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manifested in him . I must work the works of him who sent me , while it is day ; night cometh , when no one can work . While I am in the worlds I arn the light of the world . ' Having said this , he spat on the ground , and made clay of the spittle , and anointed with the clay the eyes of the blind man , and said unto him : ' Go , _ jwas ^ pthine ^ Sent ^) [ see Neh . nr . 15 . 1 So he went and washed , and came
seeing . The neighbours therefore , and they who had before seen him , that he was a beggar , said : Is not this he , who sat and begged ? ' Some said : * It is he . ' Others : * It is like him . ' He said : 1 am he . ' Then said they unto him : How were " thine eyes opened ? ' He answered and said : 'A man , called Jesus , made clay and anointed mine eyes , and said unto me : iC Go to
Siloam , and wash ; " so having gone and washed , I received sight . ' Then said they unto him , ' Where is he ? ' He saith : I know not . ' They bring him , who had before been blind , unto the Pharisees . ( Now it was a sabbath [ see Lev . ^ xiii . 39 ^] when Jesus made the clay and opened his eyes . ) Then again the Pharisees also asked him how he had received sight . He said unto them : ' He put clay upon mine eyes , and I washed , ami do see . Then said some of the Pharisees : « This man is not from
God , because lie keepeth not the sabbath . ' Others said : . ' How Can a sinful man do such miracles ? ' So there was a division among them . _ They say unto the blind man again : * What-sayest thou of him , since [ asthou sayest ] he hath opened thine eyes ?' He said : * That he is a prophet . ' Then the Jews believed not of him , that he had been blind , and had received sight , until they called the parents of him who had received sight , and asked them ,
saying : "Is this your son , of whom ye say that he was born blind ? How then doth he now see ? V His parents answered them and said : ' We know that this is our son , and that he was born blind ; but how he now seeth , we know not ; or who opened his eyes , we know not ; he is of age , ask him ; he will speak for himself . ** , This said hi § parents , because they feared the Jews ; for the Jews had already agreed that , if any one should confess [ Jesus ] to he the Christ , he should be expelled from the
synagogue [ i . e . excommunicated as well from social intercourse as from public worship among the Jews . ] Therefore his parents said : He is of age , ask him / Then they a second time called the man who had been blind , and said unto l \ im : V Give glory to God ; we know that this man is a sinner . ' Then he answered and said : ' Whether he be a sinner , I know . not ; one thing 1
know , that having been blind , I now see . ' They said unto him again : * What did he to thee ? how opened he thine eyes ? ' He answered them : I have told you already , and did ye not hear ? why would ye hear it again ? will ye also become his disciples ?' They reviled him and said ? - ' Thou art his disciple , but we are disciples of Moses , We know that God spake unto Moses , but
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TRANSLATION OF THE GOSPELS . 231
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 1, 1833, page 231, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2619/page/7/
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