BEING AN ATTEMPT TO ELUCIDATE, IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER,

THE PROPHECIES

BOTH OF THE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENTS,

WHICH RELATE

TO THE APPROACHING APPEARANCE OF THE REDEEMER, AND " THE

MANIFESTATION OF THE SONS OF GOD"-TO THE JUDGMENT
OF THE APOSTATE NATIONS OF THE CHRISTIAN FAITH

*THE RESTORATION OF ISRAEL-
AND THE ERECTION OF THE KINGDOM OF CHRIST UPON EARTH.

BY THE REV. JOHN FRY, B.A.

(Late of University College, Oxford,)
RECTOR OF DESFORD, IN LEICESTERSHIRE;
Author of a “ New Translation and Etposition of the Canticles ;'
Lectures on St. Paul's Epistle to the Romans ;” and of u

Translation and Exposition of the Psalms," fc.

;" " Expository
16 New

IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOL. I.

“ There is scarce a prophecy in the Old Testament concerning Christ, which doth not
in something or other relate to his second coming." —SIR ISAAC Newton.

" Whom the heavens must receive, until the times of the restitution of all things, which
God bath spoken by the mouth of all his holy prophets since the world began.”—Acts, iii. 21.

“ Nevertheless, when the Son of man cometh, shall he find faith on the earth."-Luke,
xviii. 8.

LONDON:

gilt
Tappan Presb. Assoc.

2-9-1933

CONTENTS

OF

THE FIRST VOLUME.

PART THE FIRST,

CONTAINING THE PROPHECIES OF THE SECOND ADVENT, IN THE FIRST

AGES OF THE WORLD, AND IN THE PSALMS OF DAVID.

PAGE

INTRODUCTION

1

CHAPTER THE FIRST.

THE ORACLES DELIVERED IN THE PATRIARCHAL AGE.

Sect. I. Respecting the Woman's Seed

II. The Prophecy of Enoch

III. Job's Faith in the Redeemer

CHAPTER THE SECOND.

The Promises made to Abraham..

15

28

CHAPTER THE THIRD.

PROPHECIES RELATING TO THE SECOND ADVENT IN THE AGE

OF MOSES.

Introduction

Sect. I. The Song of Moses on the miraculous Passage

of the Red Sea

II. Moses' Song of Remembrance, Deut. xxxii.....

III. His Introduction to the Blessing of the Twelve

Tribes

IV. The Prophecies of Balaam.

31

35

50

54

CHAPTER THE FOURTH.

PROPHECIES OF THE ERA OF DAVID

Introduction..

Sect. I. Hannah's Thanksgiving

II. Extracts from the Psalms

III. 2 Sam. viii. and 1 Chron. xvii., with the Last

Words of David....

64

65

72

111

PART THE SECOND.

PREDICTIONS OF THE SECOND ADVENT IN THE WRITINGS OF THE

PROPHETS.

PAGE

INTRODUCTION

115

CHAPTER THE FIRST.

THE FIRST SERIES OF THE PROPHECIES OF ISAIAH.

IV.

..

.

Sect. I. Remarks on the first Four Chapters

122

II.

Chap. v...

140

III.

Chap, vi....

.. 148

Chap, vii., vüi., ix.

150

V.

Chap. x., xi., xii.

164

VI.

Chap. xiii., xiv.

176

VII.

Chap. xvii., xviii.

194

VIII,

Chap. xix. 16, &c.

204

IX.

Chap. xxiii. 18

208

X.

Chap. xxiv., xxv., xxvi., xxvii. •. 209

Chap. xxviii., xxix.

231

XII.

Chap. xxx., xxxi.

237

XIII.

Chap. xxxii.

243

XIV.

Chap. xxxiii.

252

XV.

Chap. xxxiv., xxxv.

260

XI.

CHAPTER THE SECOND.

THE SECOND SERIES OF THE PROPHECIES OF ISAIAH.

Introduction.....

Sect. I. Remarks on Chap. xl.

II.

Chap. xli.

III.

Chap. xlii.

IV.

Chap. xli...

V.

Chap. xliv., xlv....

VI.

Chap. xlvi., xlvii., and xlviii.

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272

281

289

298

309

320

CHAPTER THE THIRD.

THE THIRD SERIES OF THE PROPHECIES OF ISAIAH.

PAGE
327

Introduction

Secr. I. Remarks on Chap. xlix. ior...

II.

Chap. I......

III.

Chap. li....

IV.

Chap. lii.

v.

Chap. lii., liïi.

VI.

Chap. liv.

VII.

Chap. lv.

VIII.

Chap. lvi. 1–8....

IX.

Chap. lvi. 8, lvii.

X.

Chap. lviii...

XI.

Chap. lix.

XII.

Chap. Ix.

XIII.

Chap. Ixi.

XIV.

Chap. lxii.

XV.

Chap. Ixiï, 1-6

XVI.

Chap. lxii. 6,

Ixiv. ......

XVII.

Chap. Ixv.

XVIII.

Chap. Ixvi.

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338

343

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355

361

368

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378

387

396

403

411

415

417

60. 419

425
432