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suffering himself to be touched by a woman who had been a sinner ; in John (* ii « 4 ) it is Judas , one of the disciples , * who murmurs at the expense ; and our Lord ' s vindications of himself on the two occasions are quite different .
Nor is the other supposition better founded , namely , that Mary Magdalene and Mary , the sister of Lazarus , were one and the same person . That they were different persons is clear from these considerations : 1 st , Mary Masrdalene was so called from a town
situated on the shores of the Sea of Galilee ; Lazarus and his sisters were inhabitants of Bethany , near Jerusalem . 2 dly , Mary Magdalene is several times named with other women , who attended our Lord in some of his jour * neys , and came up with him from
Galilee to Jerusalem , at the last passover ; but Lazarus and his sisters resided at Bethany , nor do we read of any attendance which either of those sisters gave our Lord , except at the place of their ordinary residence . 3 dly , Mary Magdalene is particularly mentioned with others , whom our
Lord had miraculously healed of their infirmities ; and out of her , it is said , went seven demons ; but nothing of this kind is either said or hinted , of Mary , the sister of Lazarus . Thus does it appear , that Mary Magdalene was not the same with Mary , the sister of Lazarus ; and much less was she the same with the woman mentioned
in Luke , the 7 th chapter . f Such , * Matthew ( xxvi . 8 ) says u When his disciples saw it , they had indignation , " &c ; and Mark , ( xiv . 4 , ) " There were some that had indignation within themselves , " &c . ; but tht * difference involves no contradiction .
t It is truly surprising , that both Dr . Whitby and Dr , Priestley , though both possessing right views o " u this subject , should still retain so much of the vulgar error , as to give the name of Mart / to the
woman mentioned iu Luke . Dr . Whitby says , " This Mary was a woman of that c Jty > i . e . either of Nain or Capernaum , the only cities mentioned here ; whereas Mary , the sister of Lazarus , was of no city , but of the town or village of Bethany . " Ur . Priestley has this note on Luke vii . 67 : « This city was certainly in Galilee , jor Jesus was not yet gone to Judea ; and jnerefore this Mary could not , as some « ave supposed , be Mary , the sister of
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then , and so unfounded , is the supper sition in question . A more unfounded one , your readers will , I think , agree with me , never entered into the head of the most fanciful theologian , in the
darkest times of Gothic ignorance . When your poetical correspondent reads the above , he will , I ara sure , regret that he has contributed to perpetuate an atrocious calumny ; and I will venture to hope that , in future , he will seek subjects for his muse , in the rich fields of nature , and in tlie
pages of authentic and well-ascertained history , instead of having recourse to suppositions , which are at once unfounded and injurious . I conclude with recommending him to read a beautiful little paper of Mrs .
Cappe ' s in her " Reflections on the Public Ministry of Christ" ( sect . xxiii . ) ; and Dr . Lardner ' s " 'Letter to JonasHamvay , Esq . /'* from which , indeed , part of the above has been abridged . — , '
* Inserted m his Works , Vol . Al . ovo ^
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A Query . Sir , JESUS is reported to have said to his disciples , previous to his ascension to heaven , that there were t €
things written in the Psalms concerning him . " ( Luke xxiv . 44 . ) , If some one of the learned and candid writers , whose contributions adorn your miscellany , will state which are those passages in the Psalms wherein
the writers can , by any obvious and unstrained mode of interpretation , be considered to have had the future advent of the Messiah in view at the time of composing them , he will confer a favour on one who is ALMOST A CHRISTIAN .
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A Query . —*• So help me , God ! " 395
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Sin , 1 HAVE been struck with a tri <* of circumstances similar to each other in one respect , but exceedingly unlike in others , which have taken place within a few years , and which will
Lazarus , who was of Bethany , near Jerusalem . Nor is it at all probable that it was Mary Magdalene . " But where , it may be asked , is there a particle of evidence to prove that her name was Mary at all ? As well may we suppose k to have been Martha , or Anna , or any thing else .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1825, page 395, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2538/page/11/
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