...meaning his Refurre&ion from the Dead. And again, when they asked, What Sign fheweft tbou ? He anfwers, Deftroy this Temple, and in three Days I will raife it up. So that the Tendency of their Demand feem'd to imply a Foretelling of fomething Future. ''A, It looks...

...Graves. And fince our Lord Himfelf did infallibly raife his own Body, according to his Prediction, Deftroy this Temple, and in three ^ Days I will raife it up *. Since He declared it to be *j0hnii. 15. his own Body by the moft evident Convidionsof Senfe; Behold...

...People alfo ; when, upon the Jews requiring of him a Sign, at one time he faid unto them, (Joh. ii. 19,) Deftroy this Temple, and in three days I will raife it up ; and at another time, (Matt. xii. 39,) To an evil and adulterous generation, there Jhall no Sign be...

...able to deftroy the Temple of God, and to build it in three days. Markxiv. 58. xv. 29. John ii. 19. deftroy this Temple, and in three days I will raife it up. Matt, xxvii. 63. After three . days I ivill rife again. Mark viii. 32. And after three day 3 rife again....

...which, upon maturer Confideration, proves to be a confiderable Beauty and Elegance of Diction. Thus, Deftroy this Temple, and in three Days I will raife it up, has been thought by fomc to be a ridiculous and affected Way of fpeaking ; and it might perhaps be...

...glory] wrought in Chrift, when he raifed him * from the dead.' John ii. 1 9. ' Jefus anfwered * and faid unto them, Deftroy this temple, and ' in three days I will raife it up.' Rom. viii. n. ' But if the Spirit of him that raifed up Jefus from ' the dead, dwell In you; he that...

...and faid to him : What fign (heweft thou, that thou doeft thefe things? Jefus anfwered and faid to them : Deftroy this temple, and in three days I will raife it up. Then the Jews faid : This temple was fix-and-forty years building, and wilt thou raife it up in three...

...the form of expreffion, is undoubtedly agreeable to that fign he gave the Jews of his Meffiahfhip, Deftroy this temple, and in three days I will raife it up -j- ; where, tho' the Jews mifunderftood him of the Temple of Jerufalem, yet the Evangelift aflures...

...another end, and differently expreffed : For when the Jexvs afked him to fliew them a fign, he faid; Deftroy this temple, and in three days I will raife it up. In fuch cafes as thefe, an innocent man is half confounded, and looketh as if he were guilty, fince...

...wrefl my wprds? aU their thoughts are againft rot for evil. John ii. 19. Jelus anfwered. ami faid' unto them, Deftroy this temple, and in three days I will raife it up. Compared with Mat. xxvi. . 60.— At the laft came two falfe wiïnéfles, v. 6 1 . and faid, This fellow...