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in what he relates here of himself , " &c . No expositor is more consistent with his own declarations , sentiments and reasonings than Mr . Locke : after having , in the Synopsis , * described it as the business of this epistle " to dehort and hinder the Galatians from
bringing themselves under the bondage of the Mosaical law / ' there was little probability that , in the sequel , he lyould hold forth the purpose of the letter as being personal . Had the writer of the HQree Paulinte , when he undertook to abridge Mr . Locke's remark , substituted for the first clause , what follows , viz . 4 € that St . Paul ' s
sole object in this part of the epistle was , " &c , every thing would have been correct , in regard to statement .
([ concerning the approach of the general judgment , ] but that certain calculations and false prophecies were also applied to the same purpose . " — Further , < c the calculation of
2 Thess . ii . 2 : " by word , nor by letter , " &c . According to Michaelis , t we find here an intimation , that not only epistles were forged iu St . Paul ' s name to propagate this error ,
which St . Paul speaks , and which he terms Xoyoq . " But on what authority has this very ingenious scholar thus interpreted the Greek term ? I . meet with no such authority amidst the profusion of Sclileusner ' s definitions , references and citations ; and though I
am far from maintaining that the expression may never admit and demand the sense of calculation , yet I ask , whether its present import must not be collected from the context , compared with 1 Thess . v . 1 ? Spirit now signifies pretended inspiration and prophecy — word , oral doctrine or teaching , in contradistinction to " by letter , as from us . " 2 Thess . ii , IS . Ib- ** as from us , " Upon which clause Paley J puts , as a question , " Do not these words , fo quay ,
appropriate the reference to some writing whidi bore the name of these three teachers [ Paul , Sylvanus and Timotheus" ] ? Yet I gun doubtful whether the inquiry should be answered in the affirmative . Other letters of
our apostle are written apparently in * See , moreover , his Introd . to the Epistle . t Introd . &c , ( Marsh ., ) IV , 1 Hor . Paul , in loc .
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734 Notes on Passages of Scripture *
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either that John describes a point of time distinct from what his predecessors advert to , when they speak of the women , &c , looking on afar off , or that the Greek term demands here a restricted meaning . There is no faint probability in Mr . Wakefield ' s
opinion , * that those of the spectators who , previously to the act of taking down the body of Jesus from the cross , had been permitted to stand * at jio very great distance from the sufferer , were afterwards compelled to go farther from the appalling scene .
We know , too , that considerable or long distance is not necessarily and universally denoted by the adverb fAOM . $ 0 iy , f which must often be rendered in English , as I would , in the present instance , translate it , by the 5
expression , •* at some distance / I have dwelt on this seeming discrepancy for two reasons : it has escaped the notice of most of the commentators ; and I am not a little desirous of
engaging some of the readers of these jremarks , to communicate their opinion , whether it corroborate or rectify my own . Gal . v . 2 : " — I , Paul , say unto you , that if ye be circumcised , Christ
shall profit you nothing . " In Paley ' s Home Paulince , Art ., Epis . to the Gal ., No . x . p . 204 , [ 1 st ed . J note , the following sentence occurs : " The second reason which Mr . Locke
assigns for the omission of the decree , ( Acts xv ., ) viz . ' that St . Paul ' s sole object in the Epistle , was to acquit himself of the imputation that had been charged upon him of actually preaching circumcision * ' does not appear to me to be strictly true / ' Now Locke ' s own words should have been
quoted ; whereas his supposed meaning is stated in the language of the writer who animadverts on him . As to the object of * ' the epistle , " no rfeal difference of opinion exists between these eminent authors . In that part
of the " Paraphrase , " &c , which Dr . Paiey has in view , fyocke speaks of a single portion of " the epistle , " ( ch . ii ., ) and not of the whole of it : he says , " The mention of the decree was superfluous—and impertinent to the design of St . Paul's narrative here ; and , again , " It is plain that his aim * Comm . on Matt , in loc . \ Schleusner , in verb .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1824, page 734, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2531/page/30/
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