29 July 1816

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Ch 10 By Jesus how

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First in regard to the appetite for nourishment, taken in both its branches. In

relation to this subject we have something more than silence. That to the pleasures

of the table taken in both their branches Jesus neither had any aversion nor meant to

express any is altogether clear.

1. When good cheer is to be had, he partakes of it without reserve: he partakes of

it in any company by which it is presented / offered /. This facility being mentioned

to him as matter of reproach, he does not deny it / far from denying it /―he

justifies it. JB footnote marker (a) here

without footnote text. True it is that on this occasion a remark that may

be made is, that the justification was not simple / unlimited / and unqualified, but

qualified in respect of its being but as a means to an end: in the view of converting

those by whom it was offered―in this view and in this alone did he accept it.

29 July 1816 Folio 340 is a double sheet;

this text is on the third of the four sides.

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But another occasion there is to which this remark does not apply: and that is, one

of the occasions on which John surnamed the Baptist his cousin and precursor /

forerunner / John is spoken of. In relation to the gratification from this source /

pleasures of this class / John had attracted attention by the abstinence he practised

by the restraints he appeared to impose upon himself with the habits of this his

precursor and near relative Jesus himself presents / recognizes / his own as forming

a striking contrast. JB footnote marker (b)

here without footnote text.