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. 1905 Excerpt: ...be born at once? for as soon as Zion travailed, she brought forth her children." While this characterization is thus shown to coincide so clearly with that of the figure before us, the following verses will, in the same sense, be seen to correlate with its final apocalyptic metamorphosis in the figure of the New ...
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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. 1905 Excerpt: ...be born at once? for as soon as Zion travailed, she brought forth her children." While this characterization is thus shown to coincide so clearly with that of the figure before us, the following verses will, in the same sense, be seen to correlate with its final apocalyptic metamorphosis in the figure of the New Jerusalem. The prophet Micah gives us a series of prophecies relating to the distant future of the "house of Israel" as under the Messianic regime. His employment of this maternal figure will repay careful study. The famous prophecy that was read to Herod, relative to the birth of Christ, presents a scope that clearly squares with this of the Basilophany. He says (5. i-3): "Now gather thyself in troops, O daughter of troops: he hath laid siege against us; they shall smite the judge of Israel with a rod upon the cheek. But thou, Bethlehem Ephratah, though thou be little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of thee shall he come forth unto me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings forth have been from of old, from everlasting. Therefore will he give them up, until the time that she which travaileth hath brought forth; then the remnant of his brethren shall return unto the children of Israel." With respect to the twelve stars which compose the crown of this figure, and which are popularly understood to stand for the twelve apostles, it must be conceded that the law of solidarity here interposes a weighty objection. The starry diadem of the Christian church has already been held before us in the Christophany, and not as' twelve stars, but seven. Twelve is the royalistic number, and relates primarily to the patriarchs, who appear mystically in drapery that suggests correlation with this symbolism, while the apostles do not....
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