1818 Jan y 28

Not Paul

III Doctrine

Ch Mysticism

8

§ Lord’s Supper

Not only in this way / thus / upon Paul’s rhetoric, but upon his logic is / has / an improvement been made by the genius of Church of Englandism. Where Paul goes not beyond indication of analogy or connection at large―and that analogy so remote that the greatest magnifier would be too little for the discovery of it, that of the word of which the translators have given / give / indication is connection: connection of the logical kind no less intimate than that between premises and conclusion between antecedent and consequent. ‘For’ (says verse 26) Marginal note at this point: ‘I. Cor. XI 26’. For as often as ye eat this bread and drink this cup ye do shew (or shew ye says the marginal note) the Lord’s death till he come. Wherefore

Marginal note at this point: ‘ N.B. till he come’. (says verse the 27 th and next) Marginal note at this point: ‘I Cor. XI. 27. 28.’ whosoever shall eat this bread and drink {this} cup of the Lord unworthily, Marginal note at this point: ‘αναξιως’. [Greek for ‘unworthily’.] shall be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord.’ Marginal note at this point: ‘ενοχος’. [Greek for ‘liable, subject to’.] ‘ Wherefore’ says the original / translation /: ωστε; viz. also, is at the utmost accordingly: for in truth, employed as it may here seem to be employed, rather for the mellowing of the sound does it seem to be employed than for the making any addition to the sense.

But, where the forms of argument / argumentation / are employed, the eyes of the cursory reader―and not only then were but still such are the generality of eyes especially if / where /, as usual, the state in which his mind applies to it be in the usual prostrate state―see the essence: at the end of a mathematical discourse, where it / they / sees the letters Q.e.d. it sees / they see / mathematical demonstration: in the belly of a religious or political discourse where it sees words such as / they see any such conjunctions as / for, therefore or because, it sees / they see / logical demonstration, and thus it is that the reason of that system of law, which is so much above reason in one sense and so much beneath it in another, is rendered plain to / in the eyes of / so many of the readers of Blackstone’s Commentaries.