Second advent library

_cnms'r's ucozm couture.In this passage, must mean Christ; for no human beingcan, or ought to claim this appellation, save him whomGod hath anointed to be a Savior in Israel, and aKingin Zion. See Acts x. 38, "How God anointed Jesusof Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and withAlso, power."Acts iv. 27, " For of n truth against thv ho childJesus, whom thou hast anointed, both Herod and' PontiusPilate, with the Gentiles, und the people of Israel,were gathered together, for to do whatsoever thyhand and counsel determined before to be done."Heb. i. 9, thly "herefbre God, even thy God, hath anointedthee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows."It will next be requisite to inquire, When was Christnnointed ?I ansver, VVhen the Holy Ghost descended upon him,and when he was endued with power from onhigh towork miracles. See Isa. lxi. 1, "The Spirit of the LordGod is upon me; because the Lord hath anointed me toreach good tidings unto 1.-he meek: he`hath sent me tohind up the broken-hearted, to proclaim liberty to thecaptives, and the opening of the prison to them that arebound."Alter Christ wasbaptized by John, and after beingtempted of the devil forty days in the wilderness, hewent in the spirit into Galilee, and on the Sabbath dayhe went into the synagogue,as his custom was, and hestood u torearL They gave him the book of Isaiah.When Ee opened the book he found the passage whichI have just quoted. After reading it he shut up thebook and sat down. He then began to say unto them,"This day is this scripture fulfilled in your ears," Lukeiv. 1-21. This plainly proves that Christ wasanointed on or before passaéieis day.Other things were to be done in the seventy weeks,such as, The cutting elf of the Messiah, but not forhimselfl This can meannothing less than the crucihxionof Christ. See Luke xxiv. 26, 46, "Ought notChrist to have suH`ered these things, and to enter; intohisglory P " "Thus it is written, and thus it behoovedChrist to suB`er, and to rise from the deed the thirdRom. v. 6, " For when we were without strength, indeff."us