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22. yea and certain women, of us, astonished us, early having been at the sepulchre of him,

23. for not having found his body, they came, declaring that a vision of angels, they saw, that declare him to be alive,

24. and certain of them that were with us having come to the sepulchre specified, verily they found thus. As the women specified said. But they found him not,

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25. then he said unto them. O fools and slow in the heart referred to in respect of that ye should believe in all, which the prophets declare,

26. is it not, these things it was necessary to have suffered the Christ, for to have entered into his glory,

27. and having begun, from Moses and from all the prophets of God, he expounded unto them, in all the scriptures of God, the things that are relating to himself,

28. then they have i e had drawn nigh unto the

was what is stated; whereas &c., Who appeared to man to be so ; hence &c., 321.

864. As the women said. Literally, They found the angels &c. See verse 23; whereas &c., They found what the women proclaimed respecting Jesus; hence &c., 322,1.

865. They found him not. Literally, At any time; whereas &c., They found him not in the Sepulchre; hence &c., 321.

village, where they were going, but he made farther

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30. and it came to pass in the act to have been seated at meat him, with them, having taken the bread on the table, be blessed, and having broken, he was giving to them.

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32. then they said to one another, is it not, our heart being kindled was existing, while he was talking with us, in the way we went together, while he was opening to us the scriptures of God,

33. and having risen up in it the hour Jesus departed, they returned to Jerusalem, and they found having been assembled the eleven disciples of Jesus and they that are with them declaring,

34. verily indeed the Lord was raised, for he appeared to Simon,

35. then they were telling the things that were in the way that they had gone, and how he was known to them, by the breaking of the bread that they were about to eat.

36. And these things of them speaking, he stood in midst of them, and saith unto them, peace unto

47. for to have been preached in his name repentance, unto a remission of sins, to all the nations, having begun at Jerusalem,

48. ye witnesses of these things are,

49. and behold I send forth the promise of my father, upon you. So ye, tarry in the city ye are in, until when, ye should have been endued from on high with power.

50. Then he led them as far as, unto Bethany, and having lifted up his hands, he blessed them,

51. and it came to pass in the act to bless him them, he parted from them, and was being carried up into the heaven,

52. and they, having prostrated themselves before him, returned to Jerusalem, with great joy,

53. and were existing continually, in the temple, blessing the God. Amen.

standing; whereas &c., He enabled them to understand; hence &c., 870. See Matt. 681.

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500. In commencing. Had the Sense here been, In the beginning of all things, the Article must have been expressed. See Rev. xxi. 6; also John ii. 11; its omission therefore determines, that some other Sense is intended to be conveyed, which from the Context I judge to be that expressed in the Paraphrase. See Chap. viii. 44.

501. The command &c. In vindication of my Translation of this verse I would inquire. 1st. What Rule, Usage, or Customary Form of Expression does it transgress? 2nd. What better Form of Greek could be employed to express the Sense I have given than that which is in the original. 3rd. In relation to the Sense this verse is commonly regarded to afford, I would inquire, Where is there any authority for a Word preceded by the Article in the commencement of a record, without any explicit Definition, being regarded as an Appellation of an Individual, when such Word is not only not previously well known as an acknowledged Appellation of the Individual, but is, on no other occasion, ever applied as an Appellation of the Individual. To admit such to be the case, is to admit the Article is a nullity. Rev. xix. 13, Is not the same Appellation. It is not, And his name is called the word, but, And his name is called the word of God. To say nothing of its having been written 28 years afterwards. 502. See ix. 18 and 24.

503. A God. Was this used as an Appellation of Almighty God, the Article would certainly have been expressed before it; its omission therefore determines that it must be used as an Appellation of some other, and this other, I judge from the context to be what I have expressed in the Paraphrase. I judge my view to be somewhat strengthened by the 2nd verse, which would otherwise be a mere repetition of the 3rd Clause of the first verse. 505. The men. The Article is expressed, and therefore, The light

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8. that man the light was not, but he came, in order that he should have borne witness concerning the light,

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of men, is not an admissible Translation. In like manner, The darkness in v. 5, cannot be, The light shineth in darkness.

506. From God. The Article is omitted before the word God, because if expressed it would imply, that the man referred to had been actually with the Almighty, and was sent from him into the world, such being the Literal Sense; but such not being the Sense intended to be conveyed, which is, A man sent with direction and power from God; hence the Article is omitted in accordance to Rule 101.

507. All should have believed. Literally, All men; whereas &c., Is restricted to all that hear of it; hence &c., 322,1.

508. That man the light. The Received Translation, That light, connects a Masculine Pronoun with a Neuter Substantive.

509. The world knew not him. Literally, They had no knowledge of him; whereas &c., They did not accept him; hence &c., 321.

