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. 1902 Excerpt: ...as well as to the cities of Judea and the future of the Jews, prophecies not equivocal and uncertain and mysterious, like a Delphic oracle, but clear and positive in utterance and minute in detail, and which were fulfilled with astonishing accuracy in all particulars. To read them now after the events foretold seems like the reading of veritable history. Reference has already been made to the fact that Christ was the subject of much prophecy. There are not less than three hundred distinct predictions, scattered from Genesis to Malachi, giving the particulars of the time, place and circumstances of his nativity, of his life, sufferings, death and resurrection, of his personal character and the purpose of his mission on earth, as well as the nature and extent of his dominion. All this is told with a fulness and definiteness which leave no room for doubt that the brilliant prophetic rays were focused on him. Christ himself and his apostles constantly acknowledged the meaning of the ancient prophecies, and recognized their actual, living fulfilment in him. The New Testament narrative is frequently punctuated by the refrain: "That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet." Moreover, Christ was the author as well as the subject of many prophecies. By prophecy, as well as by miracle, he established his divine character and mission. He predicted his own betrayal and death and resurrection, the coming of false Christs, the persecution of his disciples, the overthrow of Jerusalem when as yet there was no sign of the coming storm, explaining in graphic outline the method of its siege, the unparalleled tribulation of the inhabitants, and the complete destruction of the city and temple, so that one stone should not be left upon another, and also t...