Moses, before dying, foretold the calling of the Gentiles, Deut. xxxii, 21, and the reprobation of the Jews.

Moses foretold what would happen to each tribe.

Prophecy.—­“Your name shall be a curse unto mine elect, and I will give them another name.”

“Make their heart fat,"[270] and how? by flattering their lust and making them hope to satisfy it.

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Prophecy.—­Amos and Zechariah.  They have sold the just one, and therefore will not be recalled.—­Jesus Christ betrayed.

They shall no more remember Egypt.  See Is. xliii, 16, 17, 18, 19.  Jer. xxiii, 6, 7.

Prophecy.—­The Jews shall be scattered abroad.  Is. xxvii, 6.—­A new law, Jerem. xxxi, 32.

Malachi. Grotius.—­The second temple glorious.—­Jesus Christ will come.  Haggai ii, 7, 8, 9, 10.

The calling of the Gentiles.  Joel ii, 28.  Hosea ii, 24.  Deut. xxxii, 21.  Malachi i, 11.

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Hosea iii.—­Is. xlii, xlviii, liv, lx, lxi, last verse.  “I foretold it long since that they might know that it is I.”  Jaddus to Alexander.

716

[Prophecies.—­The promise that David will always have descendants.  Jer. xiii, 13.]

717

The eternal reign of the race of David, 2 Chron., by all the prophecies, and with an oath.  And it was not temporally fulfilled.  Jer. xxiii, 20.

718

We might perhaps think that, when the prophets foretold that the sceptre should not depart from Judah until the eternal King came, they spoke to flatter the people, and that their prophecy was proved false by Herod.  But to show that this was not their meaning, and that, on the contrary, they knew well that this temporal kingdom should cease, they said that they would be without a king and without a prince, and for a long time.  Hosea iii, 4.

719

Non habemus regem nisi Caesarem.[271] Therefore Jesus Christ was the Messiah, since they had no longer any king but a stranger, and would have no other.

720

We have no king but Caesar.

721

Daniel ii:  “All thy soothsayers and wise men cannot shew unto thee the secret which thou hast demanded.  But there is a God in heaven who can do so, and that hath revealed to thee in thy dream what shall be in the latter days,” (This dream must have caused him much misgiving.)

“And it is not by my own wisdom that I have knowledge of this secret, but by the revelation of this same God, that hath revealed it to me, to make it manifest in thy presence.

“Thy dream was then of this kind.  Thou sawest a great image, high and terrible, which stood before thee.  His head was of gold, his breast and arms of silver, his belly and his thighs of brass, his legs of iron, his feet part of iron and part of clay.  Thus thou sawest till that a stone was cut out without hands, which smote the image upon his feet, that were of iron and of clay, and brake them to pieces.