Christian herald and signs of our times . nd a Professorof Princeton in 1851. He has now occupied thechair of Oriental and Old Testament literaturein that institution for forty years. in this department is unsurpassed. In ad-dition to his work as an instructor, he has pub-lished a Hebrew grammar, a Hebrew Chrestom-athy, Moses and the Prophets, which was a re-ply to Robertson Smith and Kuenen; The He-brew Feasts, a reply to Wellhausen, and manyother works. He was one of the translators ofLanges Commentary, and was one of the com-mittee on the Revised Version of the Bible.
Christian herald and signs of our times . nd a Professorof Princeton in 1851. He has now occupied thechair of Oriental and Old Testament literaturein that institution for forty years. in this department is unsurpassed. In ad-dition to his work as an instructor, he has pub-lished a Hebrew grammar, a Hebrew Chrestom-athy, Moses and the Prophets, which was a re-ply to Robertson Smith and Kuenen; The He-brew Feasts, a reply to Wellhausen, and manyother works. He was one of the translators ofLanges Commentary, and was one of the com-mittee on the Revised Version of the Bible. is recognized as the highest authorityin America on the conservative side in thehigher criticism of the old Testament. TheAssembly is to be congratulated on having forits presiding officer a man so well qualified, sofar as learning goes, to deal with the questionswhich it will have to consider in relation to theappointment of Dr. Briggs mentioned on page331 of this issue. 326 THE CHRISTIAN HERALD AND SIGNS OF OUR TIMES. May 27, THE WORLDS LAST DIVISIONS. How tin- World ^iii be Divided In the Days Precedingtin Millennium. 11 RE! HENRY ST1TBT. F tlie four monarchies re-presented by the Great(mage in Daniel 2 : thefourth was the Roman*^^^6sii ? Wf fiS Empire. This monarchy**^A/«^*^j£«7 is represented in twostages—by the iron legsif 1 the first stage, and bythe clay-iron feet and toesin the second stage. Theiron was Roman Imperialism. The Roman Em-pire was in this first stage of its history whenChrist was corn, being then in its unity, andthe height of Sis glory, under Augustus fourth e-ripire closes in a ten-fold division,represented L>v the ten toes of the image andthey ar° ail composed of iron and clay. Itsfirst division was into East and West, corres-ponding to the two legs of the image. But itsfinal division will be into exactly ten you take a map of The Roman Empireyou will see now it embraces all the countriesaround the Mediterrane
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