Author: Charles Augustus Briggs

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Published: 2015-07-19

Total Pages: 554

ISBN-13: 9781331820802

Excerpt from Messianic Prophecy: The Prediction of the Fulfillment of Redemption Through the Messiah Messianic Prophecy is the most important of all themes; for it is the ideal of redemption given by the Creator to our race at the beginning of its history, and it ever abides as the goal of humanity until the divine plan has been accomplished. There is no lack of works upon this subject. They are strewn along the Christian centuries in great abundance. And yet there are very few of them that have more than a transient value; for they either use Messianic Prophecy as a sword with which to smite the Jew or the infidel; or else as a crutch for a feeble faith in Christ and Christianity. There are very few of them that show any real interest in the theme for itself; there are still fewer that are animate with love and devotion to this greatest of all subjects. Messianic Prophecy has been too much dominated by the apologetical and the polemical interests, and the historical and the dogmatic bearings of the theme have been too much neglected. This has given occasion to another common fault in the treatment of the subject. It has not been grasped as a whole and treated by a comprehensive method. Messianic Prophecy does not come to an end with the canon of the Scriptures of the Old Testament, as is commonly supposed. 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.