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denied—the futility of its supposed incompetency having , it is presumed , been fully ascertained . I have directed my observations more immediately to this
point of the objection , the nature and capacity of testimony y because it is the point which appears to me to be the principal one , and in most of the answers given , to have been the least attended to . A BELIEVER IN MIRACLES .
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Genealogy of Jesus and Joseph . ^ Gosport , Jan . 2 , 181 7 * KING JAMES ' S translators English this verse thus : " And Jesus himself began - to be about thirty years of age , being ( as was supposed ) the son of Joseph , which was the son of Heli . "
The Improved Version , for " as was supposed , * ' reads , " as was allowed by law . " It is not the present writer ' s design to enter into the dispute concerning the disagreements between the genealogy of
Matthew and that of Luke ; neither is it of very material importance to his argument whether we read supposed " or * allowed by law to be the son of Joseph , " he being well persuaded that those words in the parenthesis were
not intended by the Evangelist to describe Jesus , but his father Joseph , and that the passage originally stood : * ' And Jesus himself began to be about thirty years of age , being the son of Joseph , who was supposed to be ( or allowed by law to be ) the son of Heli . "
From Dr . Priestley ' s Harmony of the Gospels ( Sect . II . Notes ) , I find that " according to Eusebius , it was a tradition in the family of Joseph , that he was properly the legal son of Heli , who , dying without children , his brother Jacob married his wife , and having a child by her , it was transferred to Heli . "
The only use which Dr . P . makes of the citation , is to account for the difference in the genealogies—Matthewstating that Jacob begat Joseph , and Luke that " Joseph" was " the son of Heli . "
Whether at the time he published the Harmony , the Doctor believed the miraculous conception or not , is less apparent than might be wished in the notes to that work ; and I have no other books at hand which will throw
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light upon the subject . From the latter cause , too , I cannot discover whether my conjecture be new , but I have certainly never heard of it before . My reasons for believing it well-founded , are , that we have no ground to imagine ! that any doubts existed in the time of our Lord with regard to his being the son of Joseph by natural generation , and therefore no cause for the
Evangelist ' s writing the words " as was supposed , " after the name of Jesus j whereas there is a manifest propriety in their being appended to that of Joseph , who was not the son of Heli by natural generation , but ( if the tradition of Eusebius be correct , and I know
not how , without admitting it , to reconcile the genealogies ) by legal transfer only—Jacob having " raised up see ^ l to nis brother . " Could it be proved that by accident or design these words had been transposed by a copyist from their original situation ( which , perhaps , may be
done , or at least the presumption strengthened , by some of your ingenious and learned correspondents ) , the believers in ther miraculous conception would have one argument the less in defence of their hypothesis . I should be happy to see the discussion taken up . J . READ .
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Narrative of a celebrated Auto de T £ in the City of Logrono , [ Continued from Vol . XI . pp . 576 and 658 . ] ^ ^ HE inquisitors state that the fbl-JL lowing ceremonies take place on the installation of a witch : — The witch , who persuades any persons to become noviciates , first anoints
them with a foetid , greenish liquid , and then takes them rapidly through the air to the Aquelarre , where they are received by the devil on his throne . They there renounce God , the virgin , all the saints and sacraments , and on their knees they kiss various parts of the devil ' s body , and acknowledge him for their God and Lord : after which
his infernal majesty makes a wound in their flesh with his nail , and with a liquid like gold marks the apple of their eye , by which mark the witches recognize one another . Though the pain from the ; former operation is excessive , the p lace wounded soon becomes senseless , and the inquisitors
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T $ Genealogy of Jesus etrid Joseph .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1817, page 20, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2460/page/20/
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