...their prince for ever" (Ezek. xxxiv. 24, 25) ; and again by Hosca : " The children, of Israel shall return and seek the Lord their God, and David their...fear the Lord and His goodness in the latter days" (iii. 5). David represents the Lord. The Lord is the only David for whom Israel, the spiritual church,...

...tied. No. 6. The most difficult passage, perhaps, is Hosea iii. 4. "The children of Israel shall abide many days without a king, and without a prince, and without a sacrifice, and without an image, matzibeh, which [FRAGMENT, No. 166,] might refer to a monument of a covenant sacrifice, or pacificatory...

...iii. 4, 5, is the next passage. It is as follows : " The children of Israel shall abide many clays without a king, and without a prince, and without a sacrifice, and without an ephod, and without a teraphim. Afterward shall the children of Israel return, and seek the Lord their...

...shalt not be for another man : so will 1 also be for thee. 4 For the children of Israel shall abide many days without a king, and without a prince, and...a sacrifice, and without an image, and without an cphod, and without teraphim: 5 Afterward shall the children of Israel return, and seek the LORD their...

...that arc yet to come, when he speaks of them, as being many days without a king, without a prince, -without a sacrifice, and -without an image, and without an ephod, and without teraphim, Hos. iii. 4. which seems to point at the condition in which they now are ; and he adds, in the following...

...Aftenvards the children of Israel shall seek the Lord their God, und David their king, to wit, Christ, and shall fear the Lord and his goodness in the latter days ; which seems to intend their conversion, which is yet expected. Thus far our faith, as to this matter,...

...the Divine blessing we shall in due time reap if we faint not. " ' The children of Israelhave abode many days without a king, and without a prince, and...image, and without an ephod, and without teraphim.' But let us not forget that God hath also said, ' Afterwards they shall return, and seek the Lord their...

...where of the truth of Christianity-— yet, with this promise, that " the children of Israel shall return and seek the Lord their God, and David their...fear the Lord and his goodness in the latter days."* The accession of Vespasian to the imperial dignity, connected with the termination of the Jewish war,...

...without Teraphim (or Divine manifestation.) Afterward shall the children of Israel rcturn, and seck the Lord their God, and David their king, and shall fear the Lord and his goodness in the latter days." We have secn that the great empires, which in their turns oppressed and subdued the pcople Of God,...

...neither king nor prince in Israel, ac' cording to that prophecy : " The children of ' Israel shall abide many days without a king and ' without a prince, and without a sacrifice, and ' without an image." Hos. iii. 4. — There will be ' no masters of academies, no chief of a syna1 gogue, no faithful pastors,...