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at the day of judgment than for you / and the parallel one , 'It shall be more tolerable for the land of Sodom in the day of judgment than for thee , ' do not , we apprehend , refer to the general judgment ; but to the miseries which wererabout to happen . Tyre and Sidon , as cities , were already receiving their punish--Tnentj-mnch-Qf—kr-had-been-already ^ endui : erL ;^ a n _ d _ Sodom lay beneath the heavy waters of the dead sea . The meaning of the expression appears to be ; ' Your punishment in the day of your
judgment shall be more terrible than theirs was in the day of their judgment / The judgment of the last day will be the judgment of men as individuals , not as the aggregated inhabitants of cities or nations . Of the blessings showered richly upon a holy city or nation many bad men partake : in the judgments which befall a profligkfe ^ mi ^ "impious people many good men suffer : but when Christ shall come to judge the world in righteousness , no man shall be saved by &is . ? leighbour ' s holiness ,, or condemned for his neighbours transgression : by himself he shall stand or fall .
The language of our Saviour is not that of denunciation . Even if it be the language of reproach , it is the reproach of wounded affection , paralleled for its tenderness only by his pathetic lamentation over Jerusalem for its obstinacy and blindness . Petulance , Xhe angry , feelings ; of mortified vanity , bitter indignation ^ on account of rejected kindness , the ^ unhallowed ' breathings of revenge , had no place in the bosom of the Redeemer and Sanctifier of mankind . St . Paul was filled with his spirit -when he . said , ' Being reviled , we bless ; being persecuted , we suffer it ; being defamed , we entreat /
Another interpretation , strictly correct , has been proposed for part of Christ ' s words , which would render more apparent the tender compassion by which they were dictated . ' Alas for thee , Chorazin ! alas for thee / Bethsaidal' Such a commencement shows that his language was the outpouring o ? a sorrowful heart .
He saw the cities in which he had done many wonderful works in their prosperity ; he foresaw the bitter calamities ¦ which would soon lay them even with the dust , and their children within them ; and he gave vent to his anguish in a solemn and moving prediction , which yet might have been a warning if they had had ears to hear .
Holy and benevolent being ! how do our hearts yearn towards , thee , fpr thou wert ever the same I Thy love was pure , constant , unsubduable . Thou wert indeed the brightness of the Father ' 8 glory : for who ever felt as thou didst feel ;\ and yet , like thee , was never moved from his tenderness by ignorance , obstinacy , and in * gratitude ? We love thee , and venerate thee in our inmost hearts . And , what a lesson is taught us concerning the spirit in which we ought to view the blindness , the perverseness , the iniquities of our fellow-creatures . They should not stir our anger , our contempt , our hatred 5 these are iniquities too . They should move
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364 A DECLARATION OF JUDGMENT .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 1, 1833, page 364, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2627/page/12/
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