Excerpt from The Kingdom of Israel, From Its Inception Under Joshua, Its First President, in the Year of the World 2353, to the Second Advent of Christ: Considered First, as Typical Under Its Three First Heads, and the United States Shown to Be the Third and Last of Those Heads; Considered Second, as Antitypical, and the Confederate States Shown to Be the Grand Antitype in Its First Appearance We are assured by the most learned biblical scholars that the word world in the Hebrew has upward of twenty significations, only one of which mean the earth or globe on which we live, and that it is often used as Christ here uses it in refer ence to the Roman polity this however, no scholar will deny. Why then did he not assume the, reigns of government and rule his people nationally, and dcliv er them from Roman bondage? He does not tell us why; while it is very ev1 dent that the more important part of his mission claimed his first attention viz. The spiritual redemption of the world and if he had then thought proper to set up a political reign it would not have been over the little Jewish and Isrmlitish tribes. But over the whole earth for, if a king in any sense, He is King of Kings and Lord of Lords. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.