But the prophets have directed us to expect no Messiah but one born of the seed of David.
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As to the works of Jesus, we object to what he said concerning himself:--'Do not consider me as come to establish peace on earth, for I have come to send a sword, and to separate the son from the father, and the daughter from her mother, and the daughter-in-law from her mother-in-law,' which words are written in Mat.ch.x.But we find the prophecies concerning the Messiah to attribute to him very different works from these; nay, the very opposite.

For, whereas Jesus testifies concerning himself, that he did not come to establish peace in the earth, but 'division,' 'fire' and 'sword,' Zechariah says, concerning the expected Messiah, ch.
ix.:--'He shall speak peace to the nations.' Jesus says he came to send 'fire and sword' upon the earth, but Micah says, ch.ii., that in the times of the true Messiah they shall beat their swords into ploughshares, and their spears into pruning hooks, nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.' Jesus says that he came 'to put division between the father and the son,' &c.

But in the time of the true Messiah, Elias, the prophet, shall come, of whom Malachi prophecied 'that he shall convert the heart of the fathers unto the children, and the heart of the children to the fathers.' Jesus says 'that he came to serve others, not to be served by them' - Mat.xx.29.But of the true Messiah it is said, Psalm lxxii.:--'All kings shall bow themselves before him, all nations shall serve him.' The same also is said by Zechariah, ch.

ix.:-- 'His dominion shall be, from one sea to the other, and from the river unto the ends of the earth;' and so Dan., ch.