power of a few words, to a hundred million ignorant men.
The rich left their wealth. Children left the dainty homes of their parents
to go into the rough desert. (See Philo the Jew.) All this was foretold a
great while ago. For two thousand years no heathen had worshipped the God of
the Jews; and at the time foretold, a great number of the heathen worshipped
this only God. The temples were destroyed. The very kings made submission to
the cross. All this was due to the Spirit of God, which was spread abroad
upon the earth.
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.
725. Prophecies.--The conversion of the Egyptians (Isaiah 19:19); an altar
in Egypt to the true God.
726. Prophecies.--In Egypt. Pugio Fidei, p. 659. Talmud. "It is a tradition
among us, that, when the Messiah shall come, the house of God, destined for
the dispensation of His Word, shall be full of filth and impurity; and that
the wisdom of the scribes shall be corrupt and rotten. Those who shall be
afraid to sin, shall be rejected by the people, and treated as senseless
fools."
Is. xlix: "Listen, O isles, unto me, and hearken, ye people, from afar: The
Lord hath called me by my name from the womb of my mother; in the shadow of
His hand hath He hid me, and hath made my words like a sharp sword, and said
unto me, Thou art my servant in whom I will be glorified. Then I said, Lord,
have I laboured in vain? have I spent my strength for nought? yet surely my
judgment is with Thee, O Lord, and my work with Thee. And now, saith the
Lord, that formed me from the womb to be His servant, to bring Jacob and
Israel again to Him, Thou shalt be glorious in my sight,
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