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622 Review . * mRen David ' s Reply to Two Deistkal Works *
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Acts xxi . 27 , * They laid the hands upon hii % u . e . their hands upon him . ' A Greek epigram has % & > % av * # « $ to ? vqvv cbqtov TroSa , * Thou hast the mind lame as ihe foot , thou hast thy mind lame as thy foot , them art lame in nrind as well as in feet / Th ^ Cyclops in Lucian , com * plainiug to his father Neptune of the injury done him by Ulysses ^ sHfs ,
Kaff-< ropiararo (* & T $ > wofJLax ^ ' he overreached me b y the name , i . e . by his name / the wily traveller having given Ovtj * instead of O % v < r < rev <; as his name , which proved ihe means of saving him from destruction . Let us apply this to one of tlie many cases the full force of which
lias been overlooked by the critics , 2 Con viii . 8 : ^ We toe sent with him the brother , whose praise in the gospel is throughout all the churches , —we have sent with him our brother , whose praise by means of his gospel is throughout all the churches / The brother here meant
is Luke , whom Paul calls a fellow-travellef in the next verse . It was natural that , as Luke had written a gospel or a iuemoir of his divine Master , and , as he accompanied the Apostle Paul in establishing the Gentile Church , he should
leave a copy in the possession of each church . And here we are very incidentally furnished with a happy testimony to the early existence of the Gospel of Luke , and to the estimation in which the author of it was held for hie fidelity and truth . "—Pp . 286 , 287 .
The author afterwards maintains that the Gospel of Luke was not only known and alluded to , but actually ** copied by Paul / ' He founds this novel opinion on 1 Cor . xv . 3 . " We have seen that the A postle speaks of the Gospel of his brother and
fellowlabourer , ( Luke , ) as praised in all the churches . A Gospel thus known to and valued by all the churches , must have been equally known to and valued by Paul himself . Now 1 observe , and t make the observation with pleasure , that the Gospel of Luke was now open
before Paul , and that the above paragraph written by him is but a transcript from it , in substance exactly , in words nearly , the same : and that it is to the authority of this Evangelist that he alludes when he says , * For 1 delivered unto yon , among the chief things , what
I also RpcBivpD , or what I ateo have taken * Turn to the twenty-fourth chapiter of Luke , and there you will find what be has taken : ~ r- And he said unto them , These are things which I said unto yin vvkile yet with you , that all things must |> e fuJfflted which were written in the
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of sins must be preached m his name among all the nations / The narrative of Luke implies that our Saviour died—that he was buried , —that he rose *—that he rose the third day—that he died and rose according to Moses , to the Psalms , and to the Prophets , i . e . according to the
law of Moses , and in the Prophets , and iu the Psalms , concerning me . Then he opened their niind that they might understand the Scriptures . Thus it fa written , and thus the Christ ought to suffer , and to i ^ se a gai n from the dead the third day ; and repentance and the dismission
Scriptures—that repentance and the dismission of sins was to be preached in his name to the nations : and these are precisely the things which are attested by the apostle . It is to be observed , that Paul mentions « according to the Scriptures * twice : and the same words are twice
implied in Luke . u was not usual with the apostle to designate his divine Master simply under the name of * Christ ; ' but here he so designates him , and designates him once : he is designated , and only once designated , under the same naine by the Evangelist , Finally , Luke ia the only
Evangelist who says that Jesus , after his resurrection , appeared unto Simon % and that , after appearing unto Simon , he next ^ appeared to the rest of the disciples . This is said , and sard in the same order , by Paul , that he shewed himself to Cephas , ( Simon Peter , ) and then to the twelve . " —Pp . 251 , 252 .
We cannot follow Ben David through all his replies to the Objector , but must content ourselves with taking here and there an interesting passage . On the proposed resolution of Jatnes , in the apostolic council , that a decree
should be senl to the Gentiles , that they should " abstain from things offered to idols , and from fornication ^ from blood and from things strangled /' our author observes ,
C The objects of worship among the Pagans , were impure in the extreme . By contemplating and ascribing solemn praise to such beings , the sanction of religion was given to lust and licentiousness ; and their very temples were but brothels sacred to lewdnesg . For this reason
idolatry and fornication were ever associated in the language and ideas of a Jew ; and James here alludes to a passage in Moses , where they are united as Cause and effect : * They shall no mure offer sacrifices to their false gods , whom they follow to commit fornication . Lev . ^ xvii . 7 .
** The Pagaus offered blood to the de ^ mons , and used it as a rite in invoking the soula of the dead . This we find m
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1824, page 622, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2529/page/46/
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