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of the Septtaagint and the original Hebrew , and between both and the text of the New Testament , no doubt can remain upon his mind as to the identity of the books which are now deemed prophetical , and those from which the apostles and evangelists quoted . In estimating the comparative number of citations from different prophets , it will be found that those from Isaiah occur most frequently ; a circumstance which is easily explained when we consider how particularly adapted this book was , from the nature of the predictions contained in it , to
answer the purpose of the sacred writers , by securing attention to the doctrines and substantiating the claims of Jesus , On the other hand , no allusion whatever is contained in any part of the New Testament to Zephaniah and Obadiah ; nor is there any passage from which it can be legitimately inferred , that these books formed part of the Jewish canon in the days of the apostles : but this is sufficiently accounted for by the shortness of the books in question , taken in connexion with the occasional nature of the references made by the authors of the New Testament to all the prophetical writings .
By way of conclusion to this part of our inquiry , let us now go through the whole of the prophets in the order in which their works are printed in our English Bibles , and briefly state the evidence which the New Testament supplies in favour of the authenticity and credibility of each . Isaiah is repeatedly introduced as confirming the pretensions of Jesus Christ , and bearing testimony to the spiritual nature of the Messiah ' s kingdom : * Jeremiah is denominated a prophet and quoted as such : f Ezekiel , though not mentioned by name , is evidently alluded to by the author of the
Apocalypse : J Jesus gives the most unequivocal attestation to the accuracy of Daniel ' s predictions : § Hosea is quoted several times , and once by name : || Joel is cited by the apostles Peter and Paul , and is called by the former " the Prophet Joel : " ^[ Amos is twice quoted by Luke in the Acts of the Apostles : ** Jonah is denominated a " prophet , " and though not quoted , is referred to in terms which render it obvious that the history which we now have under his name was well known to the evangelical writers : f f the claim of Micah to a place among the prophets is tacitly
acknowledged by references to him in the Gospels of Matthew and John : JJ Nahum is not quoted , but the Apostle Paul appears to have had him in view when he wrote his Epistle to the Romans : §§ repeated allusions are made to the book of Habakkuk : ||( l the author of the Epistle to the Hebrews has quoted a passage from the book of Haggai : % ^ Zechariah is repeatedly cited in the Gospels of Matthew , Mark , and John ;*** and the evangelical writers afford the clearest attestations to the prophetical character of Malachif ff +
* Matt . iv . 14 , viii . 17 , xii . 17 , xiii . 14 ; Mark vii . 6 ; Luke Hi . 4 , iv . 17 j John xii . 39—41 ; Acts viii . 28 , xxviii . 25 ; Rom . ix . 27 , x . 16 , 20 , &c . f Matt . ii . 17 , 18 , xvi . 14 . X Comp . Rev , xix , 17 , and xx . 8 , 9 , with Ezek xxxviii . xxxix . 1—20 . § Matt . xxiv . 15 ; Mark xiii . 14 . H Matt . ii . 15 , ix . 13 , xii . 7 ; Rom . ix . 25 , 26 . K Acts ii . 16 ; Rom . x . 13 . Acts vii . 42 , 43 , xv . 15—17 .
ft Matt . xii . 39—41 , xvi . 4 ; Luke xi . 29 , 30 . XX Matt , ii . 5 , 6 ; John vii . 42 . §§ Comp , Rom . x . 15 , with Nahum i . 15 . UK Acts xiii . 41 ; Rom . i . 17 ; Gal . iii . 11 ; Heb . x . 37 , 38 . n Heb . xii , 26 . *** Matt . xxi . 4 , 5 , xxvi . 31 ; Mark xiv . 27 ; John xii . 15 , xix . $ 7 ttt Matt , xi , 10 - Mark i . 2 j Luke i , 16 , 17 , vii . 27 j Rom . ix . 13 ,
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Canonical Authority of the Boohs of the Prophets . 501
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1827, page 501, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1798/page/29/
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