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Blaise Pascal · الترخيص: Public domain · المصدر

• "Make their heart fat,"[270] and how? by flattering their lust and making them hope to satisfy it. SECTION XI · ¶2236
• _Prophecy._--Amos and Zechariah. They have sold the just one, and therefore will not be recalled.--Jesus Christ betrayed. SECTION XI · ¶2238
• They shall no more remember Egypt. See Is. xliii, 16, 17, 18, 19. Jer. xxiii, 6, 7. SECTION XI · ¶2239
• _Prophecy._--The Jews shall be scattered abroad. Is. xxvii, 6.--A new law, Jerem. xxxi, 32. SECTION XI · ¶2240
• Malachi. _Grotius._--The second temple glorious.--Jesus Christ will come. Haggai ii, 7, 8, 9, 10. SECTION XI · ¶2241
• The calling of the Gentiles. Joel ii, 28. Hosea ii, 24. Deut. xxxii, 21. Malachi i, 11. SECTION XI · ¶2242
• Hosea iii.--Is. xlii, xlviii, liv, lx, lxi, last verse. "I foretold it long since that they might know that it is I." Jaddus to Alexander. SECTION XI · ¶2244
• The eternal reign of the race of David, 2 Chron., by all the prophecies, and with an oath. And it was not temporally fulfilled. Jer. xxiii, 20. SECTION XI · ¶2248
• _Non habemus regem nisi Cæsarem._[271] Therefore Jesus Christ was the Messiah, since they had no longer any king but a stranger, and would have no other. SECTION XI · ¶2252
• Daniel ii: "All thy soothsayers and wise men cannot shew unto thee the secret which thou hast demanded. But there is a God in heaven who can do so, and that hath revealed to thee in thy dream what shall be in the latter days," (This dream must have caused him much misgiving.) SECTION XI · ¶2256
• "And it is not by my own wisdom that I have knowledge of this secret, but by the revelation of this same God, that hath revealed it to me, to make it manifest in thy presence. SECTION XI · ¶2257
• "Then was the iron, the clay, the brass, the silver, and the gold broken to pieces together, and the wind carried them away; but this stone that smote the image became a great mountain, and filled the whole earth. This is the dream, and now I will give thee the interpretation thereof. SECTION XI · ¶2259
• "Thou who art the greatest of kings, and to whom God hath given a power so vast that thou art renowned among all peoples, art the head of gold which thou hast seen. But after thee shall arise another kingdom inferior to thee, and another third kingdom of brass, which shall bear rule over all the earth. SECTION XI · ¶2260
• "But the fourth kingdom shall be strong as iron, and even as iron breaketh in pieces and subdueth all things, so shall this empire break in pieces and bruise all. SECTION XI · ¶2261
• "And whereas thou sawest the feet and toes, part of clay and part of iron, the kingdom shall be divided; but there shall be in it of the strength of iron and of the weakness of clay. SECTION XI · ¶2262
• "But as iron cannot be firmly mixed with clay, so they who are represented by the iron and by the clay, shall not cleave one to another though united by marriage. SECTION XI · ¶2263
• "Then Nebuchadnezzar fell upon his face towards the earth," etc. SECTION XI · ¶2265
• "This is what Daniel saw. He sought the meaning of it, and a voice cried in this manner, 'Gabriel, make this man to understand the vision,' And Gabriel said: SECTION XI · ¶2267
• "The ram which thou sawest is the king of the Medes and Persians, and the he-goat is the king of Greece, and the great horn that is between his eyes is the first king of this monarchy. SECTION XI · ¶2268
• "Now that being broken, whereas four stood up for it, four kingdoms shall stand up out of the nation, but not in his power. SECTION XI · ¶2269
• Daniel xi. "The angel said to Daniel: There shall stand up yet," (after Cyrus, under whom this still is), "three kings in Persia," (Cambyses, Smerdis, Darius); "and the fourth who shall then come," (Xerxes) "shall be far richer than they all, and far stronger, and shall stir up all his people against the Greeks. SECTION XI · ¶2275
• "And the king of the south," (Ptolemy, son of Lagos, Egypt), "shall be strong; but one of his princes shall be strong above him, and his dominion shall be a great dominion," (Seleucus, King of Syria. Appian says that he was the most powerful of Alexander's successors). SECTION XI · ¶2277
• "But neither she nor her seed shall have a long authority; for she and they that brought her, and her children, and her friends, shall be delivered to death." (Berenice and her son were killed by Seleucus Callinicus.) SECTION XI · ¶2279
• _Prophecies._--The seventy weeks of Daniel are ambiguous as regards the term of commencement, because of the terms of the prophecy; and as regards the term of conclusion, because of the differences among chronologists. But all this difference extends only to two hundred years. SECTION XI · ¶2285
• No heathen, since Moses until Jesus Christ, believed according to the very Rabbis. A great number of the heathen, after Jesus Christ, believed in the books of Moses, kept them in substance and spirit, and only rejected what was useless. SECTION XI · ¶2290
• _Prophecies._--The conversion of the Egyptians (Isaiah xix, 19); an altar in Egypt to the true God. SECTION XI · ¶2292
• _Prophecies._--_In Egypt._--_Pugio Fidei_, p. 659. _Talmud._ SECTION XI · ¶2294
• "Thus saith the Lord: What is the bill of this divorcement, wherewith I have put away the synagogue? and why have I delivered it into the hands of your enemies? Is it not for your iniquities and for your transgressions that I have put it away? SECTION XI · ¶2299
• "For I came, and no man received me; I called and there was none to hear. Is my arm shortened, that I cannot redeem? SECTION XI · ¶2300
• "Therefore I will show the tokens of mine anger; I will clothe the heavens with darkness, and make sackcloth their covering. SECTION XI · ¶2301
• "The Lord hath given me the tongue of the learned that I should know how to speak a word in season to him that is weary. He hath opened mine ear, and I have listened to Him as a master. SECTION XI · ¶2302
• "The Lord hath revealed His will, and I was not rebellious. SECTION XI · ¶2303
• "I gave my body to the smiters, and my cheeks to outrage; I hid not my face from shame and spitting. But the Lord hath helped me; therefore I have not been confounded. SECTION XI · ¶2304
• "He is near that justifieth me; who will contend with me? who will be mine adversary, and accuse me of sin, God himself being my protector? SECTION XI · ¶2305
• "Hearken unto me, my people, and give ear unto me: for a law shall proceed from me, and I will make my judgment to rest for a light of the Gentiles." SECTION XI · ¶2308
• Amos viii. The prophet, having enumerated the sins of Israel, said that God had sworn to take vengeance on them. SECTION XI · ¶2309
• He says this: "And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord, that I will cause the sun to go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the clear day; and I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation. SECTION XI · ¶2310
• "In that day shall the fair virgins and young men faint for thirst. They that have followed the idols of Samaria, and sworn by the god of Dan, and followed the manner of Beersheba, shall fall, and never rise up again." SECTION XI · ¶2312
• Amos iii, 2: "Ye only have I known of all the families of the earth for my people." SECTION XI · ¶2313
• Daniel xii, 7. Having described all the extent of the reign of the Messiah, he says: "All these things shall be finished, when the scattering of the people of Israel shall be accomplished." SECTION XI · ¶2314

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