...pertaineth the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service of God, and the promises; whose are the fathers... ... and prerogatives. And perhaps so it would also have been done to Jerusalem and Judea, if they had listened to the preaching of the apostles and rec... ...ot himself declare the very contrary? —“Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.” Matt... ... of thy God; and teach ye them that know them not. And whosoever will not do the law of thy God, and the law of the king, let judgment be executed sp... ...h and Esdras, to celebrate the feast of tabernacles and hear the reading of the law, they one day burst forth into a bitter lamentation, upon which ... ...ity were built, after they, who returned, had established themselves throughout Judea, which they probably found deserted; for it is not said that th... ...rvitude; although only those should be taken into the account who then dwelt in Judea, which was a very small part in respect to that which was then ... ...ly them to those few slaves who returned by permission of Cyrus from Babylon to Judea? Reflect, my dear Sir, upon this capital point with all your a... ...means to those only whom Nebuchadnezzar carried to Babylon, and who returned to Judea by permission of Cyrus, as we have just proved; so the Babylon...