the continuance of the lawgiver in Judah till the advent of Shiloh.

After the long-predicted bondage of Egypt, prophecy rekindled its torch, pointed out the prophet like unto Moses, and then sketched the most remote events of the Jewish story; whilst Job and the unwilling testimony of Balaam came in about the same time, to testify of the future Redeemer, and of the star that was to arise out of Jacob.

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After a cessation of prophecy for about four hundred years from the time of Moses, Samuel arose, amidst the decay of religion and the extreme corruption of the priesthood, the first of a new series of divine The age prophecy, emphatically so termed, now began. David came first and tuned his harp. The remarkable prophets Elijah and Elisha followed, and reached from the days of Solomon to those of Jonah; when Hosea, Amos, and Micah succeeded, and led on the choir of the greater prophets, Isaiah, Jeremiah, and Ezekiel.

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The latter of these accompanied the Jewish people to Babylon, where Daniel arose and spake of the seventy weeks reaching unto Messiah the Prince. Haggai and Zechariah aroused

B. C. 1451-1056.

4 B. C. 606.

3 B. C. 975-862.

the languid nation on their return, and Malachi announced the herald of the Saviour.

As a pause of four hundred years intervened. after the death of Moses, so did a like pause hush every whisper of prophecy till Christ our Lord arose-preceded, according to the prophetic declarations, by his precursor; and predicted the destruction of the Jewish city, and the dissolution of their polity. His blessed feet St. Paul followed first, and then St. John," taking up the strain of Daniel, expanding the visions which he had recorded, and pronouncing the predictions which have been fulfilling ever since in the events of the world.

Thus extensive in point of time, prophecy was not less so in respect of the dispensations which it subserved, the objects which it embraced, the modes of its being communicated, and the periods of its fulfilment. The nations bordering on Judea, the greatest heathen states, the succession of empires as connected with the church, the punishment of guilty individuals and of kingdoms, events near and remote, were the objects of prophetic vision. The writers of the prophecies were of every different class; some kings or princes, others patriarchs and heads of tribes, others prophets or priests, others legislators, others shepherds or fisher

5 B. C. 396.

6 A. D. 96.

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the continuance of the lawgiver in Judah till the advent of Shiloh.

After the long-predicted bondage of Egypt, prophecy rekindled its torch, pointed out the prophet like unto Moses, and then sketched the most remote events of the Jewish story; whilst Job and the unwilling testimony of Balaam came in about the same time, to testify of the future Redeemer, and of the star that was to arise out of Jacob.

After a cessation of prophecy for about four hundred years from the time of Moses, Samuel arose, amidst the decay of religion and the extreme corruption of the priesthood, the first of a new series of divine messengers. The age of prophecy, emphatically so termed, now began. David came first and tuned his harp. The remarkable prophets Elijah and Elisha followed, and reached from the days of Solomon to those of Jonah; when Hosea, Amos, and Micah succeeded, and led on the choir of the greater prophets, Isaiah, Jeremiah, and Ezekiel.

The latter of these accompanied the Jewish people to Babylon, where Daniel arose and spake of the seventy weeks reaching unto Messiah the Prince. Haggai and Zechariah aroused

B. C. 1451-1056.

B. C. 606.

3 B. C. 975-862.