...Old Testament, not to gratify men's curiosity by enabling them to. foreknow things, but to the end that, after they were fulfilled, they might be interpreted by the event ; and his own providence, not the wisdom or the skill of the interpreter, be then manifested thereby to the...

...of time, it is designedly obscure : " For God gave such predictions, not to gratify men's curiosity, by enabling them to foreknow things ; but that after...fulfilled, they might be interpreted by the event, and his own providence, not that of the interpreter, be then manifested thereby to the world." 3 This same...

...the Old Testament, not to gratify men's curiosity by enabling them to foreknow things, but to the end that, after they were fulfilled, they might be interpreted by the event ; and his own providence, not the wisdom or the skill of the interpreter, be then manifested thereby to the...

...prophecies of the OUl Testament, not to gratify men's curiosities, by enabling them ta-fore• know things, but that after they were fulfilled, they might be interpreted by the event, and His own Providence, not the interpreters, be then manifested thereby to the world. For the events of...

...much otherwise. He gave this and the prophecies of the Old Testament, not to gratify men's curiosity by enabling them to foreknow things; but that, after...fulfilled, they might be interpreted by the event ; and the pro vidence of God, not the interpreter's, be manifested thereby to the world. For the event of...

...is most openly and absurdly untrue — to say that the prophecies " were not given to enable " men to foreknow things, but that after they " were fulfilled, they might be interpreted by " the event." Let us try the truth of this statement by one or two prophecies, fulfilled and unfulfilled. Was the...

...contempt. The design of God was much otherwise. He gave this, and the prophecies of the Old Testament, not to gratify men's curiosities by enabling them to foreknow things, but that, after that they were fulfilled, they might be interpreted by the event ; and his own Providence, not the...

...contempt. The design of God was much otherwise. He gave this, and the prophecies of the Old Testament, not to gratify men's curiosities by enabling them to foreknow things, but that, after that they were fulfilled, they might be interpreted by the event ; and his own Providence, not the...

...Old Testament, not to gratify men's curiosities, by enabling them to foreknow things ; but, u 2 231 that, after they were fulfilled, they might be interpreted by the event." The Jews are at this moment a living monument, and miracle in attestation of the truth of Revelation....

...(the Apocalyptic Prophecies,) and the Prophecies of the Old Testament, not to gratify men's curiosity, by enabling them to foreknow things, but that, after...fulfilled, they might be interpreted by the event, and his own Providence, not the interpreter's, be then manifested thereby to the world." Newton on Apocalypse,...