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    miracles of Christ , which gave him the authority of God for teaching , in the same manner as a prince setting his seal to a writing gives to that writing authority to convey his sentiments /' Tliis I conceive is far from the

    real meaning of the passage . When a victim was brought for sacrifice it was inspected by an officer called from his employer the sealer ; and if he found it without spot or blemish , he set his seal to it , as proper to be offered . In allusion to this

    custom our Lord insinuates , that the son of man was a spotless victim , soon to be offered up ; and that instead of the customary officer , the Father , even God , had sealed him , had sanctioned and consecrated him as

    proper for this sacrifice . The whole verse may thus be paraphrased : ' Be not solicitous to procure a food that soon decays , and which at best for a short time supports your earthly frame : be anxious rather to

    obtain that divine . food which is subject to no change or decay , and which will supply your souls with everlasting life . This perennial sustenance , this immortal nourishment , is offered

    you in the son of man . He whom no error can escape , and whom no obstacle can frustrate , has marked hijtn out as the

    proper sacrifice to be offered up in your behalf ; and if you eat and drink of this sacrifice , if you partake of the emblems of his death , with suitable resolutions to act

    conformabl y to the divine doctrine which they are calculated to impress on your memories and * JQarts , you w i / l live and be trappy for ever /

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    On this passage , Mf . Editor , a Correspondent , in p . 273 of your Repository for May , pro ~ pones the following question : — - " Whether it be at all probable that our Lord , with the associations and education of a Jew , should rjefer to a custom which ^ f for ought that appears , had no existence in his own country , and with which , therefore , he could scarcely be acquainted ?

    Until this question be satisfactorily answered , Mr , Kenrick ' s exposition of the passage must bf * admitted as perfectly correct . ** Now , Sir , as your correspondent disapproves Hiy interpretation , it would have been but candid in him to place my own words , as well as those of Mr . Kenrick *

    before your readers , who would then have been able to judge fce ~ tween us . As he has been pleased to state the case , my most respectable adversary is permitted to speak in his own language , while an imperfect , I will not

    say a garbled statement is given of my interpretation . I never supposed that the custom alluded to existed only among the Gentiles , though I produced no other authority for it but Plutarch , who states it as existing in the-Egyptian ritual . What 1 could any writer be so ignorant , or suppose his readers to be so * ignorant , as not to know that the Paschal Lamb existed * among the Jews . And this is all that

    ray interpretation , as jfar as the legitimacy of it is concerned , implies ; for it is most evident that our Lord , not only in the disputed verse , but throughout the rest pf the chapter , speaks of himself and of his doctrine under an aU liision to the supper which ho

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    M r * Jonefr , on his ** IHuiiraiions . ' * 371

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1809, page 371, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1738/page/17/