William Ellery Channing
Published: 2013-09
Total Pages: 366
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1815 edition. Excerpt: ...for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in th.e'depths of the sea. Voe unto the world because of offences; for it must needs be that offences come, but woe to that man by whom the ofl'ence_ cometh. In order to ebmprehend the full meaning of this denunciation, it will be necessary to explain the peculiar meaning ofthe_ word o_fi'encl. This expression its the present passage as well as many other parts of the New Testament, signifies to cause any: one tofallfrom hisfaitk, to re-_ uonnce his beliefin Christ." '. TheBi'shop adverts to the seweral modes of making our brother Dr. Porteus on Matthew xriii. 1--14..371 572 Dr; Porteus on Jfotthcw xviii. to qfmd; that is, to renounce his faith: in Christ, and these are persecution, sophistry, ridicule, llIID0l'l1l examples, and immoral publications. After considering each of the above modes of mak. ing our brother to offend, he ohserves: -'-I have dwelt the longer on this interesting topic, because few people are aware of the enormity of the sin here reproved by our Lord, of the irreparable injury it ma-y do to others, and of the danger to which itexposes themselves. But when they reflect that by the commission of this crime they endanger the present peace and the future salvation of their fellow creatures, and expose themselves to the woes which our Lord has in the passage before us denounced against those from whom these olfeuces come, they will probably feel? it their-duty to be more guarded in this instance than men generally are. 'Our Lord, after having said "Woe to the world because of ofl'ences, for it must needs be that ottences come, but woe to that man by whom the offence cometh" adds, Wherefore if thy hand or...