|
Posted by Abhijit on January 11, 2008, 5:43 pm
Please log in for more thread options
been indeed so true in the result that, being alone almost as fruitful
as the two entire lines which composed a whole kingdom, they have been
usually called by the name of Ephraim alone.
This same Joseph, when dying, bade his children carry his bones with them
when they should go into that land to which they only came two hundred years
afterwards.
Moses, who wrote all these things so long before they happened, himself
assigned to each family portions of that land before they entered it, as
though he had been its ruler. In fact he declared that God was to raise up
from their nation and their race a prophet, of whom he was the type; and he
foretold them exactly all that was to happen to them in the land which they
were to enter after his death, the victories which God would give them,
their ingratitude towards God, the punishments which they would receive for
it, and the rest of their adventures. He gave them judges who should make
the division. He prescribed the entire form of political government which
they should observe, the cities of refuge which they should build, and...
712. The propheci
| 
XML site map