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of them is the true one, and then curtly dismisses prophecy to 
the limbo of exploded figments of the imagination ! This is 
just as if a barrister, in conducting a case against a vast 
quantity of hostile testimony, were to assert that the character 
of three out of the one hundred and fifty witnesses on the other 
side had been called in question, to assume that the whole 
of the one hundred and forty-seven others were unworthy of 
credit, and then triumphantly call upon the jury to find a 
verdict for his client. Surely whatever “ Aberglaube ” there 
may be in the Christian Church of the day, it is not to be 
dispelled by such a method as this ! Surely, moreover, the 
belief in prophecy, which has commanded the assent of some 
of the greatest minds that the world has ever known, can 
hardly be disposed of by how great a master soever of argu- 
ment within the compass of nine octavo pages ! 
14. I may, however, be permitted to pursue one portion of his 
brief prophetical argument a little more into detail. Jesus, says 
Mr. Arnold, was not the sort of Messiah the Jews expected, 
and, he implies, not the sort of Messiah prophecy had entitled 
them to expect (pp. 79, 80). To “ fuse together” the most an- 
tagonistic prophecies into an application to one person is, in his 
opinion, a “violent exegetical proceeding” (p. 92). Yet he 
mentions, in another part of his work, that the Jewish prophets, 
in their anticipations of the future, proceeded on three lines of 
thought (p.21 7). The first spoke of a Lion of the tribe of Judah, 
who should restore the kingdom to the seed of David, and go forth 
to conquer the earth. The second spoke of a light to lighten 
the Gentiles, who should set judgment in the earth, and for 
whose law far lands should wait. The third spoke of one who 
was oppressed and afflicted, whom it pleased God to bruise, 
whose soul was made an offering for sin, who was wounded 
for our transgressions, who was bruised for our iniquities, by 
whose stripes we are healed. Well may Mr. Arnold say, at 
the close of each description, “ Who is this ? ” He does not 
answer his question, he cannot answer it. There was One and 
One alone who answers to either description, and it is Jesus of 
Nazareth. “The Jews did not identify the three” — probably 
not. But they are identified in Christ. He, the Son of 
David, lias triumphed and does reign in the earth. The 
Gentiles have “ come to His light, and Kings to the bright- 
ness of His rising.” And the whole Christian Church for 
eighteen centuries lias seen in Him the Mail of Sorrows aud 
acquainted with grief, Whose sufferings and death have been 
the great Atoning Sacrifice for the sins of the whole world. 
Mr. Arnold does not dispute that these passages were written 
