On Jan 14, 5:27 pm, Dave Bismo <bi...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Jesus Christ.
>
> 706. The prophecies are the strongest proof of Jesus Christ. It is for
them
> also that God has made most provision; for the event which has fulfilled
> them is a miracle existing since the birth of the Church to the end. So
God
> has raised up prophets during sixteen hundred years, and, during four
> hundred years afterwards, He has scattered all these prophecies among
all
> the Jews, who carried them into all parts of the world. Such was the
> preparation for the birth of Jesus Christ, and, as His Gospel was to be
> believed by all the world, it was not only necessary that there should
be
> prophecies to make it believed, but that these prophecies should exist
> throughout the whole world, in order to make it embraced by the whole
world.
>
> 707. But it was not enough that the prophecies should exist. It was
> necessary that they should be distributed throughout all places and
> preserved throughout all times. And, in order that this agreement might
not
> be taken for an effect of chance, it was necessary that this should be
> foretold.
>
> It is far more glorious for the Messiah that the Jews should be the
> specators and even the instruments of His glory, besides that God had
> reserved them.
>
> 708. Prophecies.--The time foretold by the state of the Jewish people,
by
> the state of the heathen, by the state of the temple, by the number of
> years.
>
> 709. One must be bold to predict the same thing in so many ways. It was
> necessary that the four idolatrous or pagan monarchies, the end of the
> kingdom of Judah, and the seventy weeks, should happen at the same time,
and
> all this before the second temple was destroyed.
>
> 710. Prophecies.--If one man alone had made a book of predictions about
> Jesus Christ, as to the time and the manner, and Jesus Christ had come
in
> conformity to these prophecies, this fact would have infinite weight.
>
> But there is much more here. Here is a succession of men during four
> thousand years, who, consequently and without variation, come, one after
> an
Wrong newsgroup. What was that for? Whatever, don't do it again.
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