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ver . 16 , and Rom . x . 9 . ] This opinion I no longer hold . I now think that our Lord calls Peter the rock of his church . My reasons for taking this view of the declaration will be found chiefly in Campbell's Lectures on Ecclesiastical History . * It is much hi the manner of Jesus ( Shrist to employ such an allusion : and the author whom I have just mentioned , exposes , beyond all doubt , the futility of certain pretensions erected on this address to Peter . !
Matt . xxv . 35 , 38 , 43 , " — took roe in . " Use has rendered this phraseology ambiguous ; though in the age of King James ' s translators it was perhaps sufficiently clear and definite . I prefer Campbell's rendering " lodge" [ and see Schleusner , in verb , avvoiyu ] . John iii . 13 , " INo man hath ascended up to heaven , but he that came down from heaven . "
M . Maimonides informs us that the Hebrew verb corresponding with ava&awa in Greek and ascend in English , occasionally denotes " sublime contemplation : " Quando quis ad res sublimes et praestahtes cogitotiones suas convertit , dicitur ascendere ^^ This illustration is not in the number of the passages cited by Wetstein , in loc . ; though it has more pertinency than quotations from the Greek and Roman classics .
Acts xvii . 19 , " — they took him , and brought him unto Areopagus , " "Was it to the Court so called that the Athenians conducted Paul , or only to the customary place of its sittings ? Again , was he brought thither as a prisoner , or merely with the view of his more conveniently addressing the people on bis religious sentiments ? On these points there exists a diversity of judgment . They appear to state the matter correctly , who suppose that Paul was not
arraigned , and did not plead , before the Court of Areopagus . In the Forum he had conversed with many inhabitants of the city , and visitors to it : in the Areopagus he made an oration , which , though it be concise and remarkably pertinent , has yet a popular form . Much depended * nevertheless , on the immediate effect of what he now said . Had he not shewn with consummate skill , and with perfect truth , that he was no * setter forth of strange gods , " he would instantly have been subjected to the cognizance of
this tribunal , and lost his life under its sentence . The measure now employed by those who had " encountered" Paul , might be designed as preparatory to a serious judicial process , in the event of his not satisfying his audience that he was no innovator on the established religion of Athens . It was mainly on a charge of this nature , though without and against evidence , that Socrates suffered death at the bands of his ungrateful countrymen . !
' i ¦¦ ' ¦ - i , i ? 'K' 16 ly&c . Yet I am doubtful , whether Peter was " the appointed President of thie Apostolical College . " . . Jv More Nevochim . [ BuxtorfJ p . 14 . J Rengel [ Gnomon , &c ] on the ' verse quoted say $ , peti& tanquamreumduxere . According to M . Henry , the Apostle wag conducted to Areopagus , " not as a criminal , but as a candidate / ' that is , to shew , whether in the jmigineot of the Epicureans , the Stoics , & € ., of Athens , he taught © pinions worthy of being called philosophical . Doddridge ' a view of the case [ Expos , in loc ] seems quite accurate : and thq ^ earned note in Kuinoel [ Act . Apostol . illust . ] will reward an atte n tive perusal . GrotiuS' language is , ** non ad judicium /* &c
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520 Notes on Passages of Scripture .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1830, page 520, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2587/page/16/
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