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MISCELLANEOUS CORRESPONDENCE.
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Art . XII . — 'The Eton Greek Gram * mar : for the Use of Schools and Self-Instructors * Translated into English , with additional Notes . By G . N . Wright , A . M ., &c , London , Joy . 1830 . If not superlative , we must at least assign comparative merit to this work ; for if the original Eton Grammar be a
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/ Additional Remarks on the Nature and Evidences of the Resurrection of Jesus . Letter III . To the Editor . Sir , Having dwelt on several of the more private and unexpected appearances of Christ to his disciples after his resurrection , and particularly on circumstances which may be considered as of a peculiarly inexplicable nature , and which have been viewed "by commentators in a
different light from that in which they appear to my mind , I am unwilling- to dismiss the subject without requesting your further indulgence , while I notice the more easy and apparently natural , as well as the more open and expected circumstances of his manifestations in Galilee . If Divine Wisdom saw fit wholly
to withdraw his person from the view of his enemies for a considerable period after his resurrection , it seems , however , to have been no less exerted in the selection of a competent number of suitable witnesses to whom he should be manifested . Thus the object to which the attention of the disciples was more immediately directed on the day of his resurrection was to their meeting with him in Galilee , of which he had given
them notice previous to his decease . He would here meet with the largest number of persons who had an intimate
knowledge of him , and who laboured under none of those disqualifying
apprehensions wiiuih arose from having been accessary to his crucifixion . But it is remarkable , that though this meeting was repeatedly announced , by Jesus and
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by the angels at his sepulchre , * it is expressly related , and that in very brief terms , by one only of the Evan gel ists . f-The reason probably was , that it was as well known to the numerous body who assembled on the occasion as to the
writers who had given it general publicity , and thus superseded the necessity of a particular recitation . But though no ostentatious display is made of the number * who witnessed and obtained
satisfactoiy evidence of the resurrection of Jesus , yet the fact tliat some who were present had " doubts * ' remaining on their minds is franldy acknowledged . That " some , " out of the numerous assemblage which would be collected at an appointed meeting in his own country , should have failed of obtaining perfect satisfaction with respect to the actual
and substantial presence of him who had been crucified , and who was now ordinarily invisible , was a likely occurrence ;
but it is a fine trait of the unosteutatious simplicity and fearless fidelity of the writer that , without informing us of the numbers who were fully convinced and satisfied , he states that " some doubted . " That there were " more than five
hundred' * who were present , and were permanently enlisted among the Christian * ' brethren , " we , however , learn from one who , from a determined enemy became also a convert , by being afterwards introduced to Jesus . X Thus the impressions produced by this meeting appear to have been extensive and permanent , and
* Matt . xxvi . 32 ; Mark xiv . 28 - and Matt , xxviii . 7 , 10 ; Mark xvi . 7 . f- Matt , xxviii . 16 , &c . X 1 Cor . xv . ti .
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632 Miscellaneous Correspondence .
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pood thing whereby to teach boys Greek , Mr . Wright ' s translation is a mucli better . We wish its appearance may prove a symptom that the . practice of using Latin Grammars of the Greek language is wearing out . The translator has done all that was required of him in the clearness and precision with which his task is executed ; and some of his notes will be found very useful additions .
Miscellaneous Correspondence.
MISCELLANEOUS CORRESPONDENCE .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1830, page 632, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2588/page/48/
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