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the rod of mine anger, and the staff in their hand is my
indignation. I will send him against an hypocritical
nation, and against the people of my wrath will I give
him a charge, to ' take the spoil, and to take the prey,
and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.
Howbeit he meaneth not so, neither #doth his heart think
so ; but it is in bis heart to destroy and cut off nations
not a few." Ch. xxix. I—3 : 11 Woe to Ariel, to Ariel,
the city where David dwelt ! and ye year to year ; let
them kill sacrifices ; yet I will distress Ariel, and there
shall be heaviness and sorrow : and it shall be unto me as
Ariel. I will camp against thee round about, and will lay
siege against thee with a mount, and I will raise forts
against thee." Micah iv. 13: "Arise and thresh, O
daughter of Zion, for I will make," &c. Ch. v. 1 : " 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, Beth-lehem
Ephratah, though, thou be little among the thousands of
Judah, yet out of the shall he come forth unto me, that
is to be ruler in Isreal," &c. Now, I presume, the Editor
will not propose to inentify those prophets with the
Deity; yet he must admit that his argument, if it has
any weight at all, must force us to submit to that mons-
trous conclusion.
In the course of this argument the Reverend Editor
asserts, that " Christ also, in John viii., declares himself
to be precisely what Jehovah declares himself in Exodus
iii. 14 : ' Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel,
/ am hath sent me unto you.' John viii. 24 : 'If ye
believe not that I amffte being supplied') ye shall die in
Aour sins ;' and ver. 58, ' Verily, verily, I say unto you,
indignation. I will send him against an hypocritical
nation, and against the people of my wrath will I give
him a charge, to ' take the spoil, and to take the prey,
and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.
Howbeit he meaneth not so, neither #doth his heart think
so ; but it is in bis heart to destroy and cut off nations
not a few." Ch. xxix. I—3 : 11 Woe to Ariel, to Ariel,
the city where David dwelt ! and ye year to year ; let
them kill sacrifices ; yet I will distress Ariel, and there
shall be heaviness and sorrow : and it shall be unto me as
Ariel. I will camp against thee round about, and will lay
siege against thee with a mount, and I will raise forts
against thee." Micah iv. 13: "Arise and thresh, O
daughter of Zion, for I will make," &c. Ch. v. 1 : " 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, Beth-lehem
Ephratah, though, thou be little among the thousands of
Judah, yet out of the shall he come forth unto me, that
is to be ruler in Isreal," &c. Now, I presume, the Editor
will not propose to inentify those prophets with the
Deity; yet he must admit that his argument, if it has
any weight at all, must force us to submit to that mons-
trous conclusion.
In the course of this argument the Reverend Editor
asserts, that " Christ also, in John viii., declares himself
to be precisely what Jehovah declares himself in Exodus
iii. 14 : ' Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel,
/ am hath sent me unto you.' John viii. 24 : 'If ye
believe not that I amffte being supplied') ye shall die in
Aour sins ;' and ver. 58, ' Verily, verily, I say unto you,