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DISSERTATION VIII. p. 269.

ON PSALM CX.

This Psalm understood exclusively of THE MESSIAR by the primitive Jewish Church; - New Translation of the Psalm;-Remarks;-Title of the Psalm ;-Why our Lord and his Apostles cited the Septuagint Version;-Explanation of 1 Cor. xv. 22-23;-Remarkable testimony of Tobit to the final restoration of the Jews; -the priesthood of Melchisedek, like, but inferior to the priesthood of CHRIST;--Second Advent of CHRIST; -Humiliation and exaltation of CHRIST.

DISSERTATION IX. p. 301.

ON PSALM XLV.

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This Psalm understood exclusively of THE MESSIAH, by the primitive Jewish Church;--and by the ablest Jewish Commentators;-its allegorical interpretation alluded to in the New Testament;-New Translation of the Psalm ;-Remarks ;—Dabar, justly rendered "Oracle"- Milton's comment;-dignity and persuasiveness of our Lord's person and address;-Our Lord's transfiguration, a most important link between his antecedent and his subsequent manifestations of himself in glory;—Magnificent descriptions of THE MESSIAH in his warlike character, given in the Wisdom of Solomon, and in the Apocalypse ;---Mistakes of the Monthly Review respecting the term Logos;-its personal application in the New Testament demonstrated;-Subfime description of the Messiah's throne, and of the general judgment, in the Apocalype;-in Matthew ;

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-The Queen, the Church of CHRIST;-Harmony between this Psalm and the Apocalypse ;-Scepticism of Michaelis respecting the Apocalypse; — The last words of David.

DISSERTATION X. p. 345.

ON THE PROPHECY OF MICAH, v. 2-4.

The great importance of this prophecy;--the most fully authenticated both by the Jewish and Christian churches ;-its first part forms the groundwork of the Introductions of Matthew and Luke; its second part, of the Introduction of John; its third part, of the Epistles, and New Testament in general;---New translation of the prophecy;- Remarks;-Superiority of Matthew's translation of the first part over the other ancient versions ;-blindness of the Socinian and Unitarian objectors;-design of the second part of the prophecy;-allusion to the miraculous conception in the third part;-confirmed from Isaiah, Proverbs, and Jeremiah;-Mistake of Dr. Blaney ;-Accomplishment of the third part, will probably tend to work the conversion of the Jews.

DISSERTATIONS,

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DISSERTATION I.

AN ATTEMPT ΤΟ RESTORE THE ORIGINAL HEBREW TEXT OF BALAAM'S PROPHECY, CONCERNING THE MESSIAH, NUMB. xxiv. 7.

THE subject of this Dissertation was originally suggested by a communication to the Orthodox Churchman's Magazine for June 1801, vol. i. p. 188, under the signature of a LONDON CURATE *, expressing a doubt

* One of the earliest, most various, and most useful contributors to that excellent Miscellany, the learned, the ingenious, and the Reverend Mr. Edward Robson, Curate of Whitechapel, LONDON. For many years he has discharged the laborious functions of that office, with a zeal, assiduity, and ability, that well entitle him to a higher station in the Church, which he supports, defends, and adorns by his life and writings.

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of the propriety of our established translation of John xix. 5.

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"Then came JESUS forth, wearing the crown of thorns, and the purple robe; and [PILATE] saith unto them, BEHOLD THE " MAN !"

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"How does it appear," says he, “from "the construction of this verse, and the con

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text, that PILATE (which has no corresponding word in the original Greek) said "unto them, BEHOLD THE MAN?" And he remarks, that the Latin Vulgate, and the Bishop's Bible, (1539), omit " PILATE."

But although these versions, and Luther's

German translation also (as remarked by the editor in a note), all omit, it does not follow, that they meant to exclude, PILATE: the verb Xays in the original passage being ambiguous, and its reference, whether to CHRIST (as proposed by the London Curate), or to Pilate, understood, as the nominative case thereto, being only to be determined by the context. But this, on careful inspection, I conceive, fully warrants its application to Pilate, as the speaker, for the following reasons:

1. The

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