[32] Quite ineffectual, at the very close of this unhappy composition, as a set off to the compacted and often repeated asseverations of his earlier pages, is the amiable author's plaintive plea for "even the perverted use of the Bible;" adding,--"And meanwhile, how utterly impossible it would be in the manhood of the world to imagine any other instructor of mankind!" (p. 47.) It is one of the favourite devices of these seven writers, side by side with their most objectionable statements, to insert isolated passages of admitted truth,--and occasionally even of considerable beauty: which however are _utterly meaningless_ and out of place where they stand; and (like the sentence above written,) powerless to undo the circumstantial wickedness of what went before. I repeat, that the words above-written are meaningless _where they stand_: for if Dr. Temple really means that it is "_utterly impossible in the manhood of the world to IMAGINE any other instructor of mankind_" than THE BIBLE,--what becomes of his Essay? [33] _παρα_τηρεῖσθε: i.e. "ye _mis_observe," "keep _in a wrong way_." [34] Gal. iv. 1-10. [35] Gal. iii. 24, 25. [36] Gal. v. 1. [37] 2 St. John v. 10, 11. [38] Rom. viii. 21. [39] It is presumed that the article in the _Dict. of Antiquities_ will be held unexceptionable authority as to the office of the παιδαγωγός.--"Rex filio pædagogum constituit, et singulis diebus ad eum invisit, interrogans eum: Num comedit filius meus? _num in scholam abiit? num ex scholâ rediit_?"--Wetstein, in loc.--So Plato _Lysis_, p. 118. [40] 1 St. Peter ii. 21. Comp. St. James v. 10. [41] 1 Cor. xi. 1: iv. 16. Phil. iii. 17. 2 Thess. iii. 9. Heb. xiii. 7, &c. [42] 1 St. Pet. i. 11. [43] 1 Tim. i. 10: iv. 6. Tit. i. 9: ii. 1. Comp. 2 St. John v. 10. [44] 2 Tim. i. 13. [45] 2 Tim. i. 13, 14: ii. 2. Also 1 Tim. vi. 20. On both places, Dr. Wordsworth's _Notes_ may be consulted with advantage. [46] 2 Tim. iv. 3. [47] 2 Thess. ii. 7, 8, &c. [48] Art. XX. [49] Art. VIII. [50] I allude especially to the terrible castigation he has individually received at the hands of the Bishop of Exeter. See _the Times_, of March 4th, 1861. [51] "And when the Angel stretched out his hand upon Jerusalem to destroy it, the LORD ... said to the Angel that destroyed the people," &c. "And the Angel of the LORD was by the threshing-place of Araunah the Jebusite."--2 Sam. xxiv. 16. "The Angel of the LORD stood by the threshing-floor of Ornan the Jebusite. And David lifted up his eyes, and saw the Angel of the LORD stand between the Earth and the Heaven, having a drawn sword in his hand stretched out over Jerusalem."--1 Chron. xxi. 15, 16. [52] Acts i. 20. [53] _On the Creed_, Art. iv. p. 244, _notes_ (_u_) and (_x_). [54] "It would take no great space," (says Dr. Pusey,) "to shew that the rendering 'as a lion,' is unmeaning, without authority, against authority; while the rendering 'they pierced' is borne out alike by authority and language."