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denunciations of the extreme wickedness and hypocrisy of the Scribes and Pharisees , and of the fearful evils which were impending over them and his guilty nation , which Matthew alone has recorded in detail , and with which our Lord closed his public instructions , and then finally quitted the Temple .
If the occurrences of the last paragraph took place on the Wednesday , then as he went back to Bethany , ( or if on the Tuesday , then on the day following , ) he delivered , on the Mount of Olives , in the presence of Peter , James , and John , the remarkable predictions respecting the destruction of the Temple , which were so signally fulfilled " before that generation passed away ; " and those also which yet remain to be fulfilled respecting the universal and final retribution—the former recorded , in much detail , by each of the first three Evangelists ; the latter by St . Matthew alone , and principally in the xxvth chapter , which is unfortunately separated from the xxivth .
It does not form a part of our present object to enter into the detail of those most interesting circumstances which now occurred in rapid succession , displaying the tenderness of the Man of Sorrows , in conjunction with the dignity of the Son of God—the strength of his private affections , with the most complete and devout exercises of faith and trust , and the most elevated devotement to the all-important and all-comprehensive purposes for which he came—the distress , the darkness , and the anguish , which , for the perfection of his own character , and as an encouragement and example to his followers , in all ages , his Heavenly Father appointed for him , as well as those most impressive demonstrations of the Divine love and favour ,
which attended and followed his expiring agonies on the cross . They must be familiar to all our readers ; and , as was natural * they are circumstantially recorded by the Evangelists . In some minute points , it is not easy to ascertain the precise order of occurrence ; but , in general , the course of events is easily followed ; and , at any rate , the vividness and distinctness of the records , in the separate parts , enable us to picture each to ourselves , so as to feel its reality and its impressive influence . —A view of those occurrences , to which we have here nothing to add , will be found in the little work , heretofore referred to , which is probably accessible to most of our readers—Dr . Carpenter ' s Introduction to the Geography of the New Testament , Part II . § 38—42 . *
* We might have satisfied ourselves with a reference to the Chronological View of our Lord ' s Ministry in the above-mentioned volume ; but as the arrangement here given somewhat differs from that which is there exhibited , it seemed best to give a separate outline , more especially as a more summary view was desirable fo ^ our present purpose .
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On the Chronology and Arrangement of the Gospel Narratives . 65 fr
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1831, page 657, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2602/page/5/
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