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For the accomplishment of this his prediction, the prophet by those words of his—for those and those alone were all the words that bear upon this point, had taken time enough: for as long as the world lasted it could not be disfulfilled. From some consideration however, which the Biographer has not handed down to us, this was the very point of time MS alt. ‘or [...?] [...?] time’. at which the prophecy in question was expected to be, at the same time, fulfilled and disfulfilled, was at once they feared to receive its accomplishment and by it was hoped its refutation. The prophet and his prophecy was supposed by them to be a true one, or it could not have afforded a ground for the answer which they gave, and for the measures which were taken in consequence: at that same time it was moreover supposed by them to be false, or the measures could not be productive of the effect they aimed at of the security the production of which was the sole object which they had in view.
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    3. Speaking out on the part of any one: after, or before the event spoken of

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    1. Ambiguous meaning of the word prophecy—To prophecy means as well to speak in public to discourse for the public ear, or more simply to speak out—and after the event has happened—as to predict. Many of the discourses cited as prophecies are not so much as predictions. Prophet, a writer at large.

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    1. A prophecy which can never be disfulfilled: ex.gr. one for the fulfilment of which no man is particularized. ex.gr. deliverance from natural oppression

    2. A prophecy predicting in general terms, and without particularization an event belonging to any of those sorts of events which in the course of nature are continually happening—such as vicissitudes of the weather—war and peace—good and ill fortune in all shapes

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    Ch.5. [...?] II. Prophecies

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    II. Prophecies and Miracles—under one or other of these two heads have been ranked whatsoever supposed manifestations in the character of extraordinary or supernatural proofs of the verity of the religion of Jesus.

    The character in which they have thus been brought to view is that of two species or classes of proofs distinct from one another.

    Upon a closer examination, this distinctness will however be seen to vanish: a prophecy being no more than a particular species of miracle.

    A prophecy is a sort of miracle of which the completion does not take place, till the fulfilment of the prophecy till the point of time is come at which the prophecy has been fulfilled: till that time the miracle is a sort of miracle as it were in abeyance. A prophecy in a word is a miraculous prediction, this is the short definition of a prophecy.

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    1

    Ch. Time of Penning

    *2

    §.2 Generation not past

    §.2 In the instance of Luke, Matthew and Mark, reasons for thinking that the generation living at Jesus' death had not yet passed away.

    The four historians in question what was the interval of time with relation to the facts respectively reported by them were they respectively penned?

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    Luke xxi. 28 to 36

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    relation to three out of the four of them, viz. | | that at the time when one particular passage in each was penned, individuals were still living who were living at the close of the Jesus's career, is by the terms of that passage rendered altogether probable. This is where after a multitude of predictions of the most extravagant nature about the fall of the stars from heaven, and his own coming with power and great glory, he is represented as adding [‘]This generations shall not pass (or slip away) till (all things or) all these things shall be fulfilled (or shall be done): concluding with a caution never to overeat or overdrink themselves, lest the day on which these things will come to pass should find them unprepared. That generation passed away, and after that generation after generation—and to this hour none of all these have been fulfilled. While MS alt. ‘so long’. the human beings that were in existence at the time when these words were supposed to have been spoken continued alive, literary works in which this tissue of predictions were reported might continue to be uttered written and published without exhibiting to the truth of the narrative they respectively contain that counterproof which is afforded by so palpable an instance of a disfulfilment applied in the case of so plain and determinate a story of prediction. On the other hand, suppose that generation already passed away and the prediction then known to be disfulfilled, that any one writing harbouring in his mind any such truth as that the nature of Jesus, being commissioned from above should be taken for true, should in a history composed by himself make[?] any mention of a prediction of his by which when compared with the event the character of falsity was so plainly stamped upon it, should give mention to such a discourse seems scarcely reconcilable in the ordinary principle of the human mind.

    1

    Time at what distance from the events work the four Evangelists. Answer—No sufficient ground for influence.

    2

    As to Luke, Matt. & Mark