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The Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah Vol 1 - Predestination

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corresponding to those which an earthly monarch<br />

would show."<br />

All this is to be gloriously set right, when <strong>the</strong> Lord<br />

tumeth <strong>the</strong> captivity <strong>of</strong> Zion, <strong>and</strong> <strong>the</strong> <strong>Messiah</strong><br />

cometh. But when mwy He be esffpectedj <strong>and</strong> what<br />

are <strong>the</strong> signs <strong>of</strong> His coming ? Or perhaps <strong>the</strong><br />

question should thus be put: Why a/re <strong>the</strong><br />

redemption <strong>of</strong> Israel <strong>and</strong> <strong>the</strong> coming <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> <strong>Messiah</strong><br />

so unaccountably delayed f It is here<br />

> This is ihfi Pcsiqta, not that which ia generaUy<br />

qaoted ei<strong>the</strong>r as Habbathi or Sutarta,<br />

* This in very many Bahbinical pas-sages. Comp.<br />

CatteUi^ H Messia, p. 17S, note 4. . ' In pro<strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>y<br />

appeal to suoh passages<br />

as 2 Chr. tU. 16; Ps. iU. 4; Cant it 9, proving it<br />

even from <strong>the</strong> decree <strong>of</strong> Ojroa (Ezra i. 8, 4), in<br />

which God is spoken <strong>of</strong> as still in desolate<br />

Jemsalem.

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