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salern : t ^ hat period bein g , najv accom-, plished , he S £ t li ^ . face to seek $ o the tofd b y prayerj ajid in that prayer Ue thus addresses him , vers . ^ 17 , 18 : Q our God , hear tiie grayer of tl * y servant , and ftis supplications , and cause thy
face % o sUine upop thy sapctuary that is desolate , for the Ijord ' q sake . O my God , incline thinp ears and hear , and open thine eyes , and behold our desolatipns , and the city which is called by thy name . " This prayer , thq vision informs him , was heard , but that the
deliverance for which he prayed was obstructed by one of the princes of Persia , " who , " says he , " withstood me ( speaking as the representative of the Jewish High-priest ) " one and twenty days ; but lo , " says he , " Michael , one of the chief princes , helped me , and I remained with" ( in the
favour of ) " the kings of Persia ^ " . Now , who can this Michael be but Cyrus , the great deliverer of Israel , and God's chosen instrument , at that time , to restore Jerusalem , and to establish his 4
sanctuary and worship there ? < And now" C ^ ay s he , ver . 20 ) " wijl I Return apd fight with the prince of Persia ; and when I am gone forth , the prince of Grecia shall come ; but , " he adds , 4
< I will shew thee that which i § written in the scripture of truth ; " namely , what was written by Isaiah , ch . xlv ., concerning : this great , prince Cyrus , for to what else could he refer , since we never read tliat God ever
made Heathen princes his agents and ministers for the salvation of his people , till he raised up Cyrus for that purpose ; but of Cyrus it is written , " Thus saith the Lord to his anointed ,
to Cyrus , whose ri g ht hand I have holden , to subdue nations before him , " &c .: " I have raised him up in righteousness , and I will direct all his ways ; he shall build my cities , he shall let go my captives , not for price nor rewaql" " ? ,. The divine vision then adds ,, 4 t And tUere is none that holdshall let go my captives , not for price nor rewaql ? ,. The divine vision then adds ,, * And tUere is uo ^ e that
hold-^ eth / with me iq these things but Micfiael , yoyir jpjripce . " 0 aj ^ iel was at this ti ^ e , a captive in Babylori , which Cyrus , had re ; cejitljr subdued , &qd of which , he became , t | ta suprepae r ^ Jer ; he is therefore pr 6 perly denomiiiated his prince .
The 12 th chapter , where Michael is . again introduced , carries DaniePs predictions down to a very late period , to the final overthrow of the anti-
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christian ^^ ers , and the complete restoration of the cliildren 6 t Jsfiiei to their own landL wjien the kingctopas of the world sliail become the EtegtJoms of the Lord and of lus Christ . Now , as their restoration from the Babylonian captivity was brought about by the of tn of
instrumentality a gteat tempoe instrumentality a great temporal prince , denominated in prophecy by the name of Michael ; so their future restoration from the present much greater and longer captivity , will be effected b y the instrumentality of some great and potent prince or princes predicted under the same name . " At
that time / ' says the prophecy , ver . 1 , 44 shall Michael stand up , the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people . " The period of the accomplishment of this prediction
being so remote , Michael is not denominated Darnel ' s prince , as in the former passage , nor the prince of the children of his people , biit only a pr ince that shall stand up for them :
that is , espouse their cause , and exert tis , power and influence on their behatf Vj , That this m fact will be the case , we | earn from the following ^ passages which predict the future restoration of t ^ ie Jews : Isaiah xlik . 22 , 23 : 44 Thus saith the Lord God , Behold , I Will lift
up my hand to the Gentiles , and set up my standard io tte people : and they shall bring thy sons in the ^ r arm s , and thy daughters shall be carried upon their shoulders ; and kings shall be thy nursing fathers , and their queens thy nursing * mpthers ; they shall bow down to thee with thdir fades toward
the earth , and lick lip the dttst 6 f thy feet . " See also lx . 3 , 10 , 11 . A writer in the Monthly Repository * saysj "At p . 216 , Vol . VI . of Theol . Repds ., I beg to correct a passage relating to the Prince Michael , who is there represented as the leader of the
or ^ reat pritjce childre n of Israel , to rest 6 re them to their country , " &c ^ , as foretold by Daniel . ( See x . 13—21 and xii . 1 . ) ft does not
necessarily follbw that this temporal prince Was to s ^ ritag from the ^ tem of Jesse , as 1 $ subpofea 5 ii the paper referred to ; I thni 6 r think iidw , he may be of Gentije t ^ ce . as Cyrus was , who was the great deliverer of the Jews * For May , 1822 , p . 269 .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1822, page 676, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2518/page/20/
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