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. 1915 Excerpt: ...should be required of the Gentile converts of Antioch, James arose and addressed the assembly. He referred to a speech of Peter's;--" Simeon, ' said he, 'hath declared how God, at the first, did visit the Gentiles, to take out of them a people for his name, and to this agree the words of the prophets." He uses the ...
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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. 1915 Excerpt: ...should be required of the Gentile converts of Antioch, James arose and addressed the assembly. He referred to a speech of Peter's;--" Simeon, ' said he, 'hath declared how God, at the first, did visit the Gentiles, to take out of them a people for his name, and to this agree the words of the prophets." He uses the plural, as though several of the prophets had spoken in like manner; yet quotes only one, as a specimen of the whole. "After this I will return and will build again, or rebuild the tabernacle or house of David, which is fallen down; and I will build again the ruins thereof, and I will set it up; that the residue of men, others than the Jews, might seek after the Lord, and all the Gentiles upon whom my name is called, saith the Lord, who doeth all these things." Acts 15:16-17. James not only understood Amos' words as fulfilled under the present dispensation, but also that the conversion of the Gentiles was the rebuilding of David's house, which began with Christ and his disciples. Both converted Jews and Gentiles were the material of which this house was composed. Its grandeur will culminate when all peoples are gathered into it. Both Amos and James, then--the former under the old, the latter under the new, dispensation--meant by the tabernacle, or house of David, the church of Christ. But the Premillenarians say that it never means that. There is evidently a mistake somewhere. It is equally clear, also, from the spirituality of the present dispensation, that these prophecies will not admit of a literal interpretation. There has been a progress during the history of redemption, from that which was gross and sensuous, to that which is more spiritual. We see this when we compare the different epochs of miracles. Those, in the time of Mo...
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