The Golden Chain - Robert J. Wieland
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A careful reading of Melville and Winslow<br />
raises the question whether they disengaged<br />
themselves from Augustinian "original sin." In the<br />
19th century, few Anglicans or Presbyterians could<br />
do so. Poirier quotes Melville:<br />
"Whilst [Christ] took humanity with the<br />
innocent infirmities, He did not take it with the<br />
sinful propensities. Here Deity interposed. <strong>The</strong><br />
Holy Ghost overshadowed the virgin, and,<br />
allowing weakness to be derived from her, forbade<br />
wickedness, and so caused that there should be<br />
generated a sorrowing and a suffering humanity,<br />
but nevertheless an undefiled and a spotless....<br />
[Thus] Christ's humanity was not... in every respect<br />
the humanity of Adam after the Ml" (idem.).<br />
It is interesting that in Ellen White's use of<br />
phraseology from this Anglican writer she<br />
carefully avoided this tincture of Roman<br />
Catholicism that was implicit therein. Part of Ellen<br />
White's gift was to adapt what best expressed her<br />
thought and to leave untouched what was contrary<br />
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