Category: Religion/Spirituality

An Amicable Controversy with a Jewish Rabbi, on The Messiah's Coming With an Entirely New Exposition of Zechariah, on the Messiah's Kingdom

Preface. Introduction. Zechariah On The Messiah’s Kingdom. Interpretation: Chapter IX. Notes To Chapter IX. Hebrew Punctuation. The Rabbi’s Exposition And Reply, Chapter IX. Zechariah, Chapter IX. Remarks On The Rabbi’s Exposition. Zechariah On The Messiah’s Kingdom. Interpret...

Chapters

7. Part 7

From the failure of former commentators, in shewing how this can apply to the betrayal of Christ, when the word שכרי (or ירכש) is rendered, as it should be, _wages_ or _reward_,...

6. Part 6

Ezekiel did write much nearer to the time in question, and commentators appear undecided whether some of his predictions refer to the destruction of Old or New Tyre, or to both;...

2. Part 2

But the solution is only plausible; for the growth is not the birth; or if it be taken as the birth, then it no longer precedes but follows the labour-pains, for whatever effect...

8. Part 8

The next verse, which foretels _the pouring out of the Spirit_, so closely resembles the prophecy of Joel, of which St. Peter gave the interpretation on the memorable day of Pen...

1. Part 1

Preface. Introduction. Zechariah On The Messiah’s Kingdom. Interpretation: Chapter IX. Notes To Chapter IX. Hebrew Punctuation. The Rabbi’s Exposition And Reply, Chapter IX. Zec...

4. Part 4

To take these expressions in the literal sense, as promising to man the grossest of sensual indulgences, would surely be a strange misconstruction of prophetic language; המו (or...

9. Part 9

Parkhurst, in his Lexicon, remarks upon this passage, as being _strangely_ translated in our version; while Dr. Blayney agrees with him in the translation. _For a man bought me,...

5. Part 5

The circumstances that intimated the spiritual nature of that kingdom, and shewed that the prophecy refers to Christianity, were the following:—the denunciations against worldly...

3. Part 3

How then could Ephraim, or the ten tribes, it may be asked, bear a part in the triumphs of the Gospel, having previously gone into captivity? The prophecy does not distinctly sa...

10. Part 10

The solution is—that this division of the nominal Christian world here foretold, into two grand apostacies, Anti-christianism and Mahommedism, which were destined to occupy a po...