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Qhefiiturelstate ^ Faith , Hope , and Charity mil remain . " I should rather explain the word ** now" of the Christian ' s probationary condition : it has this ine ^ ning in the twelfth verse ; and surely it cannot in strict truth be said that faith
ajid hope will find objects on which to be exercisecj in the heavenly world . As the apostle , in verse 8 , had contrasted charity , or love , with the extraordinary gifts of tke first believers , and illustrated its vast superiority , so be compares it here with the faith .
and ttie hope which belong , to every genuine disciple of Christ in the usual course of things , and . through all successive ages of the church .. This vie \ y of the passage , seems to bt taken by Diodati , whose translation fal presente ] is very emphatic , by Le Clerc , and by Resenojuller . Af €
fhbishop Newconae coincides with Mr , Locke : in support of their exposition , it may with much plausibility be alleged , that the particle < f now " £ wyi } is illative * as in 1 Gor . xiv . 6 \ yet , even if thus much be granted , a great and , perhaps , insuperable difficulty still attends a comment which , assumes the eternal duration of faith
and hope . * ] 2 Cor * v , 16 . " — though we have kaerwn Christ after the flesh /'—New * come paraphrases the clause thus
' / Chough Christ hath appeared to me on the way to Damascus , and in visions , yet I lay no stress even on this pre-eoiioence . " But this explanation ill suits either the context or the
ac-€ ii £ tomed import of the phrase . The conteai fixes our thoughts on Jewish partialities and prejudices ; and the phrase usually refers to Jewish privu leges and distinctions . Philipp . iii . 4 . 5 ; Rom * i . 3 , viii . JL Locke ' s paraphrase of this language is admirably correct : " If I myself have gloried in this , that Christ himself was
circum-* Whether uiy readers adopt or not this interpretation of Locke ' s , they will hot fail of admiring Ms incompftratjle Essay for the Iff rider standing St . PauVs Epistles , &c .: I am disposed to consider Dr . John JeWs «« Sketch of the Plati of
the Society for Proiftotiti £ the Knowledge of the Scriptures ? as worthy of being placed by its Bide . Until the Sacred Volume lie generally mud led on the principles Ui < J dovvja in tljose two cotoposi * *? && > r l > eplogv : al . Jgjpgwnwand Preju * dice will be triumphant .
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cised as I am , and was df my bfood and nation , I do so now no more any longer . " S © B ^ atby . Gal . v . 12 . c * I would t&ey were even cut off which trouble you /*—The Apostle's meaning might have been deemed unambiguous , had apt commentators given opinions differing from each others ** Separation from of
the religious commui&tj ^ ^ vlujch these i » en were tiee unwoi ^ hy aad pernicious mepaber ^/ ' is the fea designed to be expressed , aad aothing farther .
1 Tim . k- 13 . " <* ive an , attendance to reading /* &c , ^ i . e ^ * say most of the commentators , * ' to the public reading of the Scriptures of the Old Testament . ^ Yei tfce context shews that private readi ng aad study must have been inetactecrla tliis
advice . The fifteeatk v ^ rse surely decisive : for meditation respects private study ; ^ nd public reading ttlcme could not advance Tii » otfey s proficiency . Diodati and Whitby &v $% mang the . few expositors who appear to have seized the Apostle ' ^ Baeamng-. Heb . i . 2 . " — by whom also he made the worlds" f agea ? j r Griesbach , as a critical editor of the Greek Testament , leaves-the text of this passage unaltered . However , in the second volume of his Opus&ula Amde
mica , f he proposes an important conjectural emendation ; because be is of opinion that the present readiug does injustice to the Apo&tte * s sound views of Christian doctriaei Tfeie
dissertation to which I ail tide , bears as its title , , " De naundo a Deo Patre condito per Filknn ^ In the judgment of the learned author , ttere is no other passage 6 f thfc New l ? estament , and none in the earliest and
most approved Christian fcithers , where God is stated to have created the world by Jesus Gtoisfc GrteM ) a | h , therefore , suggNesfcs that forftf ov , $ fo should read &d ^«; and le sttpp ^ tsWa suggestion with considerable ingenuity ; J though bi » arg ? iiiiient& fail
* Moa . Reposw XXI . 452-t Vol . II . 186 , &c . . . j € t Quam emenclatioOTtti uoa nimwi tenacrariam esse jficficabiitit , QUi perpeudent , primd faclilimum fuisse erroreui libraril , loco Tf scribe n I is v , et AIOTIKAr confundentis cum AITTKAI . — JJtunde bo proclivior ad h « nc lapsutn && scriba , qnia Ulud 8 * * qv concordabat W
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1826, page 676, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2554/page/40/
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