270 LECTURES AND ESSAYS [1870- 



such an account as shall put them exactly on the same 

 footing. The name of David for Christ is a proper name 

 with a figurative origin ; Christ is called David just as 

 Simon is called Peter. The name, therefore, is based 

 on a resemblance to David. On the other hand the use 

 of the name Israel for the chosen people is not based on 

 a mere resemblance. It is an extension of the name of 

 the chosen people in one age to cover the elect in all ages. 

 So when Jerusalem is taken &quot; for the body politic of the 

 chosen people in which the power lies, and from which 

 the action proceeds,&quot; we have, on Mr. Newman s views, not 

 a mere analogy, but a certain substantial identity between 

 the new and old Jerusalem, in a sense not stated as appli 

 cable to the relation of David to Christ. To produce 

 uniformity here, and to give any support to the argument 

 that Israel means the chosen people because the Christian 

 Church is the continuation of the Jewish, we must formu 

 late in the same way the relation of Christ to David, and 

 say that Christ s kingdom is the continuation of David s. 

 And I presume that Mr. Newman, though he does not 

 adopt, would not disapprove of this way of putting the 

 matter by which alone his view becomes consistent. 

 And so the figurative element comes to be just this, that 

 the names of the temporary sovereign of the theocracy, 

 of the temporary seat of the government of the Church, 

 and of the temporary possessors of the privileges accorded 

 to God s chosen people, are used in a universal and non- 

 temporary sense. 



(2) Now certainly if this were the whole extent of the 

 difference between the Old Testament prophecy and the 

 New Testament fulfilment, we might be justified in 

 regarding the fulfilment as literal. If it could be shown 

 that under other names merely the Christian Church 

 is as Mr. Newman says a great empire comprising 

 all that a great empire ordinarily exhibits extended 

 dominion not only over its immediate subjects, but over 

 the kings of other kingdoms aggression and advance 



