1 CORINTHIANS XV. 46. "That was not first," &c. (UNITARIANISM.) "What becomes of that assertion, that Adam was created immortal? and how will it be made to consist with the Apostle's decision in this place? It will not be sufficient to allege, that he was created immortal, but that he lost this privilege by his offence; for the Apostle is evidently speaking of his formation, and refers to his being taken out of the ground, for which reason he calls him earthy. Adam then had an animal body before the fall—a body composed of flesh and blood, and of consequence mortal and corruptible." See Mr. Belsham's Translation, &c. Alexander. 1 CORINTHIANS XV. 47. "The first man is of the earth, earthy; the second man is the Lord from heaven." No. 1. An anonymous writer, who partly adopted the errors of Thedotus (See Note on Heb. v. 6.) concluded from the text, that there are men terrestrial and men celestial; and that, as St. Paul informs us, that Melchisedec was made like unto Jesus Christ, it follows, that Melchisedec was also a man celestial, which he concludes, clearly explains the Scriptural account of wise men coming to adore Jesus Christ. As the Scriptures enter into no detail of these wise men, the writer alluded to has concluded, that these wise men were three celestial men, viz. Melchisedec, Enoch, and Elias. See Diction. des Hérésies Art. Melchisédéciens. No. 2. (UNITARIANISM.) "The first man was from the ground, earthy: the second man will be from heaven, heavenly."-Unitarian Version. "The word Kupios (Lord) is wanting in the Vatican, Ephr. Clermont, and many other manuscripts, and in the most ancient versions; and is marked by Griesbach as probably an interpolation. The word oupavios (heavenly) is found in some good MSS. and in the Ethiopic and Vulgate versions. By introducing it, the latter clause of the verse better corresponds with the former. Marcion is accused by Tertullian of inserting the word Κύριος.” Note to the Unitarian Version. 1 CORINTHIANS XV. 52. "We shall be changed." (ORIGEN.) Origen supposed, that after the resurrection, all bodies will be of a round figure. Maelaine's Note. 1 CORINTHIANS XV. 53. "This mortal must put on immortality." (PHILOPONUS.) Philoponus maintained, that the form, as well as the matter, of all bodies, was generated and corrupted; and that both, therefore, were to be restored in the resurrection. Conon held, on the contrary, that the body never lost its form; that its matter alone was subject to corruption and decay, and was, consequently, to be restored when "this mortal shall put on immortality." Photii Biblioth. Cod. 24. Asseman. Biblioth. Orient. Vatian. tom. ii. p. 329. 1 CORINTHIANS xvi. 19. "The Church that is in their house.". (BROWNISTS.) Every church or society of Christians was, according to the Brownists *, a body corporate, hav * Robert Brown, the father of this sect, travelled up and down the country in company with his assistant, Richard Harrison, preaching against Bishops, Ceremonies, Ecclesiastical Courts, or ordaining of ministers, &c. [on which account he boasted of having been committed to thirty-two Prisons.] Brown afterwards settled at Middleburg, in Flushing, where he formed a church according to his own model. His followers became divided among themselves, insomuch that Brown being weary of his office, returned into England in the year 1589, and having renounced his principles of separation, became rector of a church in Northamptonshire. Notwithstanding the return of Brown to the Church of England, ing full power within itself to admit and exclude members, to choose and ordain officers; and when the good of the society required it, to depose them, without being accountable to classes, convocations, synods, councils, or any jurisdiction whatsoever. They denied the Church of England to be a true church, and her ministers to be rightly ordained. They maintained the discipline of the Church of England to be Popish and Anti-christian, and all her ordinances and sacraments invalid. Neal's History of the Puritans. his principles were adopted by many during the latter part of Queen Elizabeth's reign, and also by a considerable body of the Puritans in the next age. The Brownists did not differ from the Church of England in any Articles of Faith; but were very rigid and narrow in points of discipline. SECOND CORINTHIANS. 2 CORINTHIANS ii. 10. "I also." (ROMAN CATHOLICS.) "The Apostle here granted an indulgence, or pardon, in the person, and by the authority of Christ, to the incestuous Corinthian, whom before he had put under penance; which pardon consisted in a releasing of part of the temporal punishment due to his sin." Note to the Roman Catholic Version. No. 1. 2 CORINTHIANS ii. 11. "Satan." (CELSUS.) Celsus, the first Pagan writer against Christianity, casts an imputation upon the Christians for derogating from Divine Omnipotence, in that their hypothesis of an adversary power. "The Christians," he says, "are erroneously led into most wicked opinions concerning God, by rea |