On the contrary, the admission that by a writer of the Maccabaic aera the Roman power could scarcely have been overlooked, greatly strengthens this second argument, as naturally suggesting expectations of change, and wave-like succession of empires, rather than the idea of a last.

In the age of Augustus this might possibly have occurred to a profound thinker; but the age of Antiochus was too late to permit the Roman power to escape notice; and not late enough to suggest its exclusive establishment so as to leave no source of succession.
[Footnote 1: Discourses on Prophecy, in which are considered its structure, use and inspiration, being the substance of twelve Sermons preached in the Chapel of Lincoln's Inn in the Lecture founded by the Right Rev.William Warburton, Bishop of Gloucester.

By John Davison, B.D.2nd edit.

London, 1825.] * * * * * NOTES ON IRVING'S BEN-EZRA.

[1] 1827.
Christ the WORD.
| The Scriptures--The Spirit--The Church.
| The Preacher.
Such seemeth to me to be the scheme of the Faith in Christ.