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' . ¦ rudera Tu doce , praeferque lucem , scita mediter ut tua Buchanan .
Ps . xxxix . 4 , Lord , make me to know mine end , and the measure of my days , what it is ; that I may know how frail I am . " This is a better tendering of the verse than what occurs in the Psalter of the Book of Cotnwvon Prayer , * — - let me know mine end , and the number of my days , that I may be certified how long 1 have to live . " The writer does not ask for a knowledge of the specific ntrtnber of the years of his mortal being , the actual term of his individual life : his prayer is for a practical acquaintance with the limits of human life generall y ^ with its average duration ; a knowledge this riot unattainable , and highly essential and important ! See Ps , xc . 10 , where we have the parallel and explanatory passage * * Ps . xlixw 14 , — Death shall feed on them . " It should be , " Death shall tend them : " i . e . as a shepherd tends his ftock . So in the LXX ., Oava-to *; irotfAotvei avrovq ; and this use of the verb is agreeable to its sigittficatie ** rn Ezek . xxxiv . 2 .-J- Mendelssohn gives no very dissimilar rendering , Sie triebt der Tod—•• Death drives them on . " The writer's idea , that of pastoral government and care , is retained , too , in Merrick's translation and paraphrase :
l ( — Death , within the vaulted rock , Stern Shepherd ^ guards the slumbering flock . Eccles . xi . 9 , " Rejoice , &c , — but know thou , that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment . " Commentators differ from each other as to the exact import of this address : some take the former part of it to be ironical—a ' * caustic apostrophe ; ' ^ some deem it an admission that the young may indulge ii ) certain pleasures , if they indulge in them with moderation , and under a sense of their moral responsibility . L have always thought the passage a » example of dignified irony ; because I recollect no texts of Scripture , where to walk in the way of our hearts , and in the sight of our eyes , has a favourable signification .
Matu xi . 18 , ** John came neither eating nor drinking- " This is one of numerous passages , which , if received only according to the sound of the words , and without comparison and inquiry , would exhibit an absurd statement , and provoke the sneers of the half-tbiwkiog . if we advert to the Hebrew idiom , no difficulty will exist . The phrase is elliptical : Isaiah x * ii . 13 . Something must be supplied ; namely , '' . easing bread and prinking wiw —and in the parallel text , Luke vii . 33 , we have the complete form . JPerhaps the Baptist ' s food * in the desert , consisted principally of vegetables . That his life was , for some time ; , retired * and rather ascetic , is certain . On this account , they who were disaffected to Ins office , spoke of his being under the influence of melancholy madness . Jesus Christ , on the contrary , because he mixed with mankind , for their
instruc-* Jortin ' s Sermons , Vol . I 1 F . No . vli . -f Mon . «*?{*>« . Vol . XXI . i * . 4 &O * X Hurd ' s Sermons at Liucolu '^ Ino , ( 1785 , ) Vol . II . p . 243 .
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NOTES ON PASSAGES OF SCRIPTURE .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1829, page 844, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2579/page/28/
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