and all that is therein; the isles and the inhabitants thereof." If our theory be accepted, then are these words most grandly exemplified already before the eyes of the whole world.

(6.) And now is it asked how such a vast multitude as the Anglo-Saxons now are-and growing vaster every year-can share in the restoration of the Jews to Palestine? We have the answer direct from the lips of Isaiah. "For though thy people, Israel, be as the sand of the sea, a remnant of them shall return. * * I will take you one of a city and two of a family, and bring you to Zion." The Jews, as distinguished from the Ten Tribes, have no cities which can be called their own. In all they are not more than six or seven millions; some say less than five. They could all easily be accommodated in Palestine. They are not more than the northern kingdom under Jeroboam the Second. If only such a small proportion of the Jews (as the prophet indicates) were to return to Palestine the land would be desolate still. The prophecy plainly points to some far more numerous body. But where are they? If they be not the Anglo-Saxons, then no one can answer the question. But if it be they, then, if the Jews should return as a body, and with them, as representatives of the mightiest nation and most prosperous people on earth, a select band of scholars, divines, teachers, and statesmen, to co-operate and aid them, with all the influ ence and power of the Anglo-Saxon race behind them; then indeed can we see how they would be able to take possession of their land in spite of Russian or Turk, and how they would be able to overawe and bring into subjection all surrounding peoples.

This, perhaps, is the very strongest reason for thinking the theory a sound one;-that it sweeps away at once all difficulty in understanding how the great change is to be brought about by

which God's ancient people shall once more more hold supremacy among the nations. The Jews, repentant and restored as a body to Palestine, favored with the visible presence of Christ, and supported by Britain and her vast empire, by America stretching from ocean to ocean, by the whole Anglo-Saxon race in their world-wide and irresistible power, thrilled and exalted by the revelation of their real identity with the people of God, could not be otherwise than the acknowledged leaders and sovereigns of the whole world.

Then indeed most naturally and inevitably would the prophetic words be verified: "Thou art my servant, I have chosen thee and not cast thee away; they that war against thee shall be as nothing, as a thing of nought; no weapon that is formed against *** The Lord thy God will set thee on high

thee shall prosper.

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above all nations of the earth."

In reviewing the above argument it is hardly necessary to say that it falls far short of convincing proof. Some sifting would be necessary to determine just how much weight is due to the arguments from history and language; but at the highest they fall short of any considerable degree of probability. The remaining arguments are hardly worth noticing, save as curious coincidences, such as are constantly occurring. Perhaps it may be said that the evidence is such as to render it barely possible that the theory may be true. And if And if so, then this bare possibility has a certain apologetic value; since, if no other theory consistent with Scripture can be found, this remains as a last resort with which to stop the mouth of the sceptic. Meantime we may rest content, assured hat in His own time and way God will verify His word.

THE GLORY OF GOD, ETC.-See Ez. 8: 4; 11: 23.

THE JEWISH AGE, ETC.-The return from captivity, under Zerubbabel, restored the Jews to a measure of prosperity, but only in

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a subordinate worldly position. See Chapter II., Part III. on prophetic dates for a fuller statement.

A GIGANTIC WALL, ETC.-The dimensions of the great wall of Babylon are variously given; but those here stated are well supported, and do not seem incredible when we remember Alexander's embankment at Gaza, mentioned in Chapter III., Part 1.

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IF MEGASTHENES CAN BE BELIEVED, ETC.-His statements are called Page in question by some writers, and are not perhaps to be implicitly relied on.

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A SPECIES OF MADNESS, ETC.-Nebuchadnezzar's disease was a form of insanity known as Lycanthropy, in which the patient imagines himself some animal and acts accordingly. As he was the "head" of the first of the four Gentile Empires, some able writers regard him as a representative character, and hold that the "seven times" (of his demented state) are to be taken in a double sense, meaning seven literal years as applied to himself, but seven prophetic years (twenty-five hundred and twenty literal years) as applied to Gentile supremacy. See Chapter II., Part III.

GOD'S PURPOSE THAT BABYLON SHOULD FALL, ETC.-It is to be specially noted that the Persian kings, with brief and rare exceptions, were favorable to the Jews. The Persians were Monotheists, and as such would naturally sympathize with the Jews and favor the restoration of their temple. The providence of God toward this people could hardly be more manifest than in the conquest of Babylon by Cyrus; and hence the intense interest felt in the event by Isaiah and Daniel.

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CHAPTER II.

FORTY THOUSAND WERE SLAIN, ETC.-The numbers given can only be Page looked at as approximately correct; probably the strict tale would be considerably less than the figures given.

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A ROMAN JUDGE, ETC.-Lucius Junius Brutus, who condemned his two sons, Titus and Tiberius, detected in a conspiracy to Page bring back the Tarquins; they were both scourged and beheaded before his eyes.

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CHAPTER III.

THE MOST NUMEROUS ARMY, ETC.-But it was never all put in line of battle together. The army of Darius at Arbela seems to have been the largest ever actually engaged in a single battle; yet it could not compare in real strength (however well commanded) with the French (and allied) army that invaded Russia in 1812, or with the German host that overran France in 1870.

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AGAIN SEATED UPON HIS MARBLE THRONE, ETC.-There seems to be no certain evidence that the marble throne of Xerxes was erected Page on Salamis, but it is so highly probable that we can hardly doubt it.

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ESCHINES IS ABOUT TO SPEAK, ETC.-The words here ascribed to

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Eschines were actually spoken by him in an oration delivered at
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THE RANSOMED OF THE LORD, ETC.-There is no difficulty in understanding a double application of these words, first to the event Page here narrated, and secondly to that great future Restoration, of which the first was but a foregleam.

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BUT JADDUA, ETC.-The incident here given is narrated by Josephus with no hint that it is of doubtiul authenticity, and there seems to be no good reason for setting it aside. Grote, while treating it as doubtful, acknowledges that it accords well with Alexander's known character.

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THOU SHALT SOON SEE, REPLIES JUDAS, ETC.-The words here ascribed to Judas were actually spoken by him on the eve of a previous battle, but, of course, express his sentiments equally well on this occasion. See 1 Maccabees 3:18-22.

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THE PROPHETIC WORD, ETC.-The predictions of the eleventh chapter Page of Daniel were strikingly fulfilled. The following brief sketch. may be of interest:

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Dan. XI. The three kings were Cambyses, Smerdis, Darius; the fourth was

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Verse 5. The "king of the south" refers to the Ptolemies of Egypt. The "king of the north" refers to the Syrian dynasty.

Verse 5. Ptolemy Philadelphus gave his daughter Berenice to Antiochus II., king of Syria, who put away his wife, Laodice, in order to marry her, through fear of Philadelphus. When Philadelphus died, Antiochus set aside Berenice and restored Laodice, who, to secure herself against any future changes, caused both Antiochus and Berenice to be slain, and her son, Seleucus, to take the throne.