Such again is the sense which all popular minds receive and must receive from Heb, x.

25-31 .-- I am willing to change _teaches_ into _has always been understood to teach_, if my critics think anything is gained by it.] [Footnote 19: The four monarchies in chapters ii.

and vii, are, probably, the Babylonian, the Median, the Persian, the Macedonian.
Interpreters however blend the Medes and Persians into one, and then pretend that the Roman empire is _still in existence_.] [Footnote 20: The first apparent reference is by Micah (vi.

5) a contemporary of Hezekiah; which proves that an account contained in our Book of Numbers was already familiar.] [Footnote 21: I have had occasion to discuss most of the leading prophecies of the Old Testament in my "Hebrew Monarchy."] [Footnote 22: A critic is pleased to call this a mere _suspicion_ of my own; in so writing, people simply evade my argument.

I do not ask them to adopt my conviction; I merely communicate it as mine, and wish them to admit that it is _my duty_ to follow my own conviction.