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• Genesis xlix: "Judah, thou art he whom thy brethren shall praise, and thou shalt conquer thine enemies; thy father's children shall bow down before thee. Judah is a lion's whelp: from the prey, my son, thou art gone up, and art couched as a lion, and as a lioness that shall be roused up. SECTION XI · ¶2318
• "The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come; and unto him shall the gathering of the people be." SECTION XI · ¶2319
• _During the life of the Messiah._--_Ænigmatis._--Ezek. xvii. SECTION XI · ¶2321
• He will be born an infant. Is. ix. SECTION XI · ¶2323
• He will be born in the village of Bethlehem. Micah v. He will appear chiefly in Jerusalem, and will be a descendant of the family of Judah and of David. SECTION XI · ¶2324
• He is to blind the learned and the wise, Is. vi, viii, xxix, etc.; and to preach the Gospel to the lowly, Is. xxix; to open the eyes of the blind, give health to the sick, and bring light to those that languish in darkness. Is. lxi. SECTION XI · ¶2325
• He is to show the perfect way, and be the teacher of the Gentiles. Is. lv; xlii, 1-7. SECTION XI · ¶2326
• The prophecies are to be unintelligible to the wicked, Dan. xii; Hosea xiv, 10; but they are to be intelligible to those who are well informed. SECTION XI · ¶2327
• The prophecies, which represent Him as poor, represent Him as master of the nations. Is. lii, 14, etc.; liii; Zech. ix, 9. SECTION XI · ¶2328
• He is to be the victim for the sins of the world. Is. xxxix, liii, etc. SECTION XI · ¶2330
• He is to be the precious corner-stone. Is. xxviii, 16. SECTION XI · ¶2331
• He is to be a stone of stumbling and offence. Is. viii. Jerusalem is to dash against this stone. SECTION XI · ¶2332
• The builders are to reject this stone. Ps. cxvii, 22. SECTION XI · ¶2333
• God is to make this stone the chief corner-stone. SECTION XI · ¶2334
• And this stone is to grow into a huge mountain, and fill the whole earth. Dan. ii. SECTION XI · ¶2335
• So He is to be rejected, despised, betrayed (Ps. cviii, 8), sold (Zech. xi, 12), spit upon, buffeted, mocked, afflicted in innumerable ways, given gall to drink (Ps. lxviii), pierced (Zech. xii), His feet and His hands pierced, slain, and lots cast for His raiment. SECTION XI · ¶2336
• He will raise again (Ps. xv) the third day (Hosea vi, 3). SECTION XI · ¶2337
• He will ascend to heaven to sit on the right hand. Ps. cx. SECTION XI · ¶2338
• The kings will arm themselves against Him. Ps. ii. SECTION XI · ¶2339
• Being on the right hand of the Father, He will be victorious over His enemies. SECTION XI · ¶2340
• The kings of the earth and all nations will worship Him. Is. lx. SECTION XI · ¶2341
• The Jews will continue as a nation. Jeremiah. SECTION XI · ¶2342
• They will wander, without kings, etc. (Hosea iii), without prophets (Amos), looking for salvation and finding it not (Isaiah). SECTION XI · ¶2343
• Calling of the Gentiles by Jesus Christ. Is. lii, 15; lv, 5; lx, etc. Ps. lxxxi. SECTION XI · ¶2344
• Hosea i, 9: "Ye are not my people, and I will not be your God, when ye are multiplied after the dispersion. In the places where it was said, Ye are not my people, I will call them my people." SECTION XI · ¶2345
• It was not lawful to sacrifice outside of Jerusalem, which was the place that the Lord had chosen, nor even to eat the tithes elsewhere. Deut. xii, 5, etc.; Deut. xiv, 23, etc.; xv, 20; xvi, 2, 7, 11, 15. SECTION XI · ¶2347
• Hosea foretold that they should be without a king, without a prince, without a sacrifice, and without an idol; and this prophecy is now fulfilled, as they cannot make a lawful sacrifice out of Jerusalem. SECTION XI · ¶2348
• ... That then idolatry would be overthrown; that this Messiah would cast down all idols, and bring men into the worship of the true God. SECTION XI · ¶2352
• That the temples of the idols would be cast down, and that among all nations, and in all places of the earth, He would be offered a pure sacrifice, not of beasts. SECTION XI · ¶2353
• _Prophecies._--That Jesus Christ will sit on the right hand, till God has subdued His enemies. SECTION XI · ¶2356
• Therefore He will not subdue them Himself. SECTION XI · ¶2357
• "... Then they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, saying, Here is the Lord, _for God shall make Himself known to all._"[273] SECTION XI · ¶2359
• "... Your sons shall prophesy."[274] "I will put my spirit and my fear _in your heart_." SECTION XI · ¶2360
• All that is the same thing. To prophesy is to speak of God, not from outward proofs, but from an inward and immediate feeling. SECTION XI · ¶2361
• That He would teach men the perfect way. SECTION XI · ¶2363
• And there has never come, before Him nor after Him, any man who has taught anything divine approaching to this. SECTION XI · ¶2364
• ... That Jesus Christ would be small in His beginning, and would then increase. The little stone of Daniel. SECTION XI · ¶2366
• _Transfixerunt._ Zech. xii, 10. SECTION XI · ¶2371
• ... Therefore I reject all other religions. In that way I find an answer to all objections. It is right that a God so pure should only reveal Himself to those whose hearts are purified. Hence this religion is lovable to me, and I find it now sufficiently justified by so divine a morality. But I find more in it. SECTION XII · ¶2375
• The prophets foretold, and were not foretold. The saints again were foretold, but did not foretell. Jesus Christ both foretold and was foretold. SECTION XII · ¶2383

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