place will I give peace, saith the Lord of Hosts."*

The prophecy of Malachi relates to both the Messiah and his messenger. "Behold I will send my messenger, who shall prepare the way before me; and the Lord, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to his temple, even the messenger of the covenant, whom ye delight in : behold he shall come, saith the Lord of Hosts."+ Accordingly, Jesus, as the messenger of the covenant, in the course of his ministry, entered into the temple, and laid claim to it, and cast out those who abused and polluted it. Again, Malachi says, " Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord." And Christ tells us expressly that this messenger was John the Baptist. ||

At the 42d verse of the 22d chapter of St. Matthew, Christ, in his contention with the Pharisees, refers to the 110th Psalm, and asks, "What think ye of Christ, whose Son is he? They say unto him, the Son of David. He saith unto them, How then doth David in spirit call him Lord, saying, The Lord said unto my Haggai ii. 7-9.

† Malachi iii. 1.

*

Lord, sit thou on my right hand, until I make thine enemies thy footstool?* If David then call him Lord, how is he his son?" We are informed that " no man could answer him a word, neither durst any man from that day forth. ask him any more questions." And we can understand how it was impossible for any man to answer the question, who was not persuaded that the verse of the Psalm quoted was a prophecy of the Messiah; for, without this acknowledgment, the question was unanswerable.

In the remarkable speech of St. Peter to the people, on the day of Pentecost, a most powerful attestation is given to the resurrection of Jesus, from the prophecy of David in the book of Psalms, "Ye men of Israel, hear these words; Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved of God among you by miracles, and wonders, and signs, which God did by him in the midst of you, as ye yourselves also know: Him, being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and slain; whom God hath raised up, having loosed the pains of death: because it was not possible that he

* Psalm cx. 1.

should be holden of it. For David speaketh
concerning him, I foresaw the Lord always
before my face; for he is on my right hand,
that I should not be moved: therefore did my
heart rejoice, and my tongue was glad more-
over also, my flesh shall rest in hope: because
thou wilt not leave my soul in hell, neither wilt
thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.'
St. Paul, also, in the synagogue at Antioch,
in Pisidia, giving a detail of the history of
religion, from the Patriarchs to the resurrection
of Christ, says, towards the conclusion of his
speech," And we declare unto you glad tidings,
how that the promise which was made unto the
fathers, God hath fulfilled the same unto us
their children, in that he hath raised up Jesus
again; as it is also written in the second Psalm,
Thou art my son, this day have I begotten
thee. And as concerning that he raised him
up from the dead, now no more to return to
corruption, he said on this wise, I will give you
the sure mercies of David. Wherefore he

saith also, in another Psalm, Thou shalt not
suffer thine Holy One to see corruption. For
David, after he had served his own generation,

by the will of God, fell asleep, and was laid unto his fathers, and saw corruption; but he whom God raised again saw no corruption." We have here, then, the testimony of the Apostle of the circumcision, and also of the Apostle of the Gentiles, that David foresaw the Lord Jesus, and prophesied in a particular manner of his resurrection.

St. Peter informs the Jews, in the Acts of the Apostles, that Moses prophesied of Christ. "Moses truly said unto the fathers, a prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto you of your brethren, like unto me; him shall ye hear in all thingswhats oever he shall say unto you. And it shall come to pass that every soul which will not hear that prophet, shall be destroyed from among the people." St. Peter adds, "Yea, and all the prophets from Samuel, and those that follow after, as many as have spoken, have also foretold of these days."

Then the Apostle

goes on to apply the prophecies to Jesus, and to the people who were to be blessed in him. "Ye are the children of the prophets, and of the covenant which God made with our fathers, saying unto Abraham, And in thy seed shall all

* Psalm xvi. 11; and Acts xiii. 36, 37.

the kindreds of the earth be blessed. Unto you first, God, having raised up his son Jesus, sent him to bless you, in turning away every one of you from his iniquities."*

With regard to the prophecy of Moses, that a prophet should arise like unto him, our Saviour himself declares that "Moses wrote of him;" and it is certain that no one like unto Moses was seen until Jesus Christ appeared in the world. Joshua, and the other governors of the Jews who succeeded Moses, were only appointed to uphold the law which Moses, by the command of God, had promulgated; they had no similar communion with God, compared to him, with whom God spake face to face, as a man speaketh to his friend."† Moreover, Moses was the promulgator of that covenant which was given by God to the Jews, from Mount Horeb; and Jesus was the publisher of a new and better covenant, bestowed by the same God upon all mankind, at a time when the old covenant was ready to vanish away. Accordingly, Moses is in the scriptures contrasted with Christ, and called a mediator; although Christ, as is most due, has in all things the pre

*Acts iii. 22-26.

+ Exodus xxxiii. 11.