
who wrote a Dissertation expressly on the subject , assigns Herod ' s death to 75 O > and our Saviour ' s birth to 748 . Such a coincidence of opinion between the Master of the
Charterhouse and the learned Benedictines to whom I have just referred , is extremely memorable . I shall not Conclude this note , without remarking on a passage in Tertullian , C adv . Mareion . IV . Ch . iv ., )
which has frequently been cited by the oppugners of the authenticity of the introductory chapters in the several gospels of Luke and Matthew . " Finis ergo duceadus est contentions , pari hinc inde nisu fhictuante . Ego meum dico verum , Mareion sumn .
Ego Marcioms adfirrno adulteratum , Mareion meum . Quis inter nos deternainabit , &c . ? " Thus much , and no more , has generally been transcribed , from this chapter in Tertullian , by the writers to whom I have alluded
rBut they should not have stopped here . The African father expressly claims to have antiquity and current reception in his favour ; nor was the question , whose copy of Luke was genuine—Marcion ' s or Tertullian ' sa simply personal question . ** Quis
inter nos determmabit , nisi temporis ratio , eipraescrihens autoritatem , quod antiquins reperietur , et ei praejudicans vitiationem , quod posterius revincetur ? In quantum enim falsum corruptio est veri , in tantum prsecedat nccesse est veritas falsum /' Afterwards he says , " that his [
Ter-* Of Nicholas Mann some account Is given in the Literary Anecdotes of the Eighteenth Century , ( Vol . 11 . 165 , 705 , &c . ) : and we would gladly have known more . On looking into the Catalogue of Cambridge Graduates , I find " Nic . Manp , " of King ' s College , who took his
Bachelor of Arts' degree in 1703 , and his Master ' s , in 1707 . The two Dissertations before me—the one , on the true year of the birth , the other , on that of the death of Christ—appeared , together , in English , in 1733 ; in Latin , in 1742 . Mr . Mann was no slave to human systems of literature , science and theology .
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tullian ' s ] own copy was the more ancient , because Mareion himself did for some time receive it . " * So far as Tertulliaa and Mareion were concerned individually , the matter in dispute could not with
readiness be settled . Their respective assertions determined nothing . Tertullian proceeds , accordingly , to employ arguments , of the force of which his readers will form a judgment . John xx . 31 . " " These are written .
that ye might believe that Jesus is the Christ , the Son of God , and that believing ye might have life through his name . " Such was the object of all the evanerelists . and not of John all the evangelistsand not of John
, only , in drawing up memoirs of their Master . Their design , however , and their manner of accomplishing it , have been mistaken . Lessor represents Eusebius as giving the following information , from a work of Clement of
Alexandria , in respect to John , " that he had written Ttvzvf / . a , TiKov tvccyyzhiov , a gospel which treated especially of the divine nature of Christ , the others being principally employed on his human . " Toj / * * laocwyv z < r % anrw arvv&ovTa , on ra ( tgoiaoltikoc cj / rotg evccyysXioi s ^ a ^ XcoTai , TrpoTpaTrevra vkq tccv yvwQiiAOdv , tzvbvUvOcti ^ iocbop ^ 6 evrocf >
KVEPiAaTiKOv JTQiY }< ra , i evccyysAiop . What is there concerning the divine or even the human nature of Christ in the words thus quoted ? It is not Clement , it is not Eusebius , but Less , who introduces these topics , and makes this unwarrantable distinction
between John and the rest of the evangelists . Take Lardner ' s J more faithful , though not faultless , rendering of the passage— " John ,
observing that in the other gospels those things were related that concerned the body [ of Christ ] > and , being persuaded by his friendL and also moved by the spirit of God , wrote a spiritual gospel . "
By crcofxaTiKa . are intended tit-ing's corporeal , things falling under the report of the senses , and connected with the senses : a spiritual gospel , isvEviAocTwov Bvayythiov , is a gospel * Priestley ' s Hist , of Early Opinions , &c . IV . 104 .
+ Authenticity of the New Testament , &c . 147 . I Works , ( 1788 , ) II . 212 .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1824, page 528, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2528/page/16/
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