appears to be indicated by the ex to hasty night from the city � of total destruction as it is not contained in the tj pe can apparently have been gathered only from result but in the first place tlie description in daniel with the expressions c b and r ix f xii which by and ia may easily be also understood of a total and secondly if once in with the sins of the nation the temple and city had been destroyed and the people carried iy captive every enthusiastic to whom the religious and moral condition of his appeared corrupt and might expect and a repetition of that former judgment according to this c en particulars in which as we have seen in the foregoing section his fellow in are not of a kind to oblige us to suppose either a su x or a on the all may be explained by a close consideration of is concerning the first destruction of in kings xxv on and there is only one point which as the author of this discourse could not have from any types but must have di entirely from himself namely tlie declaration that the catastrophe which he described would arrive within the resent generation this we must hesitate to derive from a supernatural knowledge for the reason already noticed that it is only half fulfilled while the other side of the fact the striking fulfilment of at least the one half of tlie prophecy might incline us to distrust the supposition of a merely natural calculation and to regard this determination of time aa a feature introduced into the discourse of after the issue it is clear from the passages at the conclusion of the last section that the themselves expected the return of christ to take place lifetime and it is not improbable tiiat also believed that this event with the ruin of the city and temple which according to daniel was to it was very near at hand the more general of the expectation namely the an caring at some future time in the clouds of heaven to awake the dead to sit in judgment and to found an everlasting kingdom would necessarily from a consideration of daniel where such a coming is ascribed to the son of man be contemplated by as a part of his own destiny so soon as he held t the life of je u to be the while with to the time it was natural that he not conceive a very long interval as destined to between his first coming in and hia second in glory one objection to the of the on the second advent is yet in e it has however less weight in our point of view than in that of the criticism of the this objection is derived from the absence of any detailed description of the second advent of in the gospel of it is that the elements of the doctrine of s return are plainly in the fourth gospel also t therein to himself the offices of the judgment and the of the dead john v � last is not indeed ed among the of the advent of t in the but not seldom appears in that elsewhere in tlie new c g xv iv when in the gospel sometimes that he is come into the world for judgment iii viii xii this only to his presence on earth and is limited by opposite in which that he is come into world for judgment ix viii to tiie sense that the object of his mission is not to condemn but to and tliat his judgment is not individual or partial that it consists not in an sentence proceeding from himself but in an act proceeding from the tendency of things a doctrine which is significantly expressed in the declaration that him who hears his word without believing he judges not but the wont which he has spoken shall e in he last day a bv iv r i a xii i when the of s gospel says of the ov he is not c f he shall not come into iii v this is to be understood of a judgment with a issue when on the contrary it is said of the rf k he is already iii this only means that the of the lot to each is not reserved until the future judgment at the end of all things since each one in his inward di j bears within himself the fate which is his due this does not a future so act of judgment wherein that which has at present only a latent existence will be made matter of awful revelation for in the very passage last quoted we the to condemnation and elsewhere the of future v f vi f associated with the last day and the in like manner says in also in the same in which he describes his return as a still future external catastrophe f he kingdom of god a not with observation f ie i t f the bearing on h � are collected and explained in c jf p ff i in lot and in ih tj i if op his advent shall they say lo here or lo there for the kingdom of god is you a certain of words uttered by the of john s gospel even to intimate tliat liis was not fur distant the expressions already mentioned in the farewell in wliich promises his not to leave but after having gone to the father shortly xvi to again to them xiv are not seldom understood of the return of christ at tjie last day but when we hear say of tliis same return that lie will reveal himself only to his and not to world xiv it is to of it as the return to judgment in which tliat he should reveal himself to good and bad 