A Literal Translation of the Prophets, from Isaiah to Malachi (Volume 4); With Notes, Critical, Philological, and Explanatory (Paperback)

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.1836 Excerpt: ... tudes that sleep the dust of the ground shall awake, some to life everlasting, and others to reproaches, to the place; see also Phil. iv. 3, Rev. iii. 5, and xx. 15, where the book is called the Book of Life. Rejoice, says our Lord to his disciples, Luke x. 20, that your names are written in heaven, that ye are enlisted under the banners of the Gospel, called the kingdom of heaven, and are thereby entitled to its present graces, and if you persevere with faith and constancy will be rewarded with its future glories. 2. Then multitudes that sleep the dust of the ground shall awake--This is a just and exact translation of the Hebrew; and if there were any doubts before, whether some of the verses immediately preceding should be extended beyond the times of Antiochus, I think this and the next verse must entirely remove them. Even Grotius, after Porphyry, allows a mystical sense to these words, so that they may be understood to point at a resurrection of the just and unjust; a doctrine firmly received by Christians, though in his opinion not to be revealed before the times of the Gospel. The Prophecy as we have seen was brought down to the restoration of Israel, and immediately thereupon proceeds to the general restoration or resurrection - of all men, and the final judgment. The Jews themselves believed this doctrine, and had hopes therein founded on the promises of God to their fathers, Acts xxvi. 6, and there is no passage in the Old Testament that more strongly declares this truth than that before us, and which without great force can be applied to nothing else. Nothing, says Calmet, is more express than these words to prove the resurrection of the dead, &c. This is the simple, literal, and natural sense of the place, and it can only be understood ...