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HINTS on rnc INTERPRETATIONS eF PRopHEcY: BY d.


SrusRT5 Professor in AnaoVer Theological Seminary.


An(pver - Allea. Morrill, Wardwell: New-York--


DAYTON Newman.


The general attention which is paid to the Scrip
tursl Prophecies is a marked sign of the present
times. Interpreters TO be sure have before aboun-
ded--and have in various ages created alarm and
hope by their divinaton Of the future but now
mep of every class-the learned and the ualearned
---s en- 10 have turned interpreters, and TO nave
thrown forth their augrries in sermons, lectures
on books--one or alias suited them best. The
latest though neither The largest most pretend
ing, work on this subject that has come 10 our
notice i, ,bat of which wc have given the title
above--wrten by gentleman widely known as,a
learned and able commentator on the Bible. The
positions he assumes and seeks to maintain are
these three


J. He contends that the Sacred Prophecies do
not contain the double or occult which is
almost universally aseribed 10 them: but that they
bear precisely and only the meaning which their
words import.


9 He maintains that Prophecy sperfectly in
telligihle--even before fulfilled; and that every
book is fully interpreted when the exact mind of
the writer is unfolded


3; He insists that with regard to the designa-
ton of time, every passage in prophecy is to be
interpreted bearing primary and literal sense ::
that a prophetic day is, not year, but simply a
day: aud that therefore all the labor and learning
that have been bestowed upon tracing the events
of History with a view to adapt them to the Pro-
phecies, on the ground that prophetic day means
really year, have been quito thrown away.


These are the chief points he seeks to establish:
the discussion is conducted with the fairness, ab-
ity and learning which are characteristic of the
author and all men of candor will receive en-
Iightenrncnt and benefit. if they be not convinced
of its trath, by reading the work.