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    t * — curantes ut fiat tota Scriptura clarior et intellects fatnlibt * ; quo magis adhuc dignum sit hoc Dei donum , quod ab omni homine reci { tfEtiir . ' ' ' - f KaacNqs <* TT . Isaiah ix . 5 , " — this shall be with burning and fuel <^ fifc . ' * hrir * Bishop Lowth ' s rendering of the clause is , ] / ' ' ' ' -

    " Shall be [ viz . the garment , &c ., ] fora burning , Even fuel for the fire . " With his characteristic taste , elegance , and correctness , he has illustrated the custom to which the prophet refers , and shewn that the practice of burning heaps of armour , gathered from the field of battle , was prevalent among some heathen nations , and that the Romans used it as an emblem of peace . * To the quotations which this Prelate has laid before his readers , let me add an extract from the life of C . Marius by Plutarch :

    " After the battle , the Consul gave orders for bringing together the most splendid , perfect and beautiful of the arms and other spoils taken from the enemy . These he reserved for the purpose of gracing his triumphal entry . The remainder he caused to be heaped on a pile of considerable size . Then , in the presence of the victorious army , and clothed in the dress of his rank and office , he received a lighted torch , with which he set fire to the pile , and completed his act of sacrifice . " — 6 , " — his . name shall be called , " &c .

    Mr . Dodson , on the authority of the LXX ., and of some of the Christian fathers , has , in one clause of the verse , substituted the words , " the Messenger of the great design . " I can supply a further passage from Eusebius , Prep . Evany . L . vii . c . xv ., where , speaking of Christ , he says , Beov tiwafjuv , Kai Bbqv aocbiav , koli Bbov Xojov , vai ( ayji / kou ap ^ iaroaryjyov fivj / aueuq kvoiqv ,

    peyaky \ i re tovXyq ayyeXov avoytotXeiv aiuOcctri . Matt . xvi . 23 , " — thou savourest not the things , " &c . We meet with the same phrase in Plutarch ' s life of Pompey : oo-oi ra Kap tccvoq Ecppovow— " as many as were favourable to Car bo ' s interests , " or " be longed to his party . "

    Acts xxvi . 28 , " — Agrippa said unto Paul , Almost thou persuadest me to be a Christian . " Chrysostom , f it appears , thought what Agrippa thus said to be mere banter : as though he had remarked , " You little persuade me to become a Christian ! " Upon this interpretation of the phrase [ " almost" ] , where is the significancy of the answer of the Apostle ?

    According to Markland , J the words that I have cited are capable of " many interpretations . " To himself " they seem to be no more than a compliment to Paul , which one might have expected from Agrippa ' s civility . " This critic , we find , puts upon them a construction the very reverse of Chrysostom ' s , yet quite as indefensible . There is not more

    probability m the idea of Agrippa ' s paying a formal compliment to the prisoner than in that of his addressing him ironically and sarcastically . Paul's reply would appear the best possible key to the import 6 f the monarc he s language ; and the repl y is unambiguous , and assumes that some impressibp was () n ^ e , on Agrippa in favour of Christianity ; an effect ^ more concejiifaljH $$ fak Apostle ' s speech regarded fact $ § sufficiently notorious in Judea . -. » ¦ >/

    * Tranal . and Notes in lock « t Vol . Ill , p . 901 > ied : iSavil . ; . umi-i . ^ % . Bowyer ' s Conjcct ., &c , in loe . , ' i ,, // -c i , n . m : - > § With those facts sfgrippa may be supposed to have been particularly well ac-

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    NOTES ON PASSAGES OF SCRIPTURE .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1828, page 668, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2565/page/12/