Illustrations of the divine government : tending to shew, that every thing is under the direction of infinite wisdom and goodness, and will terminate in the production of universal purity and happiness / By T. Southwood Smith, M.D.

Thomas Southwood Smith

Date:: 1817

Credit: Illustrations of the divine government : tending to shew, that every thing is under the direction of infinite wisdom and goodness, and will terminate in the production of universal purity and happiness / By T. Southwood Smith, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$a man is fallen, it signifies to restore or recover : so Luke xix. 10: 6 The Son of Man is come to seek and, Tcorrai to to recover that which is lost/ So that, though in English, we say that a man is delivered out of a state of danger or misery, and that he is restored into a state of security and happiness ; yet in Greek, the same verb answers both purposes/* He proposes, that these words should be translated in conformity to these observations in the following passages. 44 1 Tim. ii. 4: 4 Who wills that all men, trcoQrivoii, should be, (not saved, but) restored to health, and come to the acknowledgment of the truth/ John iii. 17* 4 God sent his Son into the world, Im (rcuSj] 6 Hocrfxog of avr&, that the world through him, might be (not saved, but) restored;* 1 Tim. iv. 10. 4 Who is the, (rwryg, restorer of all men, especially of the faithful, because he saves them even from the wrath prepared/ 1 John iv. 14: 4 We do testify, that the Father sent the Son to be, o-coryga rs the restorer of the world,* notwithstanding its previous doom to the aeonian fire. John iv. 42: 4 This is indeed the restorer of the world, the Christ/ (aX7jfla>£ o <rcorr\^ ts xo(T(jl8, 6 Xgicog,) that is, because the world’s recovery or restoration, will be its last resource in Christ, therefore is our Lord thus called its restorer/*$