which is represented by being on the right hand of the Judge, while the Jews, rejected of God, which is represented by being placed on the left hand, were cast out into outer darkness, where there was weeping and gnashing of teeth. All this was accomplished at Jerusalem, when Christ came to judgment, as he declared he should, before the generation then on the earth, should pass away. This the Jews, as a people, have suffered.

Hence the Saviour said, I say unto 'I you, that many shall come from the east and from the west, and shall sit down with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven; but the children of the kingdom shall be cast out into outer darkness, where there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth.' Those who came from the east and west, were the Gentiles; and the children of the kingdom were the Jews, who were denied

the privileges of the gospel kingdom, as a punishment, until the fulness of the Gentiles should be gathered in. Rom. xi: 25. To the same purpose is the language of our Saviour on another occasion. 'Wo unto you Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye build the tombs of the prophets, and garnish the sepulchres of the righteous, and say, If we had been in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets. Fill ye up, then, the measure of your fathers. Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers! How can ye escape the damnation of hell? Wherefore, behold, I send unto you prophets, and wise men, and scribes ; and some of them ye will kill and crucify; and some of them will ye scourge in your synagogues, and persecute them from city to city; that upon you may come all the righteous blood shed upon the earth, from the

blood of righteous Abel, unto the blood of Zacharias, son of Barachias, whom ye slew between the temple and altar. Verily I say unto you, all these things shall come upon this generation. Matt. xxiii: 29-36.

This same subject is further illustrated by the following scriptures. When ye, therefore, shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place,whoso readeth, let him understand; then let them which be in Judea flee unto the mountains; let him which is on the house-top not come down to take any thing out of his house; neither let him which is in the field return back to take his clothes. * * * For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not from the beginning of the world to this time, no nor ever shall be.' Matt. xxiv: 15-18, and 21.

history of the Jewish

Josephus in his

wars, tells us

many of the Jews when they saw the signs here foretold by Christ, forsook the city as men do a sinking ship, and took refuge in the mountains.

Then shall appear the sign of the son of man in heaven; and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the son of man coming in the clouds of heaven, with power and great glory. And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet; and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other. Now learn a parable of the fig-tree. When his branch is yet tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye know summer is nigh.' Matt. xxiv: 30-32. And when ye shall see Jerusalem compassed with armies, then know the desolation thereof is nigh.

For these be the days of

vengeance, that all things which are ** And

written may be fulfilled.

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they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led away captive into all nations; and Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled.' Luke xxi: 20, 22 and 24.

The same subject is had in view by Daniel, when he says-And at that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people, and there shall be a time. of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation, even to that same time; and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book. And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.' Ch. xii : Î, 2.

The book out of which they were judged, was the book of life.' Those who believed Moses and the prophets,