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and more clearly to look forward to a yet future salvation 

 in which all these imperfections should be supplied. 



With this outline of Baur s position we may appropri 

 ately close, for it shows more clearly than any comment 

 of ours could do the attitude in which, on the whole, not 

 one writer only, but the great mass of believing critics, 

 stand toward the question of Old Testament prophecy. 

 And may we not say that such an attitude, if still far from 

 thoroughly consistent and complete, at least holds forth 

 the hope of no mean advance in the study of a part of 

 human history which, in deep and enduring interest, is 

 second only to the history of the earthly life of Him to 

 whom all prophecy points. 



