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    are ; some standing here " , he meant Cjne individual oujly , and that ip 4 ividual , Judas Iscariot ? Who hut he could have put any other con - struction upon the phrase , tasting of death / 3 in this passage , tjian th ^ t of dying ? Or , who besides himself could have deduced the awful doctrine of the eternity of hell torments from a verse which

    has not the least allusion to jt I How much more natural vvoulcl it li&ve been for the Bishop to have referred to aur Lord ' s original language , that " the -kingdom of

    heaven yvas at hand /* for an explanation of this passage ; especially as it is firmly supported by its connection with -a conversation

    which our Lord heyi with his dispipl&s ; cqpcerhing the opinion which vyas entertained of him ? As it appears that the Bishop totally mistook the meaning of this yerse , so there i ? abundant

    evidence that he was likewise greatly mistaken when he asserted that the plar ^ se of aur Lord's coming , wherever it accurs jn his prediction of the Jewish war , is to be t ^ ken in its literal meani ng , as denoting bis coming in person ^ i / j visiblepomp jand glory , ' tQ tjhe ggne ±

    ral judgment . Nothing ij \ the sentients or conduct of the disciples at this period , will , I am confident , justify the putting such a meaning vjpon their question— << Wji ^ t shall Lie the sign of tjiy coining }' As the prediction of * ' tj > fc destruction of Jerusalem / ' was totally incompatible \ yjthall th ^ ir ideas of c < the

    nature of the Messiah ' s chpr&cter /' it is i n finitely more natural tp suppose that th ^ y could not reconcile it with thoj > e ideas £ iui , . therefore applied to J ^ sys for -Jqfq rmation * 44 Wjhen s ^ ai | tbe ^ e things be / ' and if ^^ y Bft ¥ st be ; far that is cyu

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    dently the ellipsis to be sapplie (] - — 4 < What shall be the sign . of thy cpiniflgf * Tbis , I think , b mo / evident from our Lord ' s reply ; for be immediately proceeds to caution them against those who ci

    shoyld assume tlie character of the Messiah / ' ^ nd l * e repeats th is caution again and again , and then tells them th $ t u as the lightiiincy coniejk out of the East and shin

    eth even-unto 1 be West ; so shall also the coining of the Son of Man be . ^ B ^ Jt j still ferther lo show ihat be ith ^ raughly understood that . their question related to * ' the 3

    coniiog Qjf th ^ Messiah , ' he gave them th 3 following very explicit information upon the subject , in the form pf parable . * Now learn

    a parable / ' or iusiructkm , from tht ? fig-triee ; when its branch is yet tendfer and putteth forth leaves , ye know jth ^ t sumioier is nigh ; so likewise ye ^ when ye shall see all these things "—all the things which he h&d jusi been predicting , kuow that it' '~—or as St , Luke has

    it—< f kiiow thgtt the Kingdom of God is nigh aj : hand . ' * Here again , if the learned Bishop had attended to our Lord ' s originaJ language that Ci the kingdom of heaven" or of the Messiah *

    u was at hand / 7 he would have found a ftiQst easy and natural in «* terpretatiori of the phrase u the kingdom of God , ' ' in the parable ; and he must have perceived that it wag a direct and explicit answer

    to the question of the disciples- — u wh ?| t shall be the sign of thy coming ?' ' If this ^ vas not the n > ea , ning of their question and of our lord ' s answer to it—then I will venture to assert that there w no bond of connection between the sevfcr&Jl parts of the gospel history * and , in fact , nothing which can

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    292 Mr . Nisbett on Bishop Jgorsletfs Sermons *

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1811, page 292, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2416/page/36/