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The first reference is to Acts ii , 30 , where Peter , speaking of David , says , " being a prophet , and knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him , that of the fruit of his loins , according to the Jle&Ji , he would raise up Christ to sit on his throne . " Tlpo ( p >^ TY }^ ev vnapxtw , ndi J * 8 » f on opKcp ufMtrty dvr § 6 0 eh <; c « Kafirs t % <; 6 < r < pvoq dwrs Tb Kccrd er « pxe * d . vot . ^ yrti ¥ Toy Xptg-ov Kcz 6 C < rat hn iS BpovB uvt 8 . We deem it by no means very improbable that the words
tI Kurd o-dpnoc . were here intended to express as to his human nature * It is far from being certain , for they might be connected with dvourycw , and refer to the resurrection of the body of Christ , according to the interpreted tion of Rosenmiiller and others ; they might , which is on the whole their most plausible sense , have been designed to suggest a contrast between the dignity Jesus derived from his descent , and that which belonged to him as having been raised from the dead , and made by God ** both Lord and
Christ , " or they might be redundant belonging to the phrase H icafmS try * ocQvoq dvr § . It would be worth while to examine these various suppositions , if we could not pronounce , with considerable confidence , that the words rb k&tgc . < rapca a , va ^< reiv rbv 3 ipi < rbv are spurious , a fact with which we think Dr . B . ought to have been acquainted . They are rejected from the text by Griesbach on abundant authority , and have every appearance of being a gloss .
2 . In Rom . ix . 5 , it is not difficult to perceive that the use of the qualifying clause , " according to the flesh , " i . e . by descent , is to suggest to the Gentile converts , that though the Jews were privileged in having Christ of their nation and kindred , yet as the Son of God and Saviour of men he equally belongs to all nations—it is only " according to the flesh '* that he
is the peculiar property of any . The meaning of the words , one would think , ought not to be doubtful , when in ver . 3 of the same chapter , Paul calls his countrymen his kinsmen according to thejwsh—t « V crvyyevuv uov Kara < rdpncc—in antithetical allusion to his spiritual relationship to all his converts ; yet no one has ever , that we have heard , concluded from the expression that he also had a twofold nature .
3 . The third passage is 2 Cor . v . 16 , " Wherefore , henceforth know we no man according to the flesh : yea , though we have known Christ after the flesh , yet now henceforth know we him no more . " We find it difficult to conceive with what idea of the meaning of this passage Schleusner quoted it to justify his attributing ro Kacrd o-dpna , the sense of the human nature as opposed to the divine in Christ . We refer to Dr . B . ' s own note , which , though it may not dissipate the obscurity which hangs over the passage , will abundantly prove that nothing of this kind can be made of it . Mr .
Belsham s exposition , we believe , gives the true sense : — " We renounce all our former friends and connexions , however honourable , useful , and dear . If Christ himself were now upon earth , and we were personally connected with him and attached to him , we must , for the sake ot Christ himself , and in order to promote the great cause he has at heart , renounce this dearest connexion , and must tear ourselves even from the personal friendship and society of Jesus that we may go where duty calls , to publish the tidings of
eternal life , and to advocate the cause of truth and goodness for which he laboured and suffered . " Here wrd adpucc , " according to the flesh , " is interpreted " as to natural relationship or personal attachment : " it 13 taken , according to its ordinary sense , as expressing what is natural in contradistinction to what is spiritual . Dr . Bloomfield supposes , with Grotius and others , that it refers to external qualifications , carnal advantages * It is obvious that even if it were otherwise possible in the clause relating to Christ to understand the phrase of his human nature , the application of the
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Bloomjields ' Recensio Synoptica . 663
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1830, page 663, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2589/page/7/
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