8. Therefore we are under an obligation to receive the such like, in order that fellow helpers we should be to the truth,

9. we having written something on this head to the church, but Diotrephes that loveth to have the

805. Thy soul. If the soul is an actual part of a man, such as his hand, foot, head &c., or an actual separate Existence, not connected with man's body, one of which the Literal Sense of these words implies it to be; I know of no reason for the Disarrangement here; but if the soul is only a quality of man, or the result of the mental operations of man, then the Disarrangement is necessary. See Rule 321, and my Tract on IIvevua. This is a very important

write.

14. Verily I trust shortly thee to have seen, and face, to face, we shall speak,

803

15. peace be with thee, the friends salute thee, greet the friends in name i e those who are nominally friends.

807. Thy love. Literally, The love possessed by thee; whereas &c., The kindness thy love led thee to show them; hence &c., 321.

809. He restrains them. Literally, He effects that object; whereas &c., He endeavours to do so; hence &c., 321.

811. He hath not seen the God. This must be a troublesome passage to those who accept the general explanation of John xiv. 9.

812. It has been witnessed. Not, Actually what is stated, which is the Literal Sense; but, His teaching necessarily requires such to be the case; hence &c., 321.

815. Giving all diligence. Disarranged to mark limitation, thus, Striving with great desire and application. See Rule 321. 816. I had a necessity. Disarranged to mark limitation, thus, It was desirable. See Rule 321.

817. Changing the grace of our God. Not Actually changing, which is the Literal Sense; but, Endeavouring to substitute lasciviousness in the place of the grace of God; hence the Disarrangement of the word changing. See Rule 321.

The grace of our God, means Literally, The grace possessed by God; whereas &c., The grace God has shewn to man; hence &c., 321.

818. Denying our only &c. Literally, Actually doing so; whereas &c., So changing His doctrine as in effect to deny His authority; hence &c., 321.

819. I determine to have brought to remembrance &c. Literally implies, They had actually forgotten; whereas &c., I determined to re-state what had been before stated to you; hence &c., 321.

820. You having once seen. Literally, Having actually beheld; whereas &c., Having at one time acknowledged the fact; hence &c.,

321.

819

5. But I determine to have brought to remem

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brance of you all things, you having once seen, that

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Joshua having saved people out of the land of Egypt,

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afterward destroyed them that believed not.

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6. Even messengers that preserved not the beginning of themselves, though having left the own habitation, as to judgment of great day, he has left us in chains eternal of darkness i e ignorance,

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7. and as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them, having given themselves over to fornication the like manner to these messengers, even having gone away after strange flesh, are set forth an example by an eternal fire, undergoing a judicial

sentence.

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825. The cities about them. Literally, All the cities round them; whereas &c. I conceive, Only certain cities about them were so visited; hence &c., 321.

826. Having given themselves over. Literally implies, An actual specific acceptance; whereas &c., Having habitually performed the like things; hence the Disarrangement of these words. See Rule 321. The same manner. Literally, In the detail; whereas &c., The same in principle, want of faith in God; hence &c., 321.

827. By an eternal fire. Sodom was an eternal example to man of God's displeasure against sin, in His destruction of it and its inhabitants by fire; eternal, since in relation to the destruction of their connexion with the present world, it ceases not. In what other Sense Sodom is an example to man, in the requirements of the context, or the fire is to man Eternal, seeing it is nowhere now to be discovered by him, I wait to be informed.

828. Undergoing a judicial sentence. Literally implies, A sentence publicly pronounced against the infringement of an actually promulgated law; which not being true in the present case, is the occasion of the Disarrangement. See Rule 321.

829. Men seeing by dreams. If this conveys the true Sense of this passage, what evil, misery, and fear might have been saved, had man assuredly known, that dreams are not the voice of Almighty God.

830. They profane flesh i e human judgment, hence the Omission of the Article. See Rule 343; and this being spoken not in relation to the judgment of all men, which is the Literal Sense, but only in relation to that of themselves, is the occasion of the Disarrangement. See Rule 321.

831. Despise authority. Literally, All authority; whereas &c., Any authority that is not their own; hence &c., 321.

832. Contending with the Devil. I have no knowledge of the particulars of this event that enables me to determine the occasion of the Disarrangement here.

833. The Moses's body. No one can justly contend that the Sense of the Original here is, For the possession of the body of Moses, since such a Sense could never have been expressed as the words here stand in the Original; I think it probable that the Sense intended to be conveyed is, They disputed whether Moses ever had a body.

