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| Of the Prophets, Who Either Were the Last Among the Jews, or Whom the Gospel History Reports About the Time of Christ’s Nativity.
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Chapter 24.—Of the Prophets, Who
Either Were the Last Among the Jews, or Whom the Gospel History
Reports About the Time of Christ’s Nativity.
But in that whole time after they
returned from Babylon, after Malachi, Haggai, and Zechariah, who
then prophesied, and Ezra, they had no prophets down to the time of
the Saviour’s advent except another Zechariah, the father of
John, and Elisabeth his wife, when the nativity of Christ was
already close at hand; and when He was already born, Simeon the
aged, and Anna a widow, and now very old; and, last of all, John
himself, who, being a young man, did not predict that Christ, now a
young man, was to come, but by prophetic knowledge pointed Him out
though unknown; for which reason the Lord Himself says, “The law
and the prophets were until John.”1133
But the prophesying of these
five is made known to us in the gospel, where the virgin mother of
our Lord herself is also found to have prophesied before John.
But this prophecy of theirs the wicked Jews do not receive; but
those innumerable persons received it who from them believed the
gospel. For then truly Israel was divided in two, by that
division which was foretold by Samuel the prophet to king Saul as
immutable. But even the reprobate Jews hold Malachi, Haggai,
Zechariah, and Ezra as the last received into canonical
authority. For there are also writings of these, as of others,
who being but a very few in the great multitude of prophets, have
written those books which have obtained canonical authority, of
whose predictions it seems good to me to put in this work some
which pertain to Christ and His Church; and this, by the Lord’s
help, shall be done more conveniently in the following book, that
we may not further burden this one, which is already too
long.E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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