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lators themselves supply the ellipsis in two passages in this verydiscourse , v , 24 . 28 , and in other texts where they were not misled by their prepossessions . See John , iv . 25 , 2 $ . xiii . 19 « Our Lord in his discpurse had declared to the Jews , v . 56 . € i
Your father Abraham rejoiced to see , ( that is , eagerly desired to fortsecj my day , he saw ( foresaw ) it , and was glad . " He does not give thie least hint , either that he in person had seen . Abraham or tfaat ^ b raham ha 4 seen him . He only affirms , that Abraham hadjbeeii gratified with ^ a foresight of the advent o £ the Messiah . This Jevys grossly misunderstanding , or , wilfully perverting his meaning , replied to him . ^ Thou art not yet fifty years old , and hast thou seen Abraham'V * Our Lord , as in the
former discussion , chap , vill&ot deigning to notice or to rectify this absurd misrepresentation of Jhis meaning makes a repl y ^ perfectly relevant to , and which completely vindicates his former assertion , viz . that the patriarch might foresee his advent ^ because he had been , in the divine mind , constituted the
Messiah , before Abraham existed . ° * c Before Abraham was , I am he , " or , I Was the Messiah : * ' q ^ d .. it was fixed in the divine councils , that I should in due time appear und ^ r this character * It was no uncommon thing among the Jews , to speak of things as actually existing , which only existed in tlie . divine ' determination . See Luke , x $ . 37 , 38 . And the blessings of the
Christian dispensation are often represented in the New Testament as the object of God's eternal purpose and decree . Eph . i . 4 * STim . i . Q . 1 Pet . j . 20 . If my worthy friend is unwilling to take this interpretation upon the credit of Lindsey , Priestley and Lardner , tie rrl ^ ty consult the commentary of Hammond , Crotius and Beza ; they will not be suspected of giving partial evidence in the case .
vi . John xviu 5 . " And now , O Father , glorify ihou me with thine own self , with the glory which I had with thee before th # world was /' This is the last text which my friend produces in favour ot the Arian hypothesis from the evangelist John , and which he
leaves without a comment , as being prima facie , strong and conclusive evidence of the pre-existence of Christ . " It is hardly fair that my friend should leave all the labour of searching and explaining the scriptures to the Unitarians ; it seems but reasoncible , and he would certainly find it to his own advantage > though not to that of his hypothesis ^ if he would take his share in this honourable task * However , the Unitarians are
well content , to near the burthen which he casts upon them * lAkor ipse voluptos . And they can assure my friend that the ^
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1807, page 549, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2385/page/41/
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