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Excerpt from A New Version of the Four Gospels: With Notes Critical and Explanatory
Apeople - that at the time to which these books relate, they were in daily expectation of a re deemer promised in the writings of their prophets. These writings were constantly read to them in their synagogues every passage believed to refer to the redeemer was carefully explained by their teachers; his coming and his future triumphs were favourite subjects of conversation with men writhing under a foreign and detested yoke; and thus by degrees there grew up among them - as is the case with every religious sect in respect of its distinctive doctrines and practices - a species of religious idiom, a set of peculiar phrases con secrated by custom to the expression of the attri butes of the redeemer, and of the adjuncts and the consequences of his coming. He was known among them under different appellations, which may be translated the anointed,'' ''the son of David,'' the king of Israel,'' he who is comin''g,'' or about to come.'' It was believed, that he would be preceded by Elias, or by some one, whom, ln ignorance of his name, they denominated the prophet.'' From the prediction of Daniel, (0. Vii. V. 13) they had persuaded themselves that he would first appear riding on the clouds of heaven, and his coming in that manner they un derstood to be the sign,'' the visible proof of his arrival. Then, the existing ''age,'' or period of the Mosaic dispensation, would, in their opinion,end; and the ''future age,'' or the reign of the anointed, would begin. Then a kingdom, to endure for ever, would be established, the king dom of the heavens,'' an expression in their lan guage equivalent to the kingdom of God'' in our''s. - Now instances of this phraseology abound in the gospels. Indeed, it could not be otherwise, if our Saviour meant to be understood by his hearers, or the evangelists by their readers. We, therefore, ought to be constantly on our guard; for, if we take, in their obvious signification, phrases, to which custom had assigned among the Jews a very different meaning, we shall una voidably fall into error.
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Apeople - that at the time to which these books relate, they were in daily expectation of a re deemer promised in the writings of their prophets. These writings were constantly read to them in their synagogues every passage believed to refer to the redeemer was carefully explained by their teachers; his coming and his future triumphs were favourite subjects of conversation with men writhing under a foreign and detested yoke; and thus by degrees there grew up among them - as is the case with every religious sect in respect of its distinctive doctrines and practices - a species of religious idiom, a set of peculiar phrases con secrated by custom to the expression of the attri butes of the redeemer, and of the adjuncts and the consequences of his coming. He was known among them under different appellations, which may be translated the anointed,'' ''the son of David,'' the king of Israel,'' he who is comin''g,'' or about to come.'' It was believed, that he would be preceded by Elias, or by some one, whom, ln ignorance of his name, they denominated the prophet.'' From the prediction of Daniel, (0. Vii. V. 13) they had persuaded themselves that he would first appear riding on the clouds of heaven, and his coming in that manner they un derstood to be the sign,'' the visible proof of his arrival. Then, the existing ''age,'' or period of the Mosaic dispensation, would, in their opinion,end; and the ''future age,'' or the reign of the anointed, would begin. Then a kingdom, to endure for ever, would be established, the king dom of the heavens,'' an expression in their lan guage equivalent to the kingdom of God'' in our''s. - Now instances of this phraseology abound in the gospels. Indeed, it could not be otherwise, if our Saviour meant to be understood by his hearers, or the evangelists by their readers. We, therefore, ought to be constantly on our guard; for, if we take, in their obvious signification, phrases, to which custom had assigned among the Jews a very different meaning, we shall una voidably fall into error.
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This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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