in relation to our Lord, seem to have perplexed some minds upwards of eighteen centuries ago; and they form, at the present day, one of the most interesting subjects that agitate the Christian world. The Trinitarian says, That Jesus Christ is the all-wise and omnipotent God, "the second person of the Trinity, equal to the Father;"-that "he taught in his own name, and without appealing to any authority but his own ;"-that "he acted entirely by his own power, and manifested forth his own glory ;"-that, though as Mediator he received the authority from the Father, he possessed in himself as God the ability by which he was enabled to exercise the authority." The Unitarian, on the other hand, regards such language as entirely opposed to scriptural truth, and says that our Saviour did not represent himself as equal in power and glory to his almighty Father, -did not call himself the second person of the Godhead,did not teach in his own name,-did not act by his own inherent power, did not seek his own personal glory. And well may the Unitarian make these denials; for, as we have seen, the unerring Teacher expressly declared, that it was by the appointment and inspiration of Jehovah he preached the gospel; that the doctrine which he taught was not his own, but His that sent him; that he had not spoken of himself, but uttered only what had been commanded him by the Father; that he was a man who told the truth which he had heard of God. Well, indeed, may the Unitarian make these denials, and affirm that the Lord and Master of Christians derived all his knowledge and power from the Source of wisdom and inspiration; for, as has been proved, the holy being who had been entrusted by his Father, for the best and most benevolent of purposes, with a control over the laws of nature, was in the habit of addressing in prayer Almighty God, and of characterizing himself as a docile and obedient son, who receives all his instructions from his father, 11 and whose filial piety is so strong, so affectionate, that he does nothing, and can do nothing, but what he is permitted by his beloved parent to perform. And, while Jesus attributed to the Father who dwelt within him the wisdom and the power which were so conspicuous in his doctrine and in his miracles, he never at any time disclosed the cabalistic view of his person, that he thus spoke and acted in the lowest and most insignificant of his capacities,—namely, in his human nature, at the very time when, according to the same system, he possessed also an infinite nature, capable, without the aid of the Father, of revealing the most important truths, and performing the most astonishing works! May we not, therefore, without subterfuge or equivocation, say with the apostle Paul, that "THE HEAD OF CHRIST IS GOD?" SECT. II. PASSAGES OF SCRIPTURE PROVING CHRIST TO BE INFERIOR TO GOD, BY VARIOUS TITLES AND MODES OF EXPRESSION RELATIVE TO HIS NATURE, CHARACTER, AND MISSION. (1) Christ called a Man: 1. By our Lord himself. John viii. 40: "But now ye seek to kill me, a man* that hath told you the truth, which I have heard of God." 2. By the Prophet Isaiah. ed and rejected of men; 3. By John the Baptist. * Isa. liii. 3: "He is despis a mant of sorrows, and John i. 30: "After me Avoporos, when used in any of these passages, will be distinguished by an h, the initial of the Latin word homo, a common or mortal man; avno, by a v, the initial of the Latin, vir, a distinguished or great man. + In the Septuagint, aveowros homo; but in the Hebrew, vir. cometh a man** who is preferred before me; for he was before me." 4. By the Samaritan woman John iv. 29: "Come, see a man who told me all things that ever I did: is not this the Christ?" 5. By the spectators of Christ's miracles. Matt. ix. 8: "But when the multitudes saw [it], they marvelled, and glorified God, who had given such power 6. By a blind man, whose sight was restored. John ix. 11: "A man" that is called Jesus made clay, and anointed mine eyes, and said unto me, Go to the pool of Siloam," &c. 7. By the Jews generally. John vii. 46: "The of ficers answered, Never man spake like this man.' 16,2 24; x. 33; xi. 47, 50; xviii. 14, 17. Acts 8. By Pontius Pilate. John xix. 5: "Behold the man!" - See chap. xviii. 29. Luke xxiii. 4, 6, 14.2h 9. By the Roman centurion who witnessed the crucifixion Mark xv. 39: " Truly this man was of Jesus. the Son of God." See Luke xxiii. 47. 