The restoration of the Jews Author:David Brown 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: PART SECOND. CHAPTER I. THE GROUND CLEARED. Here let me state at once in what sense I propose to advocate the Restoration of the Jews. Not a shred of... more » Judaism do I expect to be restored. For no temple at Jerusalem do I look. Circumcision, priesthood, sacrifices, ritual separations and peculiarities, I hold to have been all done away in Christ, never more to be revived. If the Restoration of the Jews cannot be maintained without one or more of these Judaisms, I shall give it up; for not one of these things can I make consistent with the explicit testimony of Scripture, and the catholic character and spiritual genius of Christianity. But it is because I think the Restoration of the Jews is unjustly mixed up with them—because I think it has a ground of its own, and solid ground, to stand upon, when all these are swept off the stage of the Gospel economy and our system of divinity—and because, as it seems to me, the denial of it involves principles of interpretation which cannot be gone through with, puts a forced in place of a natural sense upon many passages, and leaves some things unexplained, which, on the opposite view, are clear and satisfying; it is because I take this view of the Restoration of the Jews that I am not able to give it up, and am, on the contrary, constrained to hold it fast. That the Restoration of the Jews, from all the places of their dispersion, is predicted clearly, repeatedly, and circumstantially in Scripture, is admitted on all hands. The only question is how this is to be understood—whether literally or figuratively; and, if literally, whether of a past or of a future restoration. On the literal view, there are two opposite extremes, some applying it nearly all to a past restoration, while others understand it all, in its full and proper se...« less