THE

THEOLOGICAL REVIEW:

A JOURNAL

OF

RELIGIOUS THOUGHT AND LIFE.

"Our fathers worshiped in this mountain; and ye say, that in Jerusalem is
the place where men ought to worship."

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"The hour cometh, when ye shall neither in this mountain, nor yet at Jeru-
salem, worship the Father.
But the hour cometh, and now is, when

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the true worshipers shall worship the
Father seeketh such to worship Him.
Him must worship Him in spirit and in truth." (John iv. 20, 21, 23, 24.)

Father in spirit and in truth for the
God is a Spirit: and they that worship

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THE

THEOLOGICAL REVIEW.

No. XXXII-JANUARY, 1871.

I. THE RELATION OF THE NEW TESTAMENT MES-
SIAH TO HIS JEWISH PROTOTYPE.—III.

HAVING examined the person and character of the Jewish Messiah, we proceed to consider whether Jesus of Nazareth corresponded to the prototype. This will bring up the question respecting the application of passages in the Old Testament to Jesus in the New. Are the quotations properly made? Is the sense they give to the Old Testament the true one? Here the hypothesis of a double sense presents itself. In treating these topics we shall pursue the following order, and inquire,

1. Is the sense of Scripture one, or may it be twofold? 2. What is meant by the principle of accommodation in explaining quotations from the Old Testament in the New? 3. We shall then classify citations and examine them in detail; and, finally,

4. Investigate the mode in which Jesus fulfilled Messianic prophecies; shewing the fallacy of Collins's argument, as well as that of the Jews, against Christianity; the weakness of the answer to Collins given by Bishop Chandler and others; with a correct statement of the case.

1. The sense of Scripture is that which the writers intended when they used certain words to convey to the reader such ideas as were in their minds: and the business of an interpreter is to seek out and set forth the ideas so expressed. What did an author mean to communicate, what ideas did he purpose to excite in the mind of the reader? is the primary question with which an interpreter has to do. After its solution he has only to convey to others in perspicuous language the sense ascertained.

As the Bible was meant to be understood by all, we sup