Second advent library

cuars'r's sxcotm comme. , 4]tunry and host." By Idfldulllj/,we must understand thotemple ut Jenisalem, and those who worship therein,which was trodden under thot b the Pagan kingdomsof the world, since the days oty Daniel, the writer ofonr text; then by the Chaldezms; alterwards b theMedea and Persians; next by the Grecians; and lastlyby the Romans, who destroyed the city and sunctnury, leveled the temple with the ground, and caused the ploughto pass over the place. The people ot' the Jews, too,were led into captivity and persecuted by ull these kingdomssuccessively, and finally by the Romans were takenaway and destroyedas a nation. And as thc prophetIsaiah, lxiii. 18, says, "The people of thy holinesshave possessed it but alittle while: our adversaries havetrodden down thy sanctuary." Jeremiah, also, in Lam.i. 10, "The adversary hath spread out his hand npnn allher pleasant things;for she hath seen that the heathenentered into her sanctuary, whom thou didst command thatthey shoulrl not enter into thy congregation." The wordhost is applied tothe people who worship in the outercourt, and fitly represents thc Christian church, who aresaid to be strangers and pilgrims on the earth,havin¥ nocontinuing places, but looking for a city whose bui derand maker is God. Jeremiah, speaking of the gnspelchurch, says, iii. 19, "But I said, How shall! put theeamong the children, and give thee a pleasant land, l.heritage of the host of nations ?" evidentlyguodtlhy meanmge church from the Gentiles. "Then shall thesanctuary be cleansed or menusjustified," the true sanctuarywhich God has built of lively stones to his own accepts.nce,thronghChrist, of which the temple at Jernsaem was but atype, the shadows having long sinceded away, and that temple and people now destroyed,and all included in unbelieti So whosoever looks forthe worldly sanctuary to be built again, will find themselvesas much mistaken as the unbeheving Jews were,when they looked for a temporal prince in the Messiah.For there is not a word in the prophets or apostles, alterZerubhabel built the second temple, that a third onewould ever be built; except the ono which cometh downHom heaven,wlfch is a spiritual one. and which is theI