...rejected. This is St. Paul's application of the words i2 of Isaiah, in the Epistle to the Romans : Though the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, a remnant shall be saved. CHAPTER XL I. THE prophet in this chapter foretells, that although the kingdom and family of David...

...said unto them, Ye are not my eople; there shall they be called " e children of the living God. 27 Esaias also crieth concerning Israel, Though the number...be as the sand of the sea, a remnant shall be saved : 28 For he will finish the work, and cut it short in righteousness : because a short work will the...

...said unto them, Ye are not my people : there shall they be called, The children of the living God. 27 Esaias also crieth concerning Israel, Though the number...as the sand of the sea, a remnant shall be saved, 28 For he will finish the work, and cut it short in righteousness : because a short work will the Lord...

...shortened, there should be no fllesh be saved." So it is said in Romans, 9th chapter, and 38th verse: "He will finish the work, and cut it short in righteousness;...short work will the Lord make upon the earth." And he says in Revelation, 22nd chapter, and 12th verse: "Behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with...

...is certain, that a day might suffice to accomplish what remains unfulfilled by Him who has said, " He will finish the work, and cut it short in righteousness...because a short work will the Lord make upon the earth." The first advent took not place until the fulness of time had arrived, and every foreshewn sign was...

...Mark the 1 1th where we are told their destinies were fixed before they were born ; also the 27th. " Though the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, a remnant shall be saved. John further refers me to I Tim. ii. 1,2. "I exhort, therefore, that first of all, supplications, prayers,...

...Israel b as the sand of the sea, a remnan shall be saved. 28 For he will finish * tb 1 or, the account. work, and cut it short in righteousness : because " a short work will the Lord make upon the earth. — that the Jews might be rejected — ex isted in the time of Isaiah, and was settled then as a precedent,...

...shall they be called the children of the living Gix 27 Esaias also crieth concerning Israel, Though tb number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, a remnant shall be saved : 28 For he will finish the work, and cut it short in righteousness ; because a short work will the...

...cut off and rejected. Two such passages Paul quotes from Isaiah. The first is from Isaiah 10: 22, 23. Though the number of the children of Israel be as...righteousness: because a short work will the Lord make in the earth. This passage is nearer the LXX. translation than the Hebrew. The general sense is the...

...also crieth concerning " (for so the preposition, vnip, here signifieth, as in many other places) " Israel, Though the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea." Neither doth our Apostle in this testimony bind himself exactly to the words either of the Greek version,...