Messianic Prophecies

AUTHOR'S PREFACE..

When, at the earnest solicitation of my friend Professor Curtiss, I consented that he should translate my lectures on the Messianic Prophecies, held in the Winter of 1879-1880, as a basis for his instruction, I was compelled to refer him to the notes of one of my students, since the course received its present form in the process of delivery. Hence I beg those, into whose hands these pages may fall, to remember that much bears the accidental impress of the moment and that the whole is only made public at the urgent request of a friend.

Leipzig, July 10, 1880.

FRANZ DELITZSCH.

TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE.

This translation has arisen from a desire to furnish my students with a good hand-book for the study of the Messianic Prophecies. During the few weeks, at command for translation and printing, my attention was directed rather to a careful reproduction of the thought than to rhetorical finish. While the last sheet was being prepared for the press it was suggested that it might be well to give this work a wider circulation than was at first contemplated, I trust therefore that critics will generously forgive any infelicities of style or inaccuracies of expression. It is hoped that students of the Bible may derive great profit from these lectures, which Professor Delitzsch, after much persuasion, has so kindly surrendered for the use of his many friends.

Leipzig, July 10, 1880.

SAMUEL IVES CURTISS.

CORRECTIONS.

The commencement of § 27, p. 55, is misleading because the word "period" is used instead of epoch. Prof. Delitzsch distinguishes four epochs in the fifth period of Israelitish history (975-588 B. C.):

(1) from the contemporaneous reigns of Rehoboam and Jeroboam to the contemporaneous reigns of Asa and Ahab (975—915 B. C.);

(2) from the contemporaneous reigns of Jehoshaphat and Ahab to those of Amaziah and Jeroboam II (914-811 B. C.);

(3) from the contemporaneous reigns of Uzziah and Jeroboam II to the fall of the kingdom of Israel (810-722 B. C.);

(4) from the fall of the kingdom of Israel to that of Judah (721—588 B. C.). The first two sentences in § 27 should accordingly read: The first epoch was formed by the division of the kingdom. At the very beginning of the second epoch etc.

Page 3, fifteenth line from below, read Micah instead of Micha;

21, ninth line from below, read Solomon instead of Salomon;
59, seventh line from the top, read Luke instead of Luc.

It is to be regretted that some of the Hebrew points have been broken off in printing the following words: 2, seventh line from below; 7, last line ; 12 (13), last line ; 51, last line, § 23, verb ; 53, fourth line 2; 58, twelfth line from the top, 3; 65, thirteenth line

from the top, from below,

; 76. last line, § 45,