Inspiration and Interpretation / Seven Sermons Preached Before the University of Oxford

by John William Burgon

[528] 2 St. Pet. i. 21.

[529] See above, [pp. 53-4].

[530] See above, [pp. 157-160].

[531] Harm. Apost. Diss. Post., cap. xi. § 3.

[532] See above, [pp. 152-7].

[533] Consider again the Divine exposition, (in 1 St. John v. 6,) of St. John xix. 34.

[534] See Dr. Mill's Christian Advocate's publication for 1844, The Historical Character of the circumstances of our Lord's Nativity vindicated against some recent mythical interpreters,—especially p. 402 to p. 434.

[535] Cf. Phil. iii. 7-9.

[536] Consider St. John vi. 46, and all similar places.

[537] On the words, Ἡ δὲ ἐκ πίστεως δικαιοσύνη οὕτω λέγει,—Theodoret remarks:—Ἀντὶ τοῦ, περὶ δὲ τῆς ἐκ πίστεως δικαιοσύνης, οὕτως λέγει· οὐ γὰρ ἡ δικαιοσύνη ταῦτα λέγει, ἀλλὰ διὰ Μωσέως, ὁ τῶν ὅλων Θεὸς, περὶ τοῦ νόμου ταῦτα εἴρηκε· διδάσκων Ἰουδαίους ὡς δίχα πόνων τὴν τῶν πρακτέων διδασκαλίαν ἐδέξαντο.—Theodoret, Cat., p. 374.