The Plymouth pilot. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1851-1852, 1851-11-05


told Mary he had mot vet ascended,'
&c. The ''Indianian" has exhausted his
criticisms on our remarks, about chang
ing the punctuation, we let these pass
after seeing that he has taken the respon-
sibility of subverting the plain sense of
words spoken by holy men as the spirit
gave them utterance, and after doing SO
undertakes to excuse himself on the
ground that other men have taken the
same course | care not what he may
say, neither what he may assume. con-
trary 10 plain declara tons, notwithstand-
ing he may be backed up by Rev. Luther
Lee. man must be hard pressed when
he has to resort to course like he did.
of perverting Psalms l46: 4. and Feel.
9: 5, 6. Now fol Phil. /: %. For |
am in strait" &c. In reply TO his ar
sument we say, that Paul points the
philippians to 1.-THE day of Christ. as
the time of their reward; and it would
be preposterous to suppose he expected
TO meet with his before them. His adj
dress to Timothy is proof of this. Paul
is not discussing his own fate, except so
far as Christ and his Gospel were invclv
ed. He says all his Affections, bonds and
imprisoEments had fnrthered the Gospel.
instead of retarding its progress. And
in reference TO this he makes one bold
and unmistakeabie declaration, that
Christ uiH be magnifed IN my tody.
whether by life or By death'-lt matter
ed not-this acould be tie result, Hav
ing thus driven the nail, he cllnches 1t by
saving, For me to live is Christi
will rebound to his glory, for Il am SET
for the defence of the Gospel" ''and to
die" in such cause, ami for ChriSts
sake, lis gain" not to me, Paul, but 10
Christ: for otherwise how could Christ
be masnified III my body by death! The
reader will please note the fact, that II
was in body." and not out OF it. nor IN
the spirit .wOrId,' that Christ was to
be magnifiet. But" says Paul IF |
live in the flesh, this is the fruit Of my
l. Dor: vet what | Snail choose | kaow
not" Why did he not know what to
choose? For" or because Il am in a
strait betwixt two." What "t,co," things
were these, between which he was in a
strait? Were they life and decti? Then
according to this view, lie did not know
which to Choose" life or death. "
While in this strait. therefore. what
choice did lie make? Did he choose life?
Did he make choice of death! No; for
between these he could nuke no selec-
ton: but there was third point in refer
ence to which he could, and did make
choice: and that was The returning and
b..ipg with Christ" which was far better
than life or dcdth. The 'lndianian'
SAYS. THAT TO depart Was to be with
Christ Immediately This is tile pninl
of his argument, aud it is pure assunp-
ton. as faithful exegesis OF the pas
sage will show; and as we think we have
already shown. That Paul expected to
..be with Christ III death. is not so
much as limited at in the whole para
graph, 1t was not departure that
Paul desired, but returning GAd icing
NTH Christ, a point totally distinct
from either dying or liuing iii the presrn:
state. If the .'lndianian" wants to prove
anything by ? Cor. 5: s, he must com
memce with the chapter and after he has
given his expositions Of The subject we
will notice it. for the subject begins
with the chapter. The "inlianians"
next proof is Rev. 6: Q. Where John
s.saw under the altar the souls of them
,het were slain for the word of Col"
&c. Upon this tex, | shall not dwell,
for it must be obvious to every intelli-
gent reader of the Scriptures, that John
gives a sgmJ0licaI description OF what
he saw; and that he speaks Of things
which had no real existence when he
saw them: and. theref fore. that they were
merely images, or symbols, repre- senting
other things, That John should see the
souls Of the martyrs under the altar, and
that these souls should be represented as
..crying with loud voice, is ali In per-
feet harmony with the whole subject.
The blood of Abel cried from the ground;
and the blood of Christ is said Ito speak
better things than the blool Of Abel"
and in perfect harmony with the nature
and decorum of the figure, the blood or
souls Of the saints, slain for the word
of God. is represented as being under
the altar" upon which we may suppose
they were sacrificed. The ''Indianian."
says eve will then compare this grain
of wheat sown to the resurrection." The
fl rst thing to be noticed is that he makes
the grain of wheat TO represent a man
buried-let us see, he burys the man in
the ground, but first takes the germ from
him and has it translated as far from him
as possible l need only ask is this the
way you use the grain of wheat, or is
the entire grain, body and germ put in
the ground together, we think it will
appear plain that he has subverted his