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the title of Son of God tfrofen ^ special appointment , his resurrection from the dead being the moyt retaatkable and ail-sufficient sign of that appointment . Dfr . B . 'Sflote is as follows : V 6 y yevQpii / e is meant being born , as in Gal . iv . 4 , John i . 14 " [ we cannot think the last reference appropriate ] . " 2 w €$ p . aTo <; seed , line" [ linage we consider as the most exact and expressive translation ! . " 2 ap | , which
corresponds to the Hebrew ^ ittO jfo # A , has the following primary significations : The flesh itself , the Whole animal body composed of flesh and bone : ' 2 dly , the totixm amfnafis ^ consisting «) f body and soul . From these primary signiftcatikmfc have arisen many secondary and tropical ones , among which is that notion by which o-o ^ f denotes the external condition of a man , especially conspicuous in his body , and as opposed to the internal dignity of a man ,
a meaner and humbler state . ( Rosenm . ) Notwithstanding what some recent commentators strenuously niaintain , this expression Kocra o-dgKot has the signification unanimously ascribed to it by the ancient fathers and commentators , as Chrysostom , Theophylact , CEcumenhis , Theodoret , and the earlier intfctefti commentators , the human nature , and in this Schleusner rightly acquiesces ; subjoining , among other examples of this sense , Acts . ii . 30 , where the expression nrh kut& c-dgycac is also used of Christ ; likewise Rom . ix .
5 , i € tov o Xpifbq Th Kuta . < rapyt& , 2 Cor . v . 16 , Heb . v . 14 / ' Qii . 14 , our author -has copied the misprint from Schleusner , thus shewing that he did not recollect , and did not take the trouble to examine the passage , which lie would have found little to his purpose . ] " This interpretation is also supported by Carpzov and Koppe . Indeed , it is required by the antithetical words , vlS
0 E& lv SwcifAEi ytarcc irvEtjfAa . dyicoervMis : and both clauses united designate ( as the ancient Fathers and Greek commentators perceived ) the twofold nature of Christy and effectually exclude the Socinian fancy of Jesus being a mere man ; as , indeed , is acknowledged by i \ lr . Locke . "—Vol . V . p . 300 . The account of the meanings of the word cra , p £ , here given in a translatipn from Rosenmuller , is far from being satisfactory ; but referring on that subject to the article in Schleusner , we shall confine ourselves to what immediately relates to the sense of the text tiow under consideration .
Dr . B . has not informed us precisely what it is which " some recent commentators strenuousl y maintain , " much less has he favoured us with the arguments by which they support their views ; but he confidently assures us , in opposition to them , that kolto . ad ^ a . signifies the human nature , and lest someshouki presume to dispute his authority , he has made an attempt ( from
Schleusner ) at establishing this sense . We think it clear enough , nevertheless , that the meaning is "by descent , ' " asto his natural relationship , " as opposed to the peculiar and glorious relationship with the Supreme Being , which consisted in his office as God ' s anointed messenger , and which is stated in the following clause to have been proved to belong to him , especially by his resurrection from the dead .
This is taking a usually assigned and undeniable sense of the word , which 4 s clearly found , Rom . ix . 3 * xi . 14 > and which , in this : place > g ives full force to the antithesis , evidently designed between kolto . adpKsc and nocru rtattviAU &yiG )< rvi / 7 i < f- ^{ who was born of the lineage of David as to his descent , tout designated as the Son of God wifeh power , in respect to the Holy Spirit , by his resurrection from the dead ) .
We are to inquire , then , whether the four passages referred to by our author , after Schleusner are sufficient to prove that when applied to Christ , we must understand kolt& a-dpita , in a peculiar sensev , as implying the mysterious doctrine of the two-fold nature , and directing oor attention to the human as opposed to the divine .
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662 Btoowfietd ' S Rei'ensio Syriopiica .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1830, page 662, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2589/page/6/
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