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obviously foretold.*

Moses uses the term both in the beginning of the passage, and at its conclusion :-" When the Lord saw it," (that is, their impiety and forgetfulness of him,) "he abhorred them, because of the provoking of his sons and of his daughters. And he said, I will hide my face from them, I will see what their end shall be."+ The term here translated end, in the words of Moses, is, in the original, the one referred to; and he employs it again in the earnest prayer for the well-being of his people, with which, in the succeeding 29th verse, he closes up the prediction of their calamities :-" Oh! that they were wise, that they understood this; that they would consider their latter end!”

Moses, in some of his terms, in this prediction, characterises the generation, whose calamities he foretells, in accordance with the character given of it by Daniel :— "They are a very froward generation, children in whom is no faith."+ "They are a nation void of counsel neither is there any understanding in them."§ How closely does this agree in sense with the predictions of Daniel, "The wicked shall do wickedly, and none of the wicked shall understand?" The calamities, foretold by Moses, in this passage, also well agree with the unexampled trouble predicted by Daniel, and with the destruction of the holy people, and of the city and sanctuary, by hostile armies. "The sword without," says Moses," and terror within, shall destroy both the young man and the virgin, the suckling also, and the man of

* Deuteronomy xxxii. 19-29.

Deut. xxxii. 20.

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+ Deut. xxxii. 19, 20. § Deut. xxxii. 28.

gray hairs."* The dispersion, also, is here foretold by him, in terms as descriptive of its completeness, as those of Daniel :—" I said, I would scatter them into corners, I would make the remembrance of them to cease from among men; Were it not that I feared the wrath of the enemy, lest their adversaries should behave themselves strangely, and lest they should say, Our high hand, and not the Lord, hath done this."+ In the long prediction of Moses, in the twenty-eighth chapter of Deuteronomy, of the future calamities that should befal the Israelites on account of their sins,—and which, all have agreed, refers chiefly to the final calamities, inflicted on them by the Roman armies, as it concludes with saying, they should be brought into Egypt again in ships, which occurred to the prisoners taken by Titus,—the dispersion is also predicted, and the same term employed to express it that is used by Daniel : "The Lord shall scatter thee among all people, from the one end of the earth even unto the other"-(verse 64.) In the same chapter, also, there is another prediction, which, we believe, cannot be shewn to have been literally fulfilled, but in the instance of Herod the Great, and his family. It is in the 43d and 44th verses :-"The stranger that is within thee shall get up above thee very high; and thou shalt come down very low. He shall lend to thee, and thou shalt not lend to him: He shall be the head, and thou shalt be the tail." Herod, a descendant of the Idumeans, whose fathers, in the terms of Daniel, "knew not God," was a stranger within

* Deut. xxxii. 25.

+ Deut. xxxii. 26, 27, marginal reading.

the Jewish community, outwardly professing their religion, and enjoying the privileges of their nation. His father, Antipater, was very rich.* He himself became their sovereign head, and drew into his treasuries all their wealth; so that, upon occasion of a famine in the land, they had no means of making provision against the calamity, but by the money he advanced to them, for that purpose. As Herod got up above them very high, so they came down very low; for as his elevation was obtained by the favour of the Romans, that artful people secured, through him, such an influence over Judea, that, soon after his death, they were enabled quietly to reduce it to the form of a province.‡

It would be only to repeat what is already ably demonstrated by many writers, and is fully known and acknowledged, were we to shew, in detail, that the Scripture of truth contains predictions of other infinitely more important events, predicted also in the last vision of Daniel-the advent of Christ-the deliverance he wrought for mankind. the divine knowledge he communicated-his addressing himself first to the Jews-and the calling of the Gentiles. Besides, this branch of the subject is, in particular, infinitely too extensive and important, to admit of a suitable detail, in this short essay; and we refrain from entering into it at large. But there is another signal prophecy of Moses, so remarkably agreeing, in its tenor, with the first verses of Daniel's twelfth chapter, as now interpreted, that we will refer very briefly to the agree

*Josephus' Antiq. xiv. 1, 3.

+ Josephus' Antiq. xv. 9. Josephus' Wars, ii. 8.

ments. It is the prophecy in the eighteenth chapter of Deuteronomy, in the eighteenth and nineteenth verses ; which is quoted by both the Apostle Peter, and Stephen, as a prediction of Christ.* "I will raise them up a Prophet from among their brethren, like unto thee, and will put my words in his mouth; and he shall speak unto them all that I shall command him. And it shall come to pass, that whosoever will not hearken unto my words, which he shall speak in my name, I will require it of him." We perceive at once,-that the "Prophet, raised up among their brethren," corresponds with "Michael the great Prince, who standeth for the children of Daniel's people;"-that the threatening, "whosoever will not hearken unto my words, which he shall speak in my name, I will require it of him," agrees with the prediction of "a time of trouble ;"-and that the announcement, "I will put my words in his mouth, and he shall speak unto them all that I shall command him," agrees with the predictions, in Daniel, of great light, and increase of knowledge.

In another Section, we will briefly present, by themselves, some interesting results, arising from the whole tenor of these illustrations.

*Acts iii. 22; and vii. 37.

SECTION VI.

CONTENTS.-Great number of close agreements, between the latter part of the prophecy and a continuous train of events recorded in history. Tabular view of the agreements. They are too numerous to be the results of chance.-The explanation of Porphyry, and other adversaries of the Christian Faith, inadmissible here; for Christians and Jews could not have combined to add this part to Daniel, after the events took place. The prophecy thus conclusively proves itself to be a revelation of God.

It will be readily allowed, that a very high presumption in favour of the justness of the foregoing illustrations, arises out of the circumstance, that all the events, which we have indicated, as forming the fulfilment of the latter part of Daniel's last vision, run on, in succession to each other, in the known continuous order of history. In that order, the successive events agree with the successive terms of the prophecy most closely,-and so uniformly and consistently, that there is not one predictive clause in the prophecy, to which we have not found some important event, or circumstance, very accurately corresponding. The number of the agreements is great, even regarding the limited part of the prophecy which it has been our business to illustrate.* On that circumstance there

* The agreements, between the predictions, in the former part of this prophecy, and a regularly successive train of signal events and circumstances in history, are about as numerous as the like agreements, relating to this latter part of it; as may be perceived, on reckoning them up, as illustrated in Bishop Newton's xvi. Dissertation.

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