The history of Israel Volume 6

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1883 Excerpt: ...be laid by him, a great division with reference to his own work on earth and his whole history, must take place in the substance of those prophecies as well as in the further development of the kingdom of God. It was in fact generally a great advantage that the Messianic prophecies of the Old Testament were so extraordinarily multiform and indeed various, and like a whole world in miniature: as therefore this their great richness, unfixedness, and spirituality had been from the commencement in his favour, for instance, not compelling him to appear from heaven as a winged celestial being, but as a genuine man like others, so now the same characteristics constantly lent him great assistance in the course of his labours. Accordingly he worked daily for the fulfilment of that part of those extensive and elevated prophecies which could immediately be realised, being content to do this in the right way: but that part of them which could not be at once or even during his earthly life fulfilled, he left calmly, without arbitrarily fixing its limits, to Divine care to continue, concerned himself only always at the right moment to carry properly to completion in the one great cause whatever the time just then required. For if even the smallest thing done in accordance with the Divine will is taken up by the Divine unresting activity, how much more must his life-work be taken up, which was the true commencement of all Divine-human cooperation in the kingdom of the Consummation itself. And thus he could know and daily learn more plainly that a great all-comprehensive division of this kind was being effected; and he could leave to the Father that part of the mysteries of the future which it behoved him thus to leave, when in every moment of the present he followed, in t...