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one . Mary remains at the grave ; she weeps , she looks into the septilehre , she perceives the two men in white garments , she does not even reflect that they weYe not there before , and they ask her why she weeps . Without thinking of angels , or of any thing supernatural , and solely engrossed by the loss of the
body , which she wishes to take to another sepulchre , in case it was not allowed to remain there , she says , * the body of her Lord is taken away , a"hd she knows not where they have laid him , * and she goes away . Is there in this conduct any conception or hope of a resurrection , which could create all this in the brain ?"—P . 171 .
A brief memoir of the learned commentator is prefixed to this interesting volume : among other curious facts , it is noted as one , that Michaelis , who on his visit to England had made acquaintance with Or . Franklin , greatly outran the American patriot in his prognostics
of independence for the colonies . So early as 1 / 41 , he had completely settled the matter in his own mind , and was regarded by the worthy Doctor as a " complete visionary . " Michaelis died in 1791 , aged 74 . ' ¦
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Art . Mil . — The United States of North America as they are in their Political , Religious , avid Social Relations . Simpkin and Marshall .
1828 . This work contains a good deal that is interesting , written apparently from personal observation , and in a spirit of candour . But what are we to say to the author ' s acquaintance with the subject when we come to certain portions which treat of the various religious sects among our Transatlantic brethren ? As a
curiosity in its way , and as a specimen of what prejudice or ignorance can do , we give the following extract , though our Unitarian friends , on the other side the water , may think some apology due for its appearance on our pages :
" A particular mention ought to be made of a sect which is daily becoming more numerous in the Union , and is greatly adding to its numbers from the higher orders of society ; I mean the Deists , or , as they call themselves , Unitarians , * who at present have their
* " Unitarian ism in the United States , especially the western , is pure Deism , and not , as in England , a partial belief in revelation /*
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Afcf . VI . —The Burial and Resurrection of Jesus Christ , according to the Four Evangelists : from the German of Michaelis . ftatchard . Svo . pp . 352 . This is a new translation of a very interesting treatise on the Resurrection , by Michaelis , and its brevity and simplicity of style , familiar illustrations , its perfect fairness , and , above all , the
extraordinary degree of acuteness it displays , will render it valuable to many readers . The investigation of every circumstance , even to the minutest , which lias any bearing upon the grand fact of the Resurrection , seems to place us , as it were , on the spot and among the actors of that eventful period ; a new light is thrown upon many obscure passages , and here and there a striking reflection ( though always put forth carelessly , and not as essential to the author ' s main
purpose ) occurs . Thus , in the exposition of John xx . 11—18 , th £ appearance of Christ to Mary Magdalene , there is the following natural account of the state of mind in which she goes to the sepulchre , and his own inference therefrom .
" We may collect , from the direct beginning of the history to this point ,, from what the other evangelists relate of the three women , and from the simplicity of the narration itself , that the resurrection of Jesus is not the invention of premedi tated hope . The resurrection was not a subject of hope , for , as John says , they did not understand the Scriptures , and
knew not that such an event was predicted . Mary Magdalene comes with others to the sepulchre , they see it , contrary to their expectation , open , and without a stone . She perceives that it is empty , they are at a loss to account for it , and without thinking of a resurrection , they conclude the body to have been taken away . The feet that the
sepulchre was open , unguarded , and empty , could not be a question of imagination , and the only one that remains is , and which might very easily be answered ( if Jesus were not actually risen ) , ' Where has the body been carried to ? ' Mary Magdalene does not remain with the other women , but hastens back , and
brings two men : certainly very judicious in her , but even these men , who had no previous thought . about the resurrection , find the grave empty . They go home , the one in a state of confused thought , the other , conceiving that there must be something in the resurrection of Jesus , but not mentioning his thoughts to any
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1828, page 337, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2560/page/49/
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