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wilderness otherwise than as a place of deposit for his human sympathies , and for the purpose of refreshing and exalting his benevolence , I , for one , could not have regarded him as charged with the whole counsel of God .
He would then have ranked with those inferior messengers of a temporary dispensation who dwelt in dens and caves of the rock ; and we should still have looked for one who , although himself necessarily unfettered by earthly ties , would yet offer his bosom as a resting-place for devoted friendship , and gladden with an act of benediction a marriage-feast .
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In the first of this series of articles , ( see our last volume , p . 768 , ) we stated the different points which we proposed to consider in succession . The last of these was the determination of the years of our Lord ' s Baptism and Crucifixion ; involving the inquiry what St . Luke meant by the fifteenth year of Tiberius , and leading to consider the probable year of our Lord ' s Birth .
Considering the length of time during which our present subject has occupied so much space in the Repository , and that the examination of the above topics has in a great part been already anticipated , *—and perceiving that the investigation of the probable year of the Crucifixion would require a series of calculations , which , for our own as well as for our readers' sake , we wish at least to defer , —we deem it best , at present , merely to state the results to which we have come ; and though this differs from that of Dr . Priestley ,- {• and of Mr . Benson , J who here agrees with him , we feel
satis-* See Monthly Repository for 1822 , pp . 346—350 . f * Dr . Priestley fixes upon A . D . 29 , when the Gemini were Consuls , on the assertion of several of the ancient fathers . This was the 15 th year of Tiberius ; and there is strong reason to suppose that they fixed upon this year as the date of the Crucifixion , solely because Luke specifies the 15 th year of Tiberius as the
commencement of the Baptist's Ministry , and does not mention any Passover between that event and the Crucifixion . It is certain , from St . John's Gospel , that one Passover must have intervened ; bat minute chronological accuracy is not to be expected , from the Fathers . On the present question they had no more data than we have ; and these were not so promptly accessible as we have them .
% Mr . Benson , in his Chronology of our Saviour ' s Life , places his Birth in the spring of 5 B . C . ; his Baptism , in the November of A . D . 26 ; and his Crucifixion , at the ftmsover of A . D . 29 , after a ministry of about two years and a half . " To be positive iu a matter of such extreme difficulty , " concludes this able and candid author , " would ill become any man ; I shall therefore only remark , that if I have forgotten or undervalued any objection , it is because I was Ignorant either of its
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7 7 ( y On the Chronology and Arrangement of the Gospel Narratives .
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APPENDIX TO THE ARTICLES ON THE CHRONOLOGY AND ARRANGEMENT OF THE GOSPEL NARRATIVES .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1831, page 770, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2603/page/46/
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