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days * during which period he revived those spcito instructions and that general illumination which qualified him for his afa-itnportant work ^ and also underwt&ttt various trials of his faith tod wfodotfi , whteh assisted td ptte * pane him for the right employtaeM of the high powers that had been given him " without measure , * ' bat < m \ f ft *• % » ^ mp tayea for the great purposes for which they Utere eofiferted , and which were always regarded by him as a trust .
The foregoing eh-cumstances are ( with one exception ) recorded * by the first three Evangelists and ft-ota this period till the cotometicetnent of our Lord ' s Public Ministry in Galilee , they give us no direct information , if we except his visit to Nazareth * recorded by St * Luke ; From the first chapter of John we learn thjat our Lord returned to Bethabara the day aftet a deputation front the Sanhedrim had applied to the Baj > - tist , to ascertain the extent of his commission ; that then John bore testimony to htm ; and that in consequence some of his foliowefs became the disciples of Jesus * Soon after this , our h&rd returned to Galilee ; and at a marriage festival at Cana , Wrought hi « First Miracle *
Part IL From the First Passover inclusively t to the Approach of the Feast of Tabetridcfos . Soon after his first miracle , our Lord went to Jerusalem to attend the Passover ; and there manifested his authority , by driving the traders out ot the temple , and by miracles which are not specified ; in consequence of
which , Nicodemus came to him by night , and had a conference with him . He then went into the country of Judaea , where he remained for some time with those who had become his disciples , admitting others by baptism to the profession of a belief in him ; and at this period the Baptist again bore testimony to his superior dignity *—These things are related by St . John . alone : ch . ii . iii .
About this period must have occurred that trahsaction- ^ the Walk through the Corn-fields—which in eadh of the first three Gospels is associated with an occurrence—the cure of the Man with the Withered Hand—that must have taken place at a much later period * i * e * probably , during the absence of the Twelve on their mission +
? Moses was " with the Lord" forty days and forty nights . ( See Exod . xxxiv . 28 . ) In like manner it would be reasonable to suppose , that though the trials of our Lord's fortitude and duty might be continued , at intervals , during the whole forty days , yet that one main object of his retirement was what Is above stated . Those Unitarians who consider the Logo * of John as denoting Christ personally , will naturally refer the expression " with God" to this important period . t Matthew xii . 1— -13 ; Mark H . 23 , iii . 5 ; Luke vi . 1- ^ 11 . —The Editor of the Boston Harmony feels great objection ( Pre f * p . xi . ) to the separation of events so closely connected in each of the first three Gospels ; especially as the former is
introduced by St . Matthew with so much appearauce of precision . The objection i » strong and reasonable ; and it has always seemed the greatest difficulty , ( if not the only essential one , ) attending the general principles of the arrangement which the Boston Harmony has followed . The Editor has offered some considerations * «« with much diffidence , " to shew that the Walk might have occurred at the period assigned to the Miracle , viz . the latter part of February : aud if this conjecture were sufficiently borne out by the natural history erf Palestine , it would remove nearly the whole of the difficulty . But the facto collected by J . G . Bnble * In his Economical Calendar of Palestine , given in the Fragments to Caltnet ' s Dictionary , do rtot authorize the solution . —If the word hevTcooirootry in Luke vi . 1 , be genuine * ( and the
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1831, page 455, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2599/page/23/
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