"Until Shiloh come, and unto him shall the gathering of the people be."

"Binding his foal unto the vine, and his ass's colt unto the choice vine." (v. 11.)

leave any building standing, except three towers. The rest of the city was razed even to the ground." (Josephus, Book vii.)

Caiaphas said unto the people,

"It is expedient

for us that one man should die for the people, and

that the whole nation perish not." "And this spake he, not of himself, but, being high Priest that year, he prophesied, that Jesus should die for that nation." "And not for that nation only-but that, also, he should gather together in one, the children of God that were scattered abroad." (John xi. 49-53.)

I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto me." (John xii. 32.)

"He shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other." (Matt. xxiv. 31.)

"I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman." (John xv. 1.)

"The disciples brought the ass and the colt, and they set him (the true vine) thereon." (Matt. xxi. 7.) Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion! Shout, O daughter of Jerusalem! Behold thy King cometh unto thee; he is just and having salvation; lowly and riding upon an ass, and upon a colt, the foal of an ass." "He shall speak peace unto the heathen; and his dominion shall be from sea even unto sea, and

"He washed his garments in wine, and his clothes in the blood of the grape. His eyes shall be red with wine."

"His eyes shall