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Excerpt from The Works of John Locke, Vol. 7 of 9 I did not, when I reflected on it, very much wonder, that this part of facred feripture had difficulties in it many caufes of Obfcurity'did readily occur to me. The nature of epiftolary writings in general, difpofes the writer to fia'fs by the mentioning of many things, as well known to him; to whom his letter is addrelted, which are necefl'ary to be laid Open to a Granger, to make him comprehend what is faid: and it not feldom falls out, that a well-penned letter, which is very eafy and intelligible to the. Receiver, is very obfcure to, a firanger, who hardly knows what to make of it. The matters that St. Paul writ about, were certainly things well known to thofe he writ to, and which they had fome peculiar concern in; which made them eafily ap prehend his meaning, and fee the tendency and force of his difcourfe. But we having now, at this diflance, no information of the occafion of his writing, little or no knowledge of the temper and circumfiances thofe he writ to were in, but what is to be gathered out of the epifiles themfelves; it is not fliange, that many things in them lie concealed to us, ' which, no'doubt, they who were concernbd'in the. Letter, underftdbd at firit fight. Add to this, that in many places it is manifeft he an fwers letters (em, and quefiions pr0p0f d to him, which. If we had, would much better clear thofe paltages that relate to them, than all the learned notes ot'critics and commentators, who in after-times fill..us w ith their con iectures for very Often, as to the matter in hand, they are nothing elfe. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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