834. Jehovah. Mr. L. Shadwell's observations on this word in his "Gospel according to Matthew" have convinced me that whenever the Greek word Lord is without the Article prefixed, used as a Distinctive Appellation of God, it should be translated Jehovah. I therefore always so translate this word in such places.

835. They were departed &c. Not, In the identical way of Cain,

which is the Literal Sense; but, In the way that the principles of Cain would dictate; hence &c., 321.

836. Their own disgraces. Literally, What they regarded as such; whereas &c., What will be counted to them such; hence &c., 321.

838. The lusts of themselves. Literally, Originated by themselves; whereas &c., Performed by themselves; hence &c., 321. 839. Not having a spirit. The omission of the Article precludes any reference here to what is termed, The ordinary or extraordinary gifts of the Holy Ghost. See my Tract on vεûμа.

All men have a mind, but all have it not so, as to make its dictates the director of their conduct, which is what is here intended by, Not having a spirit; hence the Paraphrase, and hence &c., 321.

841. Your holy faith. Literally, The faith exercised by you; whereas &c., The particulars believed by you; hence &c., 321.

842. The love of God. Literally, The love possessed by God; whereas &c., The love God has shewn to man; hence the omission of the Article. See Rule 101.

851

10. I was in spirit, at the Lord's day ie the day of judgment, and heard behind me a great voice as of a trumpet saying,

11. what thou seest, write in a book, and send it unto the seven churches, unto Ephesus, and unto Smyrna, and unto Pergamos, and unto Thyatira, and unto Sardis, and unto Philadelphia, and unto Laodicea,

12. and I turned to see the voice, which spoke with me, and having turned, I saw seven golden candlesticks,

13. and in midst of the seven candlesticks, like to a son of man, having been clothed with a garment down to the feet, and girt with about the paps a golden girdle.

14. And his head, even the hairs white, like wool white as snow, and his eyes, as a flame of fire,

15. and his feet, like to fine brass, as in a furnace, having been melted, and his voice as a sound of waters,

many

851. This is one of the few portions of Holy Scripture that are advanced to sanction the Observance of Sunday in the place of the Sabbath. All the Texts that are commonly advanced for this object are as follows, John xx. 19 and 26, Acts ii. 1, and xx. 7, and 1 Cor. xvi. 2.

The received Translation is, "I was in the Spirit on the Lord's Day." On this Tradition asserts. Here we are taught by God, not only that Christians were appointed a different Sabbath to that of his ancient people, but even that that day is to be otherwise named, and so named, as to mark the reason of the change of day, and of the great event to be kept in remembrance by that day, and by that change. But fact says, That to convey the Sense of the Received Version, the Article must have been expressed before the word, Spirit, (See my Tract on IIveûua) and that there is no authority for regarding, The Lord's Day, to be other, than, The day of judgment, elsewhere styled, The day of the Lord, or, The day of Jehovah, See 1 Cor. v. 5, 2 Cor. i. 14; 1 Thess. v. 2, 2 Peter iii. 10. The Lord's Day, Literally, Is a day that occurs but once; See Philip. i. 6, Day of Christ. One of the days of the Lord, would be one of the forms in which the Sense, commonly attributed to these words, would be expressed in Greek. I am indebted for a great part of the Sense of

858

1. write to the angel of the church in Ephesus. Even the things he says, he that retains the seven stars, at his right hand, he that walketh in midst of the seven candlesticks that are gold,

2. I have known thy works, and thy labour, and thy patience, and that thou art not able to have borne evil persons, and tried them that boast themselves apostles to exist, but exist not, and found them liars,

this Passage to the Author of "The Sabbath" by a Layman, 1849.

See xvii. 3.

853. At his right hand. Literally, Always in that place in relation to the actual person specified; whereas &c., In that place which bears the designation of the right hand of the party specified; hence &c., 321.

854. As the sun shineth. Literally, Having an exact resemblance; whereas &c., As descriptive only of similar brightness; hence &c.,

321.

856. Though dead I was. I conceive that our blessed Lord was not in the full Literal Sense Dead, since he was invested with the power at the expiration of three days and nights to regain his life; hence &c. I conceive, 321.

858. Write to the angel of the Church in Ephesus. Literally, Exclusively to him; whereas &c., Write to the church through him; hence &c., 321.

The cause of the Disarrangement of the word Church is to shew, that the Church referred to, was not an institution peculiar to Ephesus, which the Literal Sense would require it to be, but that it had existence in other parts of the world; hence &c., 321.