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Notes m Passages of Scripture * 733
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sinful ? however he may eontleirin the habit ?¦ : Nor > in truth s do our Lord ' * precepts an this head speak a different language from that of his example . * ' I say unto you , that whosoever is angry with his brother without a . cause , shall be in danger of the judgment . " '
Why this restriction , why these words * " without a cause , " if Christianity does not tolerate the apt of anger ? Thus limited , the declaration , hi | | spirit , if not its letter , fully accoiH with Paul * * advicfe , ¦<¦ * Be ye angry an < l
sin not •?' - * - * - * Should ye be angry , take care that ye sin not , dither by manifesting' this warm displeasure without reason , or by indulging it too eagerly and too long / On the words in Matt . w 22 > " Whosoever is angry with his brother without A cause "
Archbishop" Mewcome ( Translatitfii , &c * ia l © e . ) remarks , " If we oitiit aiKYjy with some MSS . and versions * reason must limit the clause * ' * This is extremely well observed . But the
preponderance of authorities ia ^ oHirs the present reading : Griesbaci ^ ? e * taiiis it , accordingl y * in his text % ^ and from his ample and convincing note upott itj in the Commentarius Crtiicus , &c , I shall transcribe a few sentences ,
which are confirmatory of my argument . ' * EtKV ) abest a B * 48 . 198 . Aeth ; Arab . Polygl . Saxon . Vtalg . et patribus nonnullis . Deconsultoomissum esse , nutli dubitamus * Tantus eniin er&t plerorumque veteris
ecclesise doctorum in inoram disciplina rigor , ut non solum to * pyi % , £ < r&du eucy , sed oianem omniiio iram lege Christiana prohiberi censerent . Horuin aliquis to ettcq , velut Christianas perfectionis studio officiens et sanctissimo
nostro magistro minus dignum , suspicabatur in text urn inser turn fuisse ab iis , qui commodior £ vi&in ccelutn pervenire cuperent . Expunxit igitur in suo codiee . Hunc postea alii , iisdera prsejudicatis opinionibus in trailsversum acti ^ sequebantur . ^ *
The New Testament is compara * tively silent concerning anger . I have endeavoured , nevertheless , to prove that it distinguishes between the habit and the k < 2 t : the habit it forbids and
* The whole of the note admirably merits the regard of every theological scholar . In the concluding sentenced of > t a wove re and clignified rebuke is gxfcn to C . F . Matthaci .
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condemns y the act it supposes to be ^ in name circumstaneee , UBavoidliWe , This discussion of the sttbjeclj WiU have answered ; I hope , two other ends : it will evince that the riti is ) n of the
Christian Scriptures may have ' ntn / ttn * important reference to points of ( / bris-. tian morality ;* and it will prove that I do not overlook the intelligent abd respectful communication , which has be % n addressed to the Editor of the
Monthly Repository by A Yonic Stu-^ ENT . 't * John xix . 25 ; ct > ¦ > ^ there stood by the cross of Jesus Ms mother and his mother's sister , Mary the wife
of Cleophas arid Mary of iM ^ j d ^ l a ^ Compare witli this account m&t the other Evangelists have recorded ctm * cerning the same hotir and sp&ct&ele . Matthew ' s language is , [ xxvii . 55 , 6-6 ' j ] " many women were there *
beholding [ looking On ] at a distanfee > Who had followed Jesus from Galilee , ministering unto him : among whom was Mary of Ma : gdala , and Mary the mother of James and Joses , and the mother of Zebedee's children * ' * T&e
narrative of Mark is to the same effect [ xv . 40 * 41 } . Luke tells us , [ Kxiii . 27 , ] that Jesus was followed to Calvary by a great company of
people and of women , who also bewailed and lamented hiai ^ and [ 49 ^ that all his acqtiaintaiice and the women who followed him ' -FROM GA £ lliBfE > stood
at a distance , beholding these things . We learn , moreover , that Mary of Magdala and one of her coinpanibns witnessed their Master's burial . J Here then we have substantial agreement
and undesigned coincidence : what the three first Evangelists have recorded , indicates the high probability of John ' s minuter relation concerning some of the attendants at the crucifixion . One
apparent dissonance , I confess , exists . While John says , " therfc stood by " [ WapaJ " the cross / ' &c . ^ the other evangelical historians use thfc words afar 6 ff \ V M jxnto fjLan § o& £ , Matt . ark ^ —— [ ActyLpoOsv , Lttike ] . I call this an
apparent dissonance , because the slightest reflection will convince ua > 4 There are habits of temper , no lefcs than of conduct . Single and occasional expressions of temper ate like single and occasional acts . f Pp . 60 S , &c . f Luke xxiii . 55 :
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1824, page 733, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2531/page/29/
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