Theological Theses · §34

Gospel events clearly foretold; Isaiah 53 and Daniel 9 show stunning Messianic consensus

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But what is chief: what the Gospel teaches us concerning the nativity, life, passion, death, and burial of Jesus Christ, concerning his resurrection and ascension into heaven; likewise concerning the fruit of his death and passion, the calling of the Gentiles, the desolation of the Jewish nation, and the abrogation of the ceremonial worship, with nearly every circumstance of these things — these are found clearly and openly predicted in the Prophets. Among other things Isaiah chapter 53 is notable, where he speaks of the death and passion of Christ our Redeemer, and of his offering for the sins of the world, so expressly and clearly that he seems to narrate a thing already done, not to predict a future one (Isaiah 53). And Daniel chapter 9 expressly designates the time at which Christ was to come, and at once to be cut off, and to put an end to sacrifices — namely after seventy weeks of years, which the dreadful destruction of the whole Jewish nation was to follow (Daniel 9): so that for one comparing the oracles of Moses and the Prophets concerning the Messiah with the Gospel history of Christ, a wondrous and plainly stupendous consensus at once appears. Whence it is manifestly proved both that the Prophets' books are divine, since they contain predictions of things that happened after so great a space of time, and that the Gospel history is true and divine, since God through the Prophets bore testimony to it so many ages beforehand.

Latin

XXVII. Sed quod praecipuum est, quae nos docet Evangelium de nativitate, de vita, de passione, de morte, de sepultura Jesu Christi, de ejusdem resurrectione et ascensione in coelum: item de fructu mortis et passionis ejus, de Gentium vocatione, Judaicae Gentis desolatione, et abrogatione cultus caeremonialis cum singulis fere harum rerum circumstantiis, reperiuntur in Prophetis clare et aperte praedicta. Inter alia insigne est Esaiae caput 53. ubi de Christi redemptoris nostri morte et passione, et pro peccatis mundi oblatione tam diserte et clare loquitur, ut videatur narrare rem gestam, non futuram praedicere: Et Danielis caput 9. ubi expresse designat tempus, quo Christus adventurus erat, statimque excindendus, et sacrificiis finem impositurus, nimirum post septuaginta annorum septimanas, quas sequuturum erat horrendum totius gentis Judaicae excidium: ita ut conferenti Mosis et Prophetarum oracula de Messia cum Evangelica de Christo historia, mirus ac plane stupendus statim appareat consensus. Unde manifeste probatur et Prophetarum libros esse divinos, quandoquidem continent praedictiones rerum, quae tanto post temporis spatio contigerunt: Et Evangelicam quoque historiam veram et divinam esse, quandoquidem Deus per Prophetas tot ante saeculis ipsi testimonium perhibuit.

About this text

Louis Le Blanc de Beaulieu - Sedan Theological Theses, newly rendered from the 1675 London Latin. Covers De Theologia through Angelorum & Hominum Sanctorum Cultu Romana I-LXXVII and Pars Secunda (Reformata) I-XL. Not the collected folio.

English follows locked Pitt Latin through Imaginum CLOSED + Sanctorum Cultu Romana CLOSED + Pars Secunda Reformata I-XL. 1675 PDF ~384-390 (book ~370-376); Vision OCR + pdftotext + tess. No modern English. This slice densifies Sanctorum Pars Secunda I-XL. Next: Pars Secunda XLI–fin (~CI). Claim stays claimed (book densify not done).

Catalogue & scope

ESTC R17887; Wing L802. IA bub_gb_eOkHAW4G0-wC (+ EEBO 1675 for gap leaves). Densify through Sanctorum Cultu Romana I-LXXVII + Pars Secunda Reformata I-XL (Pars Secunda not closed; not whole folio).

Witnesses

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