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    mitted the most illegal cruelties ; who assembled , not to do justice , but to perpetrate iniquity and oppression , and who solemnly condemned the guiltless . Verse 20 . € i Shall the throne of iniquity have fellowship with thee ( with God ) , which frameth mischief by a law ? " ( 21 ) " They gather themselves together against the soul of the righteous , and condemn ( or

    make sin ) the innocent blood . " According to this instance , again , to be made sin is to be condemned to death unjustly . From all these examples it may be gathered in general , that

    to be made sin signifies to suffer either by the hand of a magistrate or the unkind judgment of other men , or the deed of Providence , as if the sufferer were indeed and in truth an infamous and abandoned sinner , to suffer such things as are only

    deserved by such characters . The Jews , as a people , were under a peculiar dispensation

    in which the sins committed by them against God , as King of Israel , were fbjlowed with certain and immediate punishment . By the sentence of their law , or the visitation of Providence , they were sufferers as certainly and almost as soon as they were

    sinners j it is no wonder , therefore , that in the Jewish language to be made a signal sufferer should be expressed by a phrase , the natural signification of which is to be made sin . This form of speech and of conception appears not only in the phrase we have had under consideration , but innumerable passages might be

    produced from the Old Testament , in which sufferings and afflictions of any kind are expressed by those very words , which

    m their natural and primary meaning denote sins or iniquities : I would only mention two ; first in the 14-th chapter of Zechariab , ver # e 19 , where the word translated punishment in the margin of the bible is rendered sin , as indeed it properly and originally signifies ; and here it is applied to express the sufferings with which they should be punished , who despised the institutions of God . The second instance is in the second

    book of Kings , 7 th chapter , 9 th verse , where the word which is translated mischief , signifies , as marked in the margin of the Bible , punishment ) and is in truth the very same word which primarily and properly signifies iniquity ' , and is here applied to denote , indefinitely , any evil or suffering of whatever kind that

    might come-from any quarter . By these various considerations it appears , beyond all doubt , according to the usage of the Jewish language , the peculiarities of which prevail throughout the whole New Testament , that to be made sin is to be given up to gr ievous sufferings , to be visited with great affliction , to be overwhelmed with such calamities as are justly and ordinarily the reward of the pciost atrocioup crimes .

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    S € Christ ' s being made Sin .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1806, page 86, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1721/page/30/