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Title: The Bible hand-book: an introduction to the study of Sacred Scripture
Year: 1883 (1880s)
Authors: Angus, Joseph, 1816-1902 Hoyt, F. S. (Francis Southack), 1822-1912 Madden, Frederic W. (Frederic William)
Subjects: Bible
Publisher: Philadelphia, J. Fagan
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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e preserved, evenwhile heathen armies, and Alexander (ix. 6), pass through the land:and at length Messiah is to come and establish a peaceful kingdom,which shall finally extend over the earth (ver. 9: Matt. xxi. 4, 5):ix. 1-17. Idols are to be everywhere abandoned, Judah, and evenEphraim restored, (ver. 7); x. 1-12. A sad scene, however, is to intervene. The destruction of Jerusalem is again foretold, in termstaken probably from the history of her first overthrow, the propheticoffice is to be in the lowest repute (ver. 12), the wancls or crooks, sym-bolical of the shepherds office, are broken, and false hireling shepherdsare honored: all which has its fulfilment in the destruction of Jeru- a Probably the four chariots denote the four empires of Danielsvision; the red horses, the Babylonians; the black, the Persians, whooverthrew Babylon; the white, the Macedonians, who were peacefulto the Jews; andthe spotted bay, the Ronans. The general import uat least clear. b Or symbolical action.
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ESTHER. 575 salem by the Ronans, in the impious rejection of Christ by the Jews,the mean undervaluation of him by Judas, and the powerlessness andignorance of the Jewish rulers ; the arm dried up, and the right eyedarkened, (ver. 17): xi. 1-17. Nevertheless, Jerusalem shall be aburdensome stone to all nations. The Jews shall mourn over theiisins, and especially over the sin that destroyed them, the crucifixionof our Lord (John xix. 37), and all shall be forgiven, xii. 1-xiii. 1.The idols shall be cut off; false prophets shall cease; the propheticoffice itself shall bring persecution; the shepherd being smitten, thesheep shall be scattered, though a remnant of them shall survive theoverthrow of the Jewish state, xiii. 2-9. Jerusalem, however, will bedestroyed, and the people scattered. Christ shall ascend from Olivet,and thence shall Jewish Christians be forced out by persecution, andextend the church on all sides, the barriers which surrounded the Jewishpeople and state being removed.

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