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Strauss ^ : pM $ b ££ el # m WaHfahrt > && ] hem hot t ^ riedm ^ riaUy from the com a onii ? aBslatfeis 6 £ the poem . * Jen xfciik 1 ® , 22 . " Who hath 5 t 0 cd ? itt >* tk » i counsel [ in the margin « . « rtt ? p of the E ^ rd * " " — if
they -kad stood in my counsel . " Blayneyy Iri both the clauses , has , " ¦ privy council /* While he gives the import ^ of the original expression , he i 3 so far unhappy in the selection of hfeteri ^ s / that they fall much below the grandeur of the theme . I vtotM substitute for them the words ,
" secret council / ' as being less fainiliar and more dignifiedI ; at the same" Xktiie that they are equally correct . Luke xvi . 8 . se — the children of this world , are in their generation wiser than the children of light . " A
ftw supplemental remarks on the parable of the unjust steward may not be undesirable . f The moral of it has been intimated by the clause which I have now transcribed : the verses that immediately follow £ 9—14 ] , contain our Saviour ' s advice , . founded on the
circutftgtances which he had been representJiig , and adapted to the situation and character of his several hearers . If we attend to this division of the former part of the chapter , we shall more clearly understand the speaker ' s meaning . No regard to wealth , as such , is here recommended : fraud
and dishonesty do not receive here any countenance whatever . Our Lord assuming that , as human nature and society are constituted , * the rich and pqqr" will " meet together / ' enjoins upon his disciples that wise and vhtuous use of what we call property y which Will minister to their greatest Welfare .
* B . iv . eh , i . Vol . II . 230 , [ Trai ^ l . ] t Mon , Repos tXXI . 451 , .
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Perhaps this parable has been misunderstood in consequence of the reader not perceiving that the former clause tif the eighth verse belongs to the stoty . The slightest reference to the context aftd the annotators , would prevent the error , which would be yet
nor the action , but solely the provident care about his future interest , which the action displayed ; a cure worthy the imitation of those who have in view a nobler futurity , eternal life / ' "¦ -:
Acts xxvi . 28 . €€ Agrippa said unto Paul , Almost thou persuadest me to be a Christian . " There is no just reason for looking upon Agrippa as a concealed believer in Christianity , or as insincere in his religious
profession . Nothing that we know of-hiin , nothing which the language , the incident and the chapter before us disclose , will countenance such an opinion . His case appears to have been simply this : he was a Jew and a man of the world—a slave to its bad
principles and customs-T-yet no stranger to his country ' s prophetic books , ' nor quite ignorant , verse 26 , of th £ name and history of Jesus of Nazareth ; and , impressed by PauPs appeal to him , by his narrative , his eloquence and his demeanour , he cannot refrain from declaring his own
feelings , and avowing that he was cc almost" convinced of the truth of the doctrine which the apostle preached . Such a declaration spoke loudly in favour of the gospel , and of its able and intrepid advocate * 1 Cor . xiii . 13 . ' * — now abideth
faith , hope , charity , " &c . Mr , Locke , who in the conciseness of his paraphrases has never been surpassed , explains this clause in the following manner : " But then evqn in that
* Paley ' s Preface ? to " Moral and Political P ^ UoiiQphy , " lavb ed , p x ^ iv V l ( t A ^ opdin . g \ o $ u \ t * Q $ } , m ldc . th ^ mistake ha » pot be ^ n c 6 h )( lned t 6 " W ^ U n ^ ry ^ ers : \* # P ^ s p ^ jllW ldWtfLJ nretibus eat , Cnrwta ^ Ids ^ , (^ MiWiy ' veWJk VcflB ' aMacs ^' puiatii ^''^^ - ^ ' V + 4
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1826, page 675, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2554/page/39/
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