The early spread of circumcision / By Sir George Henry Rose.

  • George Henry Rose
Date:
1846
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Credit: The early spread of circumcision / By Sir George Henry Rose. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    bo his Son. Her life closed before the other predictions of the angel could be accomplished, those regarding his future and eternal reign over Israel. But she did know, that heavenly messengers announced at his ascension, that he should return from “ heaven in like manner ” as he had risen from the earth, in the flesh therefore; and she herself probably heard them so speak. Mary had yielded her faith on the plain literal statement of a miraculous fact, which she knew to be true; she saw all the facts announced to her, which occurred during her life, happening according to the literal prophetic descrip¬ tion. Is not there the plainest implication of the truth of that heavenly Father, who had dealt so graciously with her, that the assurances given to her, but unfulfilled before her death, on which she acted in their plainest sense, should have the Bame rule of interpretation that the fulfilled had ; for what other rule could this Jewish maiden dream of? and if she had at any time dreamed of another, she must have abandoned it, when she saw that all the as¬ surances, that could be accomplished in her lifetime, were literally accomplished ; we hear of no warning to her, that whilst more than half—all she could see ful¬ filled — were real, the others prefigured something else. But what was this something else ? could she guess it ? was it defined ? could it, as unintelligible to her, have any influence on her faith ? Could the allwise God have offered her a boon unexplained, and which, being incomprehensible to her, could have no value in her eyes ? If the things pro¬ mised do not mean what they profess to mean, what sense have they ? all that can be done by the spiritualiser is, that each man shall explain them according to his own fancies; the only sure rule of interpretation is taken away; and if we make it a reproach to our professors of medicine, that “ doctors differ,” is there none for doctors of divinity, who.
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