Dissertations on the prophecies which have remarkably been fulfilled, and at this time are fulfilling in the world / Revised by the Rev. W.S. Dobson.

  • Thomas Newton
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    was according to 7 Josephus illustrious for her family and riches. Moses saith, “ she shall eat them for want of all things :” and according to Josephus she had been plundered of all her sub- stance and provisions by the tyrants and soldiers. Moses saith, that she should do it “@ secretly : ” and according to Josephus, when she had boiled and eaten half, she covered up the rest, and kept it for another time. At so many different times and distant periods hath this prophecy been fulfilled; and one would have thought that such distress and horror had almost transcended imagination, and much less that any person could certainly have foreseen and foretold it. 6. Great numbers of them were to be destroyed, ver. 62. “And ye shall be left few in number, whereas ye were as the stars of ‘heavert for multitude.” Now not to mention any other of the calamities and slaughters which they have undergone, there was in the last siege of Jerusalem by Titus an infinite multitude, saith * Josephus, who perished by famine: and he computes, that during the whole siege, the number of those who were destroyed by that and by the war amounted to 1,100,000, the people being assembled from all parts to celebrate the passover: and the same author hath given us an account of 1,240,490 destroyed in Jerusalem and other parts of Judea, besides 99,200 made prisoners ; as 9 Basnage has reckoned them up from that historian’s account. Indeed there is not a nation upon earth, that hath been exposed to so many massacres and persecutions. Their history abounds with them. If God had not given them a promise of a numerous posterity, the whole race would many a time have been extirpated. 7. They were to be carried into Egypt, and sold for slaves at a very low price, ver. 68, ‘‘ And the Lord shall bring thee into Egypt again, with ships: and there ye shall be sold unto your enemies for bondmen and bondwomen, and no man shall buy you.” They had come out of Egypt triumphant, but now they should return thither as slaves. They had walked through the sea as dry land at their coming out, but now they should be carried thither in ships. They might be carried thither in the ships of the Tyrian or Sidonian merchants, or by the Ro- mans who had a fleet in the Mediterranean: and this was a 7 Ate yévog nal mAotrov Emionos, genere atque opibus illustris———avrng thy joey aAAny uriow of Tueavor Sinewaray x. 7. Ar. hujus alius quidem facultates jam tyrannt diripuerant, &c.——ireir’ omrticace 0 peev Huson xatecOier, TO 88 AotTov KaTana- Aviaca Epurxarrev. coctum deinde ipsa qui- dem dimidium ejus comedit, adopertum vero reliquum servabat, Bell. Jud. 1. 6. ¢. 5. § 4. 8 Tav 9 bord tov Areeod pPbEiponevav nara Thy mod aorecpoy pety Emsmre FO MWAROOG. Eorum autem, qui per civitatem fame peri- erunt infinita quidem cecidit multitudo. Bell. Jud. 1iGcetSoar3. Tév 3 dmrodovupivoy vara wacay Thy Toe opxiay [derOredc] prv)erddes Exariy xat déxa totius autem obsidionis tempore undecies cen ae hominum millia perierunt. Ibid. c. 9 3. 9 Hist. of the Jews, b. 1.c. 8. § 19, See too the conclusion of Usher’s An- nals.
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