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    latry , was borrowed from a Gentile rather than from a Jewish structure . Further , Christians are spoken of in terms originally and properly denoting the . ministers belonging to the Jewish Temple : and Christian prayers and Christian duties are mentioned

    under images obviously derived from the temple-service . We find an instance in the following verse : " Ye are a holy priesthood , to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God by Jesus Christ . " * In the use of similar phraseology , the writer to the Hebrews

    says , concerning himself and his fellow-christians , ** We have an altar whereof they have no right to eat who serve the tabernacle i" f the signification , perhaps , is , as given in Dr . Sykes ' paraphrase , " We who are the disciples of Christ , have the means offered

    to us ,, by which we may be in a state of friendship with God / ' The succeeding verses too are full of allusions to the Hebrew ritual , as indeed the epistle abounds in them : that they are more than allusions , seems incapable of proof , f

    Nor should we forget that the prophetic scenery of the book of the Revelation is chiefly taken from that of the Temple at Jerusalem ; and that incense and odours are the almost constant symbols of Christian

    worship . § x Occasionally , Jewish customs and institutions furnish the terms and images under which the writers , &c . of the New , Testament declare evangelical truths .

    To the fire which had once been kept by the idolatrous Jews in the valley of Hinnom , for the purpose of burning their children in sacrifice to Moloch ; Jesus compares the future

    state of picked men j as he does that of the virtuous to paradise , to reclining : on Abraham ' s bosom , and to the like Jewish practices and conceptions . || In mere allusion to the number of

    the tribes into which his countrymen * 1 Pet . ii . 5 . t'xiii , 10 , X A reference of this class occurs in I Cor . v , 6 , 7 , 8 , and is admirably explained in Bell on the Lord ' s Supper . Append . No . V . ' , •§ Rev . viii . 3 , 4 . -II Mark ix . 46 ; Bishop Iyowth pn Isa . Ixvi . 24 ; Luke . xxiii . 43 , xvi . 22 ; Matt , xiii . 43 , compared with Dan . xii . 3 .

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    had been divided , and to their forme ? civil polity , he assures his followers that ' when the Son of Man shall sit on the throne of his glory , they also shall sit upon twelve thrones , judging the twelve tribes of Israel " > ye shall be

    as eminently ewalted as tf ye were my assessors : * to this passage and this sentiment Paul , it would seem , refers in 1 Cor . vL 2 . Wh < en Christ spoke of himself as

    commissioned to preach the acceptable year of the Lord , Ids object was to direct the people ' s attention to that celebrated Jewish institution , the year of Jubilee , when their slaves were

    released and their debtors were discharged , -f Again : He represents his own sufferings and those of some of his apostles , as a baptism with which they were to be baptized ; his death and thejrs as a cup of which they were to drink ; J the allusions and the terms are evidently Jewish .

    Other instances might easily be produced : but they will readily present themselves to attentive observers ; and ii is time that I endeavour to explain this great peculiarity in the Christian Scriptures . Judtea was the scene of the facts

    upon which the gospel rests , the spot where it was first published . And hence we may presume that the language in which the New Religion was taught would be that of the country in which it arose , and would partake of its characteristic style and imagery . Nor is this an unwarrantable inference :

    because whatever were the origin and design of Christianity , human means would , in a certain degree , be employed for its diffusion . - Our Lord and his apostles preached it to the Jews as a doctrine establishing its claims , in part , on the authority ot the Jewish Scriptures and of the

    Mosaic dispensation , appealing to the prophecies of the Old Testament , and designed to produce ultimately a most important change in the situation of their countrymen . In these circumstances , and with these views , what more natural than for the writings or

    * Newcorae on Matt . xix . 28 . t Luke iv . 19 : and see Lev . xxv . 8 Isaiah lxi . 1 , &c . I Matt , sqc , 22 , 23 ; Luke xii . 50 ; w \\ . 17 ; Psa . xlii . 7 .

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    218 Essay on Jewish Phrases and ' Allusions in'the fife * B ~< Festameu *

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1820, page 218, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2487/page/26/