ETTER UPSILON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER TAU~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER RHO~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMICRON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER NU~}) for many" (Matt.
xx. 28, Mark x. 45). {~GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER NU~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER TAU~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER LAMDA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER UPSILON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER TAU~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER RHO~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMICRON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER NU~} is but once used in the New
Testament. Its gratification is a counter-price, or the ransom that
is paid when the life or person of one is given for that of another.
"For there is but one God and one mediator between God and men, the
man Christ Jesus, who gave himself a ransom ({~GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER NU~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER TAU~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER LAMDA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER UPSILON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER TAU~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER RHO~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMICRON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER NU~}) for all," 1
Tim. ii. 5, 6. Vide Leigh's Critica Sacra.--_Ed._]
302 [That is, proposed.--_Ed._]
303 [That is, however.--_Ed._]
304 [Verse 6.--_Ed._]
305 [That is, place it upon God or charge him with it.--_Ed._]
306 [That is, adorned itself.--_Ed._]
307 [_Scottice_ for _than_.--_Ed._]
308 [There is some obscurity in this sentence. The sentiment that is
expressed, however, seems to be this:--_Much love to a particular
object makes the act of seeking or praying for it to be loved
more._--_Ed._]
309 [That is, an earnest (_arrha_ Lat.).--_Ed._]
310 [Yule is a name that is still applied to Christmas, in the Northern
parts of England as well as in Scotland. "This name was originally
given to the great annual feast celebrated among the northern
nations, at the time of the winter solstice in honour of the sun.
Hence Odin was denominated Julvatter, or the _Father of Yule_."
(Jamieson's Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish language.) "He
praised God that he was born in such a time, as in the time of the
light of the gospel--to such a place as to be king of such a kirk,
the sincerest kirk of the world. The kirk of Geneva keep Pasch and
_Yule_; what have they for them? They have no institution. As for
our neighbour kirk in England their service is an evil sad mass in
English, they want nothing of the mass but the lifti
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