vii.:--'All dominions shall serve and obey him.' "3.

As to the time, we object to the Christians, that Jesus did not come at the time designated by the prophets; for the prophets testify, that the coming of the Messiah should be 'in the end of days' or, in the latter days, (which, surely, have not yet arrived) as it is in Isaiah ch.

ii.:--'It shall come to pass in the latter days, that the mountain of the Lord's house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and all nations shall flow unto it;' and it immediately follows, concerning the king Messiah, 'that he shall judge among the nations, and rebuke many peoples, and they shall beat their words into ploughshares, and their spears into pruning hooks.' See also Hosea, ch.

iii, and also Dan., ch.ii., where it is written:--'God hath made known unto king Nebuchadnezzar what shall come to pass in the latter days,' (or, in the end of days.) And this pertains to what follows, viz., to this:--'In the days of those kings, (i.e., of the kingdoms that arose out of the ruins of the Roman Empire) the God of heaven will raise up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed.' Thus you see, that the prophets predicted, that the kingdom of the Messiah should be after the destruction of the Roman Empire, not while it was in its vigour; when Jesus came; in 'the latter days,' and not before.* "4.

Besides all these difficulties, neither were the promises made to us by the prophets, concerning the things to come to pass at the coming of the Messiah, fulfilled in the time of Jesus.