David Baron

“ Surely the fact that the Jerusalem whose greatly extended future site is here measured is to overflow not only with men, but with " cattle," who are to dwell therein, ought to be sufficient proof that it is an earthly and not a heavenly city that is spoken about. ”

“ In the end, after He had for three and a half years with outstretched arms continued to call Israel to Himself, but without response that which was symbolised by the departure of the Glory from the Mount of Olives, depicted by Ezekiel, received a second personal and more striking fulfilment, when Jesus also, slowly and reluctantly, after shedding tears of sorrow for Jerusalem, and from the same spot whence the prophet saw the Glory depart, finally ("after His atoning death and glorious resurrection) ascended out of sight. ”

“ Thus Pusey (whose otherwise devout and scholarly work on the Minor Prophets is vitiated by the so-called spiritualising method which seeks persistently to explain away even the plainest prophecies about Jerusalem, and applies every promise to " the Church/ while it carefully leaves the curses to the Jews) , after explaining the words, " Jerusalem shall be inhabited as towns without walls," exclaims: " Clearly, then, it is no earthly city. To be inhabited as villages would be weak ness, not strength; a peril, not a blessing. ”

“ Then also Jehovah, in the Person of their Messiah Jesus, shall, from Jerusalem as the centre, "judge among the nations, and rebuke many peoples: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more "; and it will be quite safe for even the earthly Jerusalem, with " the King,"
"the Lord of hosts," in its midst, to be inhabited as villages in an open plain, without visible walls or forti fications. ”

“ Son of Man " in the clouds of heaven, in great power and glory, to build again the tabernacle of David, and to establish His kingdom have formulated the belief in two Messiahs: a Messiah ben Joseph, who should suffer and die; and a Messiah ben David, who should come to conquer and reign. ”

“ Then, when "all Israel shall be saved"; when the miracle of a whole nation being born in a day shall first be witnessed on the earth in the case of the Jews; when the full significance of the precious Name " Immanuel " shall be realised in Jesus "dwelling in the midst" of His own people, so that the name of Jerusalem from that day shall be "Jehovah Shammah " (Ezek. xlviii. 35) ”

“ Thus Isaiah, at the close of the Book of Immanuel, [9] after describing the Glorious Person, and blessed reign of Him whose Name is " Wonderful," calls out, " Cry aloud and shout, thou inJiabitress of Zion, for great is the Holy One of Israel in the midst of thee" (Isa. xii. 6) ; which again is repeated by Zephaniah, who exclaims: Sing, O daughter of Zion; shout, O Israel; be glad and rejoice with all the heart, O daughter of Jerusalem / . . . the King, even Jehovah, is in the midst of thee; thou shalt not fear evil any more" (Zeph. iii. 14, 15) . ”

“ It should dwell as villages, peacefully and gently expanding itself to the right and to the left, through its own inherent power of multiplying itself, as a city to which no bounds were assigned, but which was to fill the earth. ”

“ But has the purpose of God been frustrated by Israel's unbelief, and will the exceeding great and precious promises in reference to the establishment of the Messianic Kingdom on this earth, with Jerusalem as its centre, fail for evermore because (as the writer quoted above asserts) the Jewish people has not " kept the covenant committed to them "? ”

“ And another, [3] who, in an able and elaborate work, which, however, is chiefly a summary of the explanations and speculations of German commentators who, with very rare exceptions, have no place at all in their theological and exegetical schemes for any future for Israel admitting that it is of the earthly Jerusalem that the words were spoken tells us coolly that:
"There is no need to suppose that the prophecy refers to a still future period, as Von Hoffmann imagines. The prophecy was fulfilled by the restoration of the city of Jerusalem under the protection of God even in troublous days. ”

“ And when they shall no more say, Jehovah liveth which brought up the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt, but Jehovah liveth which brought up and which led the seed of the House of Israel from the north country, and from all countries whither I had driven them; and they shall dwell in their own land. ”

“ Some interpreters have confused him with the inter preting angel, though in the text itself this angel is clearly distinguished from " the man," since he does not " go out " till the latter had already gone to measure Jerusalem. Others, again, have regarded this " man " as " a mere figure in the vision "; while still others have confused him with the " young man " in ver. 4. Thus Dr. Wright says, rather dogmatically, " The man with the measuring line is not to be regarded as an angel ”

“ But not only the ungodly and the sinners who have spoken " hard things " against God and His Anointed, but men in general, are called in a spirit of reverence and godly fear to await the solemn event announced; for the coming and visible interposition of God on this earth, while it will mean judgment to some, will mean the consummation of grace and fulness of blessedness to others ”

“ During the present Dispensation, through Israel's tempor ary " fall," salvation has come to the Gentiles, and the " dimin ishing of them" has been overruled of God to " the riches of the Gentiles." But this " salvation " and " riches " extend only to individuals. God hath visited the " Gentiles " to " take out of them a people for His Name." It is only ignorance of God's plan, and self-delusion, which can boast of the gradual conversion of the world and of " Christian nations " in this present age. ”

“ Hi. 1 1 of the same prophet: " Depart ye, depart ye, go ye out from thence, touch no unclean thing; go ye out of the midst of her; be ye clean, that bear the vessels of Jehovah" It is almost an exact reiteration also of the solemn words of Jeremiah: " Flee out of the midst of Babylon, and save every man his life: be not cut off in her iniquity. . . . My people, go ye out of the midst of her, and save yourselves every man from the fierce anger of Jehovah"
(Jer. H. 6, 45) .
This also had a primary, though only a partial, reference to the time in which the prophet wrote his visions. ”

“ If the great learning, industry, and spiritual zeal which for centuries has been employed in rearing that great monu ment of wasted human industry, the immense literature of the Talmud, were used rather in the living work of propagating the gospel of Christ! ”

“ The promises," he proceeds, " would have been fully accomplished if the people had kept the covenant committed to them, and they were accomplished in a great measure, notwithstanding their many sins." ”

“ His hand, and the enemies of God and of His people, however formidable they may seem, become as women (Isa. xix. 16) . ↑ Consisting of Isa. vii. to xii. ↑ The Jewish Question and the Key to its Solution, by Dr. Max Green, ↑ See the chapter, " The Silence of God: how it shall be Broken," in The Ancient Scriptures and the Modern Jew. ↑ See the Hebrew of Ps. ”