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    tehse ( I was ) instead of the present ( Jam , ) thesame authors appear to me to have produced very cogent arguments for not admitting it , and to have satisfactorily shewn ihe authorities they had seen adduced in its favour to be irrelevant . To

    them may be added Dr . Dbddridge , who says , in a note on the Terse , * I , cannot apprehend , that zytv eifju is ever used for / wasr . " Mr . John Simpson , in his excellent work on * Internal and

    Presumptive Evidences for Christianity , &cc" part iv , ch . vii . sect * ii , entitled , * « Prophecies uttered by Christ , and their fulfilment " p .

    537 > note 2 , says " atpi is used to express future time , John viii . 58 , as Jesus also uses it , John xvii . 24 . " From this observation I should

    infer , that this learned critic is not one of those who translate ntpiv -A ^ poca [^ ysyscrQocif before Abraham "was : for what can be meant bv " before Abraham % vas 1 shall be ?" Though Abraham may never be used in the New Testament but

    as a proper name , yet in several passages it seems ( o have been em * ployed to express the peculiar character and relation implied by the name , and to shew the Jews , whether they chose to allow it or not , that there was an important sense , in which he was to be considered

    as the father of other nations beside their' 6 . See Gal . iii . 7 , 29 . Rom . ch . iv . particularly verse 16 and 18 . More may be found on this subject in Enjedinus , p , 222 —224 ; Slichtingius in loc

    Artemonius , v . 2 . p . 618 ; Socinus , v . 1 . p . 505 ; Crellius , v . 3 . p . 94 : the last author refers to transitions from the names of persons to the things signified by them in the words Jacob . Naomi . Peter . '

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    The question of the Jews ; > v , $ 3 9 in reply to oUr Ldfd ^ s wotd ^ v . 52 , shows , that they thbtrgfi ^ hirri to have claimed a superiotiftf to Abraham ; and , this seems -evidently to have been the ririncijiSl

    point in dispute between' tbeitf . The Jews , having no better ^ rgti ^ ment to offer in support of thefr side of the question , urge his com * paratively recent birth to provfe that Abraham could not have'been .

    seen by him . Jesus , connninfg His attention to the great and leading point under discussion ^ acts , as upon other occasions , arid passing by unnoticed the query just put to him as intended to

    embarrass him by the introduction df a quite different subject from whtft had been talked about befpre ^ asserts , with a solemnity perfectly suitable to the importance of the

    fact he maintains ^ viz % that of'hfe being himself the Christ , and ; df Abraham ' s not then existing under the character denoted by ihe namfe given him by ihe Deity , though about to be brought into existent ^

    under that character through his means . ; This is the fact , 1 takfe to be affirmed by our Lord here ,, and to signify the same thing as he affirmed at another time when he said , ' Other sheep I have which are not of this fold , " John

    x . 10 , clearly referring to the converts whom his apostles would make among the gentiles ^ wheii the founder of the Jewish nation * would have a right to thfc name ^ which till then could bo applied to him only by way of anticipation . Our Lord ' s words thus

    understood contain , as WolteOgeniils pronounoes ^ a proposition wortfiy of Christ . See Woltzogenius In loc . Socinus , v . 1 . p . 505 ; Crtllius , v ; 3 . p * 93 *

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1812, page 99, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1745/page/35/