It is requisite that whatever is referred to by the word World in one part of this verse, is also referred to by the same word in the other part of it where it occurs; this, however, is not the case in the Translation given in the Received Version. I consider that the word World in this verse is used as an Appellation for Mankind.

510. The things-The i e those. It does not appear to me to have been noticed, that the first of these is in the Neuter Gender, and the second in the Masculine; hence my Paraphrase.

511. Its own received not him. Literally, No man received him; whereas &c., Those that esteem the world received not him; hence &c., 321.

512. Children of God. See Note on Rom. viii. 16.

513. Nor of the will of man, according to the Authorized Version, but as these words in the Original stand in the Margin of the Vatican Manuscript, and may therefore have been added as a comment on the Text by some Transcriber, and as the difficulty of giving them a reasonable explanation is nearly if not quite insurmountable, I defer their admission to the Text till their right thereto has been established.

514. By a God. Observe the Omission of the Article, See Rule 101.

515. The command flesh became. Literally, Was fully completed in the possession of flesh; whereas &c., Was revealed to man through a body of flesh; hence &c., 322,1.

516. John bears witness. Literally, He originated; whereas &c., He was instructed to utter; hence &c., 322,1.

517. He that comes after me. Literally, This would embrace all, that are born after John; hence &c., 321.

518. A principal. I know of no reason for the Omission of the Article here, had what is stated had reference to Almighty God. See Rule 101.

518,1. The grace and the truth. Observe the expression of the Articles.

519. Was a God's gift. Before the word God can be connected in accordance with the Received Translation, an explanation of its position in the Arrangement must be found out; this I will wait

to see before I adopt the results that would follow from it. The Article is omitted before the word God. See Rule 101.

519,1. An only begotten God. All the oldest MSS. but one, (the Alexandrian) have this Reading; and Ten Fathers against one, or rather nine and half Fathers against half a Father, if what Dean Alford states is correct, viz., That Origen gives the passage each way, and he is the only Father that makes mention of the Authorized Reading. The Reading, And an only begotten God that is in the bosom of the Father, that (God) hath declared him, is in perfect accordance with Verses 1 and 2 of this Chapter, thus, In commencing (this dispensation) the command was existing, yet the command was with the God (to fulfil), as a God the command was (to produce). This (God) was existing in commencing (this dispensation) with the God.

519,2. Sent unto him priests &c. Literally, Sent expressly to him personally; whereas &c., Sent to make inquiries respecting him ; hence &c., 321.

520. The prophet. John might be a Teacher, a Messenger, a Forerunner, A voice of loud crying in the wilderness, and yet not a Prophet.

Any one predicting any future event, is, Literally, A Prophet; hence the expression of the Article, and my Paraphrase, to shew that the reference is to that which is most entitled to the Appellation, The Prophet of God, or one that is really a Prophet.

527. Behold the Lamb of the God that takes away the sin of the world. It deserves especial Note that it is Singular, The sin, not The sins. It is not said in Holy Scripture, That the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all our sins, but, from all sin. The Penitent man hath not Sins from which to be cleansed, "Having confessed his sins, God is faithful and just to have forgiven him his sins, and to have cleansed him from all unrighteousness," yet hath he Sin, in the Sin of Adam, from which he requires to be cleansed, or with him will it remain to all eternity, so then let our cry be," Behold the Lamb of the God that takes away the sin of the world." Especially observe that the Article is expressed before the word, The sin.

529. I have been seen. Who will justify the Perf. Pass. being translated, I saw?

530. Said unto me. From the Disarrangement, I conclude that St. John had not been personally addressed by the Almighty, which the Literal Sense of the passage would have required him to have been; hence &c., 321.

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gular it would have implied, that the time specified had relation to what is stated in the preceding verse, such being the Literal Sense; whereas the relation is to verse 29; hence &c., 321.

532. This man finds first. Had the Arrangement been Regular the Sense conveyed would have been, This man Jesus; whereas &c., This man Andrew; hence &c., 321.

534. Thou Cephas shalt be called. Literally, He should be called Cephas; whereas &c., He shall be called by the name of that which Cephas expresses; hence &c., 321.

535. He desired the next day. According to the Literal Sense, The next day, would be the day succeeding what is recorded in the preceding verse; whereas I conceive it has reference to what is recorded in verse 35; hence &c., 321.

538. Also the prophets described. Those are mistaken who have produced this passage to prove, that the Appellation, The law, is not confined to the Mosaic Law, but includes also The Prophets; for had such been the Sense of this passage, why are the words, The Prophets, in the Nominative Case, which in accordance to my Rules determines the Sense to be as expressed in the Paraphrase?