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prejudice , from which every one thinks himself free , and which each attributes to his opponent . Far-fetched often has reference only to the established associations of the person using the term , as obvious may only
signify what readily occurs to him , having his mind preoccupied with a theory . It is clear that no one would have applied the original passage to our Lord , but for the Apostle ' s quotation : let us inquire then what was his meaning . He is urging those whom he addresses not to indulge in mutual censures , from the consideration of the future iudsrment to which thev would all
equally be called , and for which it would become them better to prepare , " since we must all present ourselves before the tribunal of Christ ; for it is written , As I live , saith the Lord , every knee shall bow to me , and every tongue shall acknowledge God . So then every one of us must give an account of himself to God . " The Apostle quotes the words of the prophet as
declaring that all should be judged . To shew that the judgment of God and of Christ are the same , is necessary to the sense of the passage : this is done satisfactorily by observing that God judges through Christ ; it is not done satisfactorily by affirming that Christ is God , because that assertion is inconsistent with the declaration that " God will judge the world by that man whom he hath appointed . " But has Dr . S . never noticed , or does he regard as insignificant , a various reading in Rom . xiv . 10 , where , for " shall all stand before the judgment-seat of Christ" a not inconsiderable number of copies read— " of God : " which , if admitted , would at once put an end to his argument ? We are hardly prepared , as Mr . Beisham has done in his Translation of the Epistles , to introduce this reading into the text , but we cannot do less than pronounce it very probably true , and there ought to be little importance attached to an argument which rests on the correctness of one of two readings in so very doubtful a case . Our interpretation of
Paul ' s meaning suits equally well to either . * The next Section ( numbered , like the preceding , xxv . by an error continued from the first edition ) relates to the expression Jer . xxiii . 5 , 6 , xxxiii . 15 , 16 , " Jehovah our righteousness . " The Unitarian interpretation , also adopted by some " who have no prepossession in favour of Antitrinitarian doctrines , " and by the best of the Jewish commentators , is , that the title is given not as a personal appellative , but as a descriptive name , like Iaunanuel , Isa . vii . 14 ; Maher-shalal-hash-baz , Isa . viii . 1 ; Ariel , Isa . xxix . 1 ; Magor-Missabib , Jer . xx . 3 ; El-Elohe-lsrael , God , the God of Israel , the name of an altar , Gen . xxxiii . 20 ; Jehovah-nissi , Jehovah my banner , Exod . xvii . 15 , an altar so called by Moses ; Jehovah-shalom , Jehovah of peace .
• Griesbach places € > £ 8 in his inner margin with the secondary mark of probability ( which he explains to mean that the reading is not to be despised , and is worthy of farther examination , yet inferior to the received ) . It is found in the principal MSS . of the Western recension , as well as in the Alexandrian MS ., which ,
in the epistles , more generally exhibits the Alexandrine recension . Griesbach prefers the reading of the received text , as belonging both to the Alexandrine and Byzantine recensions , and probably because he thought that &ea might have been written for the sake of consistency with the following verse . We submit , with all
due respect for so acute and impartial a judge , that it is more probable Xwj-a was written instead of @ee , in imitation of 2 Cor . v . 10 , Tci ) s yap irciirrat ; fjy . ccc tpoLVEpuOvjvcii h& 7 iiAivpoadiv T 8 / 3 yjfAono <; t « X / Ji ^ e * ; that the Western recension , however much to be distrusted respecting changes dependent ou the mere substitution of letters , or respecting additions to the text , is less than either of the others to be suspected of a critical change j and that the Common or Byzantine text can in a case of this kind add nothing to the authority of the Alexaudrine recension , so that the balance of probability rather inclines iii favour of the reading 0 ea .
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/> r . J . P . Smith 8 Scripture Testimony to the Messiah . 245
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1831, page 245, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2596/page/29/
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