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Chapter IV.
And if the above be the state of the case, how do
Jews and Christians search after “the shadow of an ass,” in
seeking to ascertain from those prophecies which they believe in
common, whether He who was foretold has come, or has not yet arrived,
and is still an object of expectation? But even suppose3450
it be granted to Celsus that it was not
Jesus who was announced by the prophets, then, even on such a
hypothesis, the investigation of the sense of the prophetic writings is
no search after “the shadow of an ass,” if He who was
spoken of can be clearly pointed out, and it can be shown both what
sort of person He was predicted to be, and what He was to do, and, if
possible, when He was to arrive. But in the preceding pages we
have already spoken on the point of Jesus being the individual who was
foretold to be the Christ, quoting a few prophecies out of a larger
number. Neither Jews nor Christians, then, are wrong in assuming
that the prophets spoke under divine influence;3451
but they are in error who form erroneous opinions respecting Him who
was expected by the prophets to come, and whose person and character
were made known in their “true
discourses.”E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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