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The accomplishment of scripture prophecies
The accomplishment of scripture prophecies Author:William Whiston Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: truth begins already to be too cleat- tOi be hid any longer and becaufe I can eafily refer to other great Writers, who have treated to good purpofe on this Hea... more »d 5' and becaufe arty- Impartial Man , who runs over all thefe Ancient Predidtions and compares them with the Hiftory and Prophecies of 'the New-Teftament, will not fail to makejhe fame Reflection him felf. XIII. The Prophecies of the Old Tc- ftament at all appertaining to the Mef- fiasi particularly thofc which are quoted as.; Testimonies and Arguments in the- New Teftamentj do properly and folely belong to the MefTias ; and did not at all concern any other Perfon and are therefore juftlyj on, good grounds, alledg'd to that purpbfe by our Savior and his Apoilles. 1 do not here undertake to account for all the Quotations of Sc. Tattl out of the Old Teftament in hi Epiftlcs) not only becaufe his Stile is peculiar, and He together with his Fellow-worker St. Barnabas, did more than all the reft make ufe of allegorical Notions and Interpretations then own'd; among theJy but alfo becaufe few op none of his Quotations of this Nature or allufions,are taken from the Scripture Prophecies , bat generally either from the tJijlories or Ceremonies therein eon- tain'd, which I'take to be quite of a- .ilother nature, and deferves a particular enquiry,too large for this place. Butthea this is not at all the Cafe in the Writings of the four Evangelifts, where the Quotations I chiefly refer to are found. They there alledge them as proofs of our Savior's being the true Meflias, becaufc fo many of the Old Prophecies were ful- fill'd in him. They Ipmetimes relate their being fo quoted by bur Blefled Savior himfelf, in his own words, to the very fame purpofe and they generally life that moft determinate Expreflion, 'A or amis xu?/03-ijf,...« less