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    with ) may be found in Rosenmiiller ' s Scholia on the N . T . It was published by a German , called Gottfridus Olearius . in a Latin ¦ —^ w »* » » ^ . » « a ^ h . ^ A V « ^* A Jl ^» *—» « A * 4 U / , ¦ i ^ % A % /* M . A

    work , intended as an answer to Mr . F . ' s Inquiry . Rosenmiiller conceived the work of our countryman Mr . F . to have there met with a complete overthrow , and the author ' s own hypothesis to have been at the same time

    satisfactorily established . Perhaps it would hardly be deemed jair by your readers , were I to withhold entirely from them an account of these two hypotheses with which not a few of them

    may be unacquainted . And professing to be myself a searcher after truth , and to be grateful for any assistance which others may be disposed to afford me in the search , I think I should pay

    them a bad compliment did I suppose they would be displeased with me lor offering them the trim Jling aid it may l > e in my power to lend some among them in their prosecution of the same object . I will , therefore , take the liberty

    of presenting you with the following . brief sketches of the two schemes , cheerfully leaving it to you to determine whether the insertion of both or neither of them

    be likely to be subservient to the promotion of liberal religious inquiry . I propose to follow the sketches with a few short remarks showing niy present disapprobation of each scheme , and some of

    the grounds on which it is founded . Dr . G . conceiving our Lord ' s temptation in the wilderness , literally understood ^ to be chargeable with many inconsistencies .

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    was inclined on thattaccount to consider it as delivered in a para , ble . Finding Christ represented in Scripture as having been tempted in all things as . we are , but yet without sin ; reading there also , that every man when he is tempt , ed , is drawn away of his lust and enticed , the Dr . concluded that he was attacked by lust , which

    term he defines to signify the principles of action wrought into the animal part of our nature , which oppose the law of the imind . Supposing Christ to have taken our nature upon him ^ and with it the

    principles belonging to its animal part , he thought those principles to have been the tempter denoted by the words Satan and the De . vil . Of those principles ^ the particulaY ones which he selects as

    probably our Lord s tempters in the trials specified in the gospel narratives , are impatience under the uneasy feelings of hunger and faintness , some principle of pride

    in his earthly nature , and the love of worldly greatness . The complete victory obtained over the suggestions of these principles , the Dr . ascribes to the will of the

    spirit or of the heavenly nature of our Lord ; an . d the angels , who came and ministered unto him , after he had overcome the temptations that are in the world

    through lust , ( to use the Dr / sown words , ) are the pure peace , satisfaction , joy and gladness of heart and mind , which he felt and experienced in consequence of the

    complete victory that he had obtained over these fleshly lusts and desires , which oppose the law of \ he mind , and war against the soul . *

    * A View of Revealed Religion , &c , p . 187 , &c .

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    398 On the Temptation &f Christ . —Letter 3 .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1810, page 398, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2407/page/22/