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that there will be no restoration of the Jews to their own 

 land ; but as it is evident, from what St. Paul says, that 

 they will at a period fixed in the Divine councils be 

 converted to the faith of Christ, 1 so it appears equally 

 clear, from what is foretold in the concluding chapters of 

 Ezekiel and by other prophets, 2 that they shall also again 

 inhabit Judea and Jerusalem. Some interpreters are also 

 of opinion, that the pouring out of the vial of the sixth 

 angel upon the river Euphrates and the drying up of its 

 waters, 3 signify the dissolution of the empire of the Turks ; 

 that, by the Kings of the East therein mentioned, are 

 meant the Jews ; and that their return to their own land 

 is indicated, by their way being prepared. Bishop Horsley 

 supposes, likewise, that the eighteenth of Isaiah foretells 

 this event, and that the great commercial nation of the day 

 will be instrumental in bringing it about. 4 



St. Paul's conversion is thought to have been a type of 

 the conversion of the Jewish nation in the latter days, and 

 as his zeal and success seem to have exceeded that of the 

 other apostles, and he was the great instrument of the 

 conversion of the gentile world to the faith of Christ, so it 

 has been supposed that the Jews when converted, will be 

 the main instruments of the conversion of the then heathen 

 world. 



NOTE 19, p. 88. Unless some means can be devised at 

 home, by which the pressure may be lightened, and the 

 suffering classes be enabled to procure the necessaries of life. 

 There are two mighty nations on our globe in which a 

 system has long been acted upon, enabling them to support 



1 Rom. xi. 25, 26. 



2 Ezek. xxxvii. &c. Isai. Ix. Jerem. xxx. &c. 



3 Rev. xvi. 12. comp. ix. 14. 



4 See also Ix. 8, 9, and Zeph. iii. 10. 



