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of men , my Father hath made known unto me . I'have no doubt that nrapu-$ & 6 vai in this place means to teach , to reveal , [ in which sense the Heb . jr > 3 very frequently occurs in the Rabbinical writings , ] on account of the following words ,, for Christ says that the revelation of all mysteries relating to human salvation is entrusted to him : ovdeis intyweSo-xei * rbp vibv , it p . vj 6 irccryp ( and no man knoweth the Son but the Father >—No one hath yet understood the nature of the office committed to the Messiah but the Father . Tibs ( the Son ) is here put concisely for that which was committed by the Father to the Son to be done or taught : and kTciywuxrmv here denotes accurate knowledge . 'OfSe Tbv iraTepa t * $ iiriyivcoa-ytet ii [ avj o vlbq ( neither knoweth any man the Father save the Son )—Nor does any man except the Son fully understand the decrees and counsels of the Father , relating to the salvation of the human race . Respecting the sense of top varepa ( the Father ) the same thing is to be remarked which we have before observed of the Son . Even the prophets had but a very imperfect view of the things which they predicted on these subjects : kolI & > lav povXriroci 6 vlb $ ditOYxxXtyou ( and he to whomsoever the Son will reveal him ) . This is to be referred equally to what is known of the Father and of the Son . For it was left to the wisdom of the Son both to what persons , and to what extent , and at what time , he would communicate this knowledge . "—J . G . Rosemuiiller , Schol . in Nov . Test . ed * 3 d , Vol . II . p . 169 .
We shall next give the principal points in Kuinoel ' s annotation : ** My Father hath delivered all things to me . The discourse is here concerning divine instruction and the explanation of the divine counsels , as the whole connexion shews—the sense of the words is , * those things which I teach I owe entirely to my Father : he hath delivered to me his own instruction in all its parts . ' And no one hath so accurately known the Son , what
sort of a person I am , and what is the nature of the office entrusted to me , exceptthe Father ; nor hath anyone so accurately known the Father , what is the degree of intercourse between me and my Father , what are the plans of my Father concerning the salvation of men to be effected through me , except the Son , and he on whom the Son shall choose to bestow this knowledge ,
which last words must be referred to each of the preceding clauses . No one , Jesus declares , can know these things unless taught by me . Whence he establishes that he is the true teacher , from whom every one is able , and ought , to receive salutary instruction . "—Kuinoel , Comm . in Nov . Test . Vol . I . pp . 355 , 356 .
And in like manner Wetstein : " Although those Jewish doctors despise my humble condition , you think more justly : you believe that I am the only partaker in the secret things of God , and have been sent by him that I might shew the way of salvation ; that those who depart from me depart from the light , and cannot truly understand God the Father , though they boast that they know him . " *
* We add Grotius ' s note : " No one knoweth the Son but the Father—the Father only who hath ordained it from eternity , knoweth what the Son is to do and
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588 Dr . J . P . Smith's Scripture Testimony to the Messiah .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1831, page 588, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2601/page/12/
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