. The Methodist magazine and quarterly review . el; and one king shallbe king to them all, and they shall be no more two nations, neithershall they be divided into two kingdoms any more at all, , 15-17,21,22. The predictions quoted above were deliveredduring the Babylonish captivity; and we venture to assert, that, inso far as they are to be understood literally, they have been literallyfulfilled. No such gathering yet future can be deduced from thesewords of Ezekiel, without greatly torturing the spirit of is admitted on all hands that the thirty-seventh chapter of Ezek
. The Methodist magazine and quarterly review . el; and one king shallbe king to them all, and they shall be no more two nations, neithershall they be divided into two kingdoms any more at all, , 15-17,21,22. The predictions quoted above were deliveredduring the Babylonish captivity; and we venture to assert, that, inso far as they are to be understood literally, they have been literallyfulfilled. No such gathering yet future can be deduced from thesewords of Ezekiel, without greatly torturing the spirit of is admitted on all hands that the thirty-seventh chapter of Ezekieldoes refer to the return of the Jews from the Babylonish captivity,and the political union of Israel and Judah subsequent thereto, andcommencing probably before. Dr. Clarke briefly says on the 22dverse: There was no distinction after the return from is also well known that, after the settlement of Judea, all the de-scendants of Jacob were known by the common appellation ofJews. Thus the sticks of Judah and Ephraim are united, and. 380 Gathering of the Jews* represent one kingdom. The wars which had been carried on be-tween the ten and two tribes from this time cease: Common suf-ferings during the captivity became the means of reviving a kinderfeeling. And as Matthew Henry very properly remarks, Theirbeing joint sharers in the favor of God, and the great and commondeliverance wrought out for them all, should help to unite loving them all was a good reason why they should love oneanother. Times of common joy, as well as times of common sutler-ing, should be healing, loving times. Benson on the passage, Iwill make them one nation, says: This promise was in a greatdegree fulfilled in the restoration of the Jews to their own landfrom their captivity in Babylon—for then many of the house of Is-rael returned with the house of Judah, and were united in one bodywith them, and were under one and the same governor, Newton, after appropriate rema
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