On the Principle of Interpretation, with respect to the Sect. XVIII. The Lord; the King; infinitely Holy; Jeho- PRINCIPAL NOTES.-Criticism of the Passage; p. 362.— Kennicott's Illustrations; p. 364.-Observations of Döderlein, Dathe, and Rosenmüller; p. 366. Sect. xx. Jehovah, the Object of Confidence and of Rever- 379 Y Sect. xxvI. Jehovah our Righteousness: Jeremiah xxiii. 5, 6. 404 PRINCIPAL NOTE.-Criticism of the Passage; p. 410. Sect. XXVII. Son of Man, united with the Eternal God, and Sect. XXIX. The Desire of Nations, and the Glory of the Sect. XXXII. Shepherd; One nearest to Jehovah; Zech. Sect. XXXIV. On the Person denominated in the Old Testa- PRINCIPAL NOTES.-Michaelis and Von Meyer on some of Sect. III. On the Writings of the Alexandrian Jews, com- monly called the Apocrypha; and on the Book of Enoch. 530 PRINCIPAL NOTES.-On Dr. Jones's Hypothesis concern- ing Philo and Josephus; p. 573.-On a Grammatical Notion of Philo; p. 577.-Opinions on the Logos of THE SCRIPTURE TESTIMONY TO THE MESSIAH.. INTRODUCTION. The duty of acquiring a correct knowledge of revealed truth.-The doctrine of a SAVIOUR the primary truth of revelation.-Importance of the question concerning his Person.-Design of this work. To a serious inquirer, whose mind is attentive to evidence and open to reasonable conviction, the proofs of the divine origin of Christianity must appear to involve the notion of its infinite importance. Information given by the Author of all truth and wisdom, could not but wear the characters of his supreme excellence, and would not have been made but for the most solid reason, and in the contemplation of final purposes worthy of his own perfection. It cannot be a matter of indifference, with respect to their accountableness and their moral state, whether the rational creatures of God accept or reject the revelation which he has given; surrounded as it is with a copiousness and variety of evidence, which grows stronger with age and brighter |