Prophecy.--Amos and Zechariah. They have sold the just one, and
therefore will not be recalled. Jesus Christ betrayed.
They shall no more remember Egypt. See Is. 43:16, 17, 18, 19. Jer. 23:6, 7.
Prophecy.--The Jews shall be scattered abroad. Is. 27:6. A new law, Jerem.
31:32.
Malachi. Grotius. The second temple glorious. Jesus Christ will come. Haggai
2:7, 8, 9, 10.
The calling of the Gentiles. Joel 2:28. Hosea 2:24. Deut. 32:21. Malachi
1:11.
716. Hosea 3.--Is. 42. 48. 44. 60. 61. last verse. "I foretold it long since
that they might know that it is I." Jaddus to Alexander.
717. Prophecies.--The promise that David will always have descendants. Jer.
13:13.
718. The eternal reign of the race of David, II Chron., by all the
prophecies, and with an oath. And it was not temporally fulfilled. Jer.
23:20.
719. We might perhaps think that, when the prophets foretold that the
sceptre should not depart from Judah until the eternal King came, they spoke
to flatter the people and that their prophecy was proved false by Herod. But
to show that this was not their meaning and that, on the contrary, they knew
well that this temporal kingdom should cease, they said that they would be
without a king and without a prince, and for a long time. Hosea 3:4.
720. Non habemus regem nisi Caesarem.[140] Therefore Jesus Christ was the
Messiah, since they had no longer any king but a stranger, and would have no
other.
721. We have no king but Caesar.
722. Daniel 2: "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
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