Nor does their possession of the country subsequent to it, at all correspond to that state of peace, and prosperity, which was promised to succeed this final return.
Figures of speech must, no doubt, be allowed for.

But if the whole of the Jewish polity was to terminate at the destruction of Jerusalem by Titus, (as is maintained by Christians,) while the world is still to continue, the magnificent promises made to Abraham, and his posterity, and to the nation, in general, afterwards, have never had any proper accomplishment of all.
Because with respect to external prosperity, which is contained in the promises, many nations have hitherto been more distinguished by God, than the Jews.

Hitherto the posterity of Ishmael has had a much happier lot than that of Isaac.

To say, as Christians do, that these prophecies have had a spiritual accomplishment in the spread of the Gospel, when there is nothing in the phraseology in which the promises are expressed, that could possibly suggest any such ideas, nay, when the promise itself in the most definite language expresses the contrary, is so arbitrary a construction as nothing can warrant.

By this mode of interpretation, any event may be said to be the fulfillment of any prophecy whatever.
Besides, it is perfectly evident, that these prophecies, whether they will be fulfilled, or not, cannot yet have been fulfilled.