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Excerpt from The Life of Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ: Together With the Lives of His Holy Apostles and Evangelists Now this longing of the Hebrew race for a Messiah, we are well assured, was not a cause, but an effect, of the Divine oracles and communications vouchsafed to them. They stood apart from the kingdoms round about them, in the peculiar relation which they sustained to the Almighty. They were being trained, though they knew it not, to be a centre of blessing to all the tribes of earth. Salva tion was of them, in a sense to which the residue of the nations could advance no claim. And, in consonance with this, we find a glow of promise lighting up their history - feeble and tremulous at first, but gathering in brightness and glory to the fulness of the time. This is the record of our Lord in the Old Testament, as the Gospels are his legacy in the New. It will be our object to examine the train of prediction by which he was made known to the fathers of mankind. And beginning as he himself did with Moses, we shall follow on, remarking the increasing clearness which comes forth in the prophets, as they testify beforehand the sufferings of Christ, and the glory that should follow. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.