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( Continued from p . 248 . ) " In several parts of the Old-Testament Scriptures , " says Dr . Smith , " a person is introduced under the name angel of Jehovah , in circumstances and with attributes and ascriptions so remarkable as to require a peculiar consideration . " We need not at present enumerate the passages selected . Our author states that three modes for their explanation are proposed :
" 1 st . That the angel of the Divine presence was some eminent , celestial creature ; sent to convey the messages of the Divine will to those who were the immediate subjects of revelation ; acting , therefore , on the behalf of the Deity , and allowed to personate the Deity in the assumption of the attributes
and forms of address which are distinctive of him . " This , the hypothesis of Episcopius , Le Clerc , Dr . S . Clarke , and Henry Taylor / in Ben Mordecat ' s Letters f is examined and rejected by Dr . S ., but it does not seem necessary for us , in reference to the object we have at present in view , to detain our readers by its discussion .
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Ah ! what shall man desire ? To dwell in tents beneath the tree ? To guard his hearth ? To skim the sea ? Or to deep caves retire ?
The firmest rocks may quake : And many a corse is in the deep ; And winds through ruined homes may sweep , And wailing music wake . What shall man fear ? To lie Subdued by pangs of heart and brain ? To hope and gather only pain ? To mourn and then to die ?
Angels are with the brave . Heaven ' s eyes are on the couch of woe . Hope learns foF higher strifes to glow : Her pillow is the grave . What shall man hope or fear W hen gifts are not alike to all ; When the same dreams in some recall A smile , in some a tear ?
In tumults or alone , 'Mid hosts or in the still recess , Feeling its power to feed and bless , Let each receive his own .
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TRANQUILLITY .
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t > R . J . P . SMITH ' S SCRIPTURE TESTIMONY TO THE MESSIAH .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1831, page 332, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2597/page/44/
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