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tween his feet until Shiloh come I;
and unto him shall the gathering of
the people be-" Gen. Xix, 10.
"From the going forth Of the COM
Inandment to restore and to build
Jerusalem unto the Messiah, the
Prince, shall be seven weeks and
] three score and two weeks" Dan.
tx, 25. /.
!. t"The Lord whom ye seek shall
CONS suddenly to his temple, even
tho messenger Of The covenant,
whom ye delight in." Nal. iii, 1.
"The glory of this latter house
J shall he greater than Of the former"
Haggai ii, 8.
"Therefore the Lord himself shall
give you a sign: Behold virgin
shall conceive and bear son and
shall call his name Immanuel."
Isaiah vii, ID.
"But thou Bethlehem Ephratah,
though thou be little among the
thousands Of Judah, yet out of thee
shall he come forth unto me that is
to be ruler in Israel; whose goings
forth have been from of old, from
everlasting" Micah v, 2.
Matthew, seven years after the
death of Christ, and Luke twenty
three years later, stated that in obe-
dience to decree of the Roman
government, Joseph and Mary went
up at a certain time to Bethlehem tc
be taxed, because they were Of tho
house of David, and that while there
Mary gave birth to Christ; that
certain wise men went to Herod
and told him they were hunting the
child to worship him; that Herod
inquired for the. child, but not hav-
ing found him, and to make sure of
his death, he had all the children in
and near Bethlehem, two years old
and under, killed. This was the
time that the Jews, from their pro-
phecics, were expecting the advent
of the Messiah. They had carefully
kept genealogies and the Roman de-
cree was matter of record, be-
sides the killing of all the children
in and near town forty years be-
fore could not have been forgotten
when Matthew wrote and these tests
, were easily obtained and if his state.
, ments'had been untrue they would
; have been exposed both by the
, Christ hating Jew and resented by
t the proud Roman rs an insult to his
nation,
, Neither denied 1t. 1t must be
, true. A child was born when, where
and of the family foretold, and
7 which was claimed to be tho Mes.
siah. Would any Jew, having the
prophecies before him, have dared tc
claim for the child that he would
J fulfill the character prophesied fol
, the Messiah9 Would he not, with
, the Jewish Interpretation, have in
stilled different ideas in his head
!, from those taught Christ If he
; had the Christian Interpretation
| would he have dared claim it with.
; out evidence? Would any Naza.
} rene have thought to announce his
, child as the Christ unless inspired tc
it by God himselfp Thus corrobo.
{ rated who could fail to believe the
, account of the evangelists, which
shows complete fulillment of al
, the prophecies concerning the ma
; tivity.
!, The following prophecies arc SC
i, distinctly Messianio that there i.
8 no room to doubt, viz:
| Moses says in Deuteronomy xviii
8 IS: "The / ord thy God will raise
) up unto thee prophet from thu
8 midst of thee, of thy brethren, unto
: him shall ye hearken."
And Isaiah XII, lilo: "And there
) shall come forth rod out of the stem
: of Jesse, and branch shall grow ou
l of his roots; and the spirit Of the
8 Lord shall rest upon him, the spirit
= of wisdom and understanding, the
l spirit of counsel and might, the
! spirit of knowledge and of the fea,
: of tho Lord; and shall make him o1
: quick understanding in the fear o.
3 the Lord; and he shall not judge
after the sight of his eyes, ncithe,
. reprove aftor the hearing of his ears
but with righteousness shall he judge
the poor, and reprove with equity
8 for the meek of the earth; and he
| shall smite the earth with the rod Of
t his mouth and with the breath of his
q. lips shall he slay tho wicked. And
righteousness shall be tho girdlc Of
his loins and faithfulness tho girdIe