10. By two of the disciples. Luke xxiv. 19: "They said unto him, Concerning Jesus of Nazareth, who was a prophet, mighty in deed and word before God and all the people." 11. By the Apostle Peter, both before and after the ascension of his Master. Acts ii. 22: "Ye men of Israel, hear these words: Jesus of Nazareth, a man” approved of God among you," &c.— See Matt. xxvi. 72. 74. Mark xiv. 71. 12. By the Apostle Paul. Acts xvii. 30, 31: "God... hath appointed a day, in which he will judge the world in righteousness by [that] man" whom he hath ordained; [whereof] he hath given assurance unto all [men], in that he hath raised him from the dead." Rom. v. 15: "If, through the offence of one, many be dead; much more the grace of God, and the gift by grace, [which is] by one man," Jesus Christ, hath abounded unto many.' 99 1 Cor. xv. 21: "Since by man" [came] death, by man [came] also the resurrection of the dead." Chap. xv. 47: "The first man [is] of the earth, earthy; the second man" [is] the Lord from heaven." Phil. ii. 7, 8: "But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men;" and, being found in fashion as a man," he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.' 1 Tim. ii. 5: " [There is] one God, and one Mediator between God and men, the man' Christ Jesus." in viro.-Arias Montanus, per virum.-Castalio. per eum virum.-Beza. par l'homme.-D. Durand. Acts xvii. 31 : εν ανδρι par un homme.-R. Stephens, Father Simon, Le Clerc. durch einen Mann.-Luther. by [that] man.-Common Version. by the man.-Wynne, Carpenter, E. Taylor. 1 Cor. xv. 21 : δι' ανθρωπου Arias Montanus, Castalio, Beza. D. Durand. R. Stephens, Calvin's Bible, Father Simon, Le Clerc, Beausobre et L'Enfant. Common Version, Improved Version, E. Taylor, S. Sharpe, &c. through man.......... Belsham. by a man................ Wiclif, Tyndal, Rheims Trans.; Wakefield. through a man........... Macknight. 1 Cor. xv. 47 ὁ δεύτερος άνθρωπος, ὁ Κύριος εξ ουρανου the second man [is] the Lord from heaven the second man, the Lord from heaven.... the second man [will be] from heaven the second man, from heaven, heavenly the second, a man from heaven, [was] heavenly the second man [will be] from heaven, heavenly Common Text. [See "Concessions of Trinitarians," in loc.] ....... Com. Ver. Rheims Trans. Belsham. Phil. ii. 7, 8: εν ὁμοιωματι ανθρωπων γενομενος, και σχηματι εὑρεθεις ὡς ανθρωπος in similitudine hominum factus, et habitu inventus ut homo.-Arias Montanus. in similitudine hominum constitutus, et figurâ repertus ut homo.-Erasmus. et se rendant semblable aux [autres] hommes. Ayant été trouvé en apparence comme un [autre] homme.-Le Clerc. ward gleich wie ein anderer Mensch, und an Geberden als ein Mensch erfunden.-Luther. and having been in the likeness of men; and having been found in condition as a man.-Coppe. being in the likeness of common men. And being in the condition of a common man.-Lindsey. and being in the likeness of ordinary men. And being in external condition as a man.-Carpenter. and becoming like [other] men. And being in condition like [another] man.-Belsham. and was as men are, and being in the common condition of man.-Norton. and becoming like men; and being found in condition as a man.-S. Sharpe. See "Concessions of Trinitarians," in loc.; Newcome Cappe's "Critical Remarks," vol. i. pp. 224— 238; Carpenter's "Unitarianism the Doctrine of the Gospel," third edit. pp. 207-210; and Belsham's "Exposition," in loc. (2) Called a Son of Man-the Son of Man. 13. By Christ himself. John v. 26, 27: "The Father hath given him authority to execute judgment also, because he is the Son of man."* "It is observed by Markland (Bowyer's 'Conjectures'), that it is not here vios Tov avoρarov, the humble appellation by which our Lord commonly distinguished himself, but simply vios av@pwrоv, without any article,-a common Hebraism, and still more common Syriasm, for a man, a human being. This phrase occurs in the same sense, Dan. vii. 13, and Rev. i. 13, and ought to be so rendered; but it oocurs nowhere in the Gospels, except in this passage."-DR. CAMPBELL: Translation of the Four Gospels. "In the oriental languages, the term Son of Man was used simply as equivalent to man. Of this, as every one knows, there are many examples in the Old and New Testament. In the Syriac version of the New Testament, this periphrasis not unfrequently occurs where only the word aveρwros, man, is used in the original. In this, which is, I conceive, the only sense of the term, it was used by Christ concern |