The Old and New Testament Connected in the History of the Jews and Neighbouring - Livres de poche

Excerpt from The Old and New Testament Connected in the History of the Jews and Neighbouring Nations, Vol. 2 of 2: From the Declension of the Kingdoms of Israel and Judah to the Time of Christ The second part of this History, which I now offer to the public, completes the whole of what I intend. My first purpose was to have concluded it at the birth of our Saviour, and to have left what thenceforth ensues to the ecclesiastical historian of the Christian Church, to whom it properly belongs. But since what is to connect the Old Testament with the New will there best end, where the dispensation of the Old Testament endeth, and that of the New begins; and since that was brought to pass in the death and resurrection of our Saviour, I have drawn down this history thereto. For then the Jewish Church was abolished, and the Christian erected in its stead; then the Law of Moses ceased, and that of Christ and his Gospel commenced, and therein the accomplishment of all the prophecies of the Old Testament relating to the person of the Messiah, which begun at his birth, was fully perfected; and therefore here 1 have thought it properest to fix the conclusion of this work. But to avoid encroaching too far upon the Christian ecclesiastical historian, I have from the time of Christ's birth treated but in a very brief manner of what afterwards ensued to his death; and have passed over the whole time of the public ministration both of him and his forerunner. For all things that were done therein being fully related in the four Gospels, which are, or ought to be, in every one's hands, barely to repeat them here would be needless; and all that can be done beyond a bare repetition is either to methodize them according to the order of time, or to explain them by way of interpretation; but the former belonging to the harmonist, and the latter to the commentator, they are both out of the province I have undertaken. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare