The Works of Richard Hurd (Volume 4) (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1811 Excerpt: ... A LARGER DISCOURSE, BY WAY OF COMMENTARY, ON THAT REMARKABLE PART OF THE GOSPEL-HISTORY, IN WHICH JESUS IS REPRESENTED, AS DRIVING THE BUYERS AND SELLERS OUT OF THE TEMPLE. DISCOURSE' ON CHRIST'S DRIVING THE BUYERS AND SELLERS OUT OF THE TEMPLE. 1 PROPOSE, in this discourse, to take into consideration a very remarkable part of the Gospel-history; in which Jesus is supposed to have exercised an act of authority on some persons, whom the Jews permitted to carry on a certain traffic within the walls of the Temple. I shall, First, recite the several accounts, which the sacred historians have given of this transaction; and shall, Then, hazard some observations, which will, perhaps, be found to lessen, or to remove, the objections commonly made to it. a The substance of this Discourse was delivered in a Sermon at Lincoln's-Inn, May 15, 1768. VOL. VII. C C I begin with St John's account of it, which is delivered in these words: Ch. ii. 13--17. "And the Jews passover was - at hand, and Jesus went up to "Jerusalem, and found in the "temple those that sold oxen, "and sheep, and doves, and the "changers of money, sitting i "And when he had made a "scourge of small cords, he "drove them all out of the tem"pie, and the sheep and the "oxen; and poured out the "changers money, and over?' threw the tables; and said "unto them that sold doves, "Takethese things hence; make "not my Father's house an house "of merchandize. And his dis"ciples remembered that it was "written, The zeal of thine "house hath eaten me up." Thus far the Evangelist, St. John: And the order of the history shews, that this was done at thejirst Passover which Jesus attended, after he had taken upon himself his prophetic office. The other Evangelists relate a similar transaction, which had happened ...