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tion and advantage * was accused of excess in social pleasures , and of a love of conviviality . His address to the multitude , on these subjects , is a perspicuous illustration of the phraseology on which I am remarking . It should be added that Col . ii . 16 , in Newcome ' s translation , serves to elucidate the clause in Matthew . —Christianity prescribes temperance in all our secular enjoyments , without enioinine abstinence .
2 Cor . xi . 25 , « — a night and a day I have been in the deep *" Paley supposes , [ Hor . Paul ., in loc ., ] " in an open boat / ' The ^ su pposition is admissible . But I judge it still more likely that the apostle here speaks of his being " on a raft ; " a situation of greater paril and inconvenience . On the ; sea-coast in the vicinity of Tarsus , and in times when the art of navigation was so imperfectly understood , this specific kind of danger would be experienced by the indefatigable missionary . Gal . iv . 10 , 11 , " Ye observe days , and months , and times , and years . I am afraid of you , lest I have bestowed upon you labour in vain . '
A presumption of the strongest nature that the Epistle to the Galatians was written before the destruction of Jerusalem , and by an author in the circumstances of Paul ! But this is not the only use to which the passage may fairly be applied . How different is Christianity from Judaism ! Not indeed as to its evidences , its author , and the object of worship that it holds forth , but in respect of its spirituality ! Sabbaths , new moons , fasts , years of Jubilee * make no part of the dispensation of the gospel . My meaning is , that Jesus Christ
and his apostles demand from us no such observances , as belonging to the religion which they promulgated . Instrumental duties , it is true , will never be slighted by any well-informed and consistent follower of our Saviour : Judaical seasons and ceremonies , however , such a disciple of him will not countenance . Theories and systems which pass for Christianity , should be estimated by this test : many of them are manifestly Jewish ; exhibiting the genius of the ceremonial law rather than that of Christ ' s religion . 2 Tim . in . 6 , " — silly women . ''
The term in the original is remarkable , yvvotiY . api' % . I know not that our own language possesses any corresponding diminutive . Such a diminutive , nevertheless , we find in some of the continental languages , as well as in the Latin word muliercula . * The French Genevan Translation , of the date of 1747 , employs in this passage the expressive noun femmelettes , which I recollect to have seen in Montaigne ' s Essays : in the last Fr . Gen . N . T . it is not retained . Luther has weiblein , and Diodati , donnicciiiole . The
classical and theological student should be referred to Wakefield's Transl ., in . loc ., and to his Silva Critica , Pt . i . § liii .: that ingenious writer says , Hoc nomine designat apostolus homunciones levibus anirnis , pravos , et sine sensu judicioque ; qui maloru n * hominum artificiis se ludificari temere patiuntur : A % < ii 8 *^ scilicet , ovk bt Axa , iov <;—Vere Phrygios , neque enim Phrygas t ut cum summis poetic loquar . " Newcome and the Editors of the Impr . Vers . have " weak women ; " and this perhaps is the most admissible English rendering .
Heb . vi . 20 , " - — whither the forerunner is for us entered , even Jesus . *' In this passage of the New Testament , and in no others Jesus Christ has been styled " the forerunner * ' firpotyo ^ tet ] of his disciples . Yet the character is real and momentous , and the figure eminently impressive and animating . Our risen , ascended , and exalted Lord , has passed into the
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Notes on Passages of Scripture . 845
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1829, page 845, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2579/page/29/
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