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    vine or luminous or supernatural Jy apleoaid appearance * his face shining as the sUu , and his raiment becoming white as snow : " and he adds " poppy Q . eov without the article , literally , in a form of God . " Now , few can be more averse than the writer

    of this paper to far-fetched analogies in the interpretation of Scripture - though , in the present case , I confess , it appears to me far more probable that Paul ' s allusion was to the fall of

    our first parents , than to the transfiguration of Jesus . The idea may , perhaps , startle those who are accustomncf to take their faith upon trust , and to doze with their Bibles in their

    hands y but to the enlightened student of the New Testament , I have little doubt but it will instantly approve itself , as the only tvue and rational interpretation of the passage . Paul often keeps up in his own mind a

    comparison between the first and the second Adam , and is not unfrequently influenced by it in his allusions to the person and character of Jesus . We read ( Gen . i . g 6 , 27 ) , that the iirst Adam was created o » n *? K CD ^ Vl > car

    etxova , Qeov ; we read also ( iii . 5 ) , that , at the instigation of the evil one , he was prevailed upon to transgress the Divine commands , under a promise that , by so doing , he should become o » rr ^ tf D , * cjo $ < 3 > £ 0 $ -, or , as

    Paul has if , i $ a 0 £ cu . The second Adam is likewise styled , with peculiar emhapsis , eixwv tqu < &ss rs aopocr& 9 ( Col . i . 15 ) , and was under repeated temptations to abuse the powers with which he was entrusted : but he

    yielded not to the persuasions of the tempter ; the inducements which were offered had no charms for him , and * Query . Is it not probable that 1 JOD * infcO Gen . ' iii . 22 , has been the mistake of some early transcviber for Q * ri 7 $ O ? It was promised to our first parents , ver . 5 ,

    that , as the consequence of their yieldingto the suggestions of the tempter , they should be as God , knowing good and evil ; and in this verse nothing- is required but a trifling" conjectural emendation to render

    the paesag-es perfectly consistent with each other . * Th « Lord God said , Behold , the iO 6 fl is become as God , to know good and evil . " The resemblance , however , was not ctfttipfote * for man became 0 * n ? fcO only J ?* V ) . 3 > K ) ( the infinitive mood taken stib-« tant ; iv « Iy , ) rijni * " the knowledge of good and evil /*

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    he rejected them with a becoming indignation . In this consisted the peculiar excellence of his character , and hence arose t ^ e propriety and force of the apostle ' s exhortation :-:- " Let this mind . be in you , which was also ia Christ Jesus . " R . W . W .

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    690 Biblical Critici $ m *—Mr . Hvlden on John yi . 62 , 65 .

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    JSr . Holden on John vi . 6 % 63 . Tenterden 9 April 9 , 1817 . OUR Saviour ' s words in John vi . 62 , 63 , are yet considered as attended with difficulty . — What , and if ye shall see the &on of Man ascend

    up where he was before ? It is the Spirit that quickenethy &c . Jesus had previously made the fallowing assertion , Veril y * verily 9 I say unto you , except ye eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood , ye have no life in you . With the highest respect f&r the editors of the Improved

    Version , and diffidence in my own judgment , our Saviour here appears to me to refer expressly to his crucifixion , and thus may be considered as asserting , that , except they should adhere to him and his religion , although they should behold him suspended on a cross , they could derive no benefit from what he had communicated to

    the world . It was also the more necessary to dwell upon these circumstances , since the Jews very generally expected a temporal arid triumphant Messiah . Indeed , in this expectation his dksciples were included , who of consequence observed * , this is an

    hard saying ; ttfho can hear it ? Jesu » perceiving this , and desirous of confinning them in their resolution to adhere to him and his religion , said to them , " doth this offend you ? Are

    you hence tempted to forsake me , and to give up the sacred cause I am maintaining in the world ? What , and if ye shall see tlie Son of Man ascend up wliere he was before ? Here it must be observed , that the Son of

    Man had not been in . heaven j » or will even those who believe in the Trinity , or the pre-existence assert it . The meaning at present appears to me to be as follows : —You will assuredly behold me crucified as a malethis

    factor- , but what if ye shall , after , again behold me alive , afrd have repeated opportunities of again personally converging with me ? It is then of the same tendency with John * v » - S 3 : Ye now therefore have sorrow ; ** I ivill see you , again * « md your heart

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1817, page 680, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2470/page/40/