Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1849 Excerpt: ... with consolatory assurances of future restoration and prosperity to the Israelites and to the Jews, to whom should arise deliverance from Zion: Saviours who should judge the nations; and a spiritual kingdom, appropriated and consecrated to the Lord. These prophecies began to be completed about five years after, when Nebuchadnezzar ravaged Idumrea, and dispossessed the Edomites of much of Arabia Petrsea, which they never afterwards recovered. But they were still farther fulfilled in the conquests of the Maccabees over the remainder of the Edomites (1 Mace, v. 3. 65.); and they received their final accomplishment in the advent of that Redeemer, whom preceding Saviours had foreshewn. Gray on the Old Testament, 479--484. Nativity of the Bl. V. Mary:--It is said that, "About the year 695, this day was ordered to be celebrated, by Pope Sergius, on this occasion. A certain man, whose name we know not, heard a concert of angels in the air, solemnizing the nativity of the Blessed Virgin, as being born that night, which was the 8th of September. (Durand. Rat. lib. vii. Isidorus de Off.) Pope Innocent IV. honoured this feast with an octave, A.d. 1244, and Gregory XI. with a vigil, about the year 1370. Nicholls on the Common Prayer. Jonah:--Although Jonah is placed fifth in the order of the minor prophets, he is generally considered as the most ancient of all the prophets, whose writings we possess. He prophesied in the reigns of Joash, and his son Jeroboam the Second, kings of Israel, about eighty years before the time of Isaiah. The subject of the book of Jonah is the mission of that prophet to the populous city of Nineveh, the capital of the Assyrian empire, and his successful ministry among its people. The design of this prophetic record is to show, by the st...
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