Critical and Explanatory Notes, on Many Select Passages in the New Testament; Such as Are Hard to Be Understood, Being Attended with More or Less ... an Illustration of the Genuine Beauty and - Softcover
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1845 edition. Excerpt: ... that our own, end, and the coming of Christ in this sense, is near. But even in this case, we "knowneither the day, nor the hour," nor the year, any more than in the other. (Matt. xxv: 13.) These circumstances are wisely hidden from us; and since we know that he may come at any day, hour, or minute, this is reason enough why we should be always ready to go out and meet him. (Matt. xxv: 6.) FIRST TIMOTHY. CHAPTER II: 14, 15. "And Adam was not deceived; but the woman being deceived was in the transgression. Notwithstanding she shall be saved in child-bearing, if they continue in faith, and charity, and holiness with sobriety." How shall we understand what is here said of our first parents? In the first of these verses it is said that " Adam was not deceived; but the woman, (i. e., Eve,) being deceived, was in the transgression." The meaning is not that Adam did not transgress in the affair of the forbidden fruit as really as Eve. Paul did not mean to say any such thing, and thus contradict the express declaration of Moses, (Gen. iii: 6,) yea, and what he himself had expressly declared elsewhere. (Rom. v: 12.) He merely says, "Adam was not deceived," and means that he was not the first transgressor; but that the woman (Eve) was deceived, i. e., by the devil, and was first " in the transgression." Adam and Eve were equally transgressors in that affair, but Eve transgressed first. But the difference which is here chiefly intended by the apostle relates to the cause of the transgression in the two cases respectively. The serpent, or the devil, through his subtilty, and the deception he practiced, was the cause of the woman's transgressing. (Gen. iii: 13; 2 Cor. xi: 3.) But not so with Adam. His transgressing in that affair was owing, not to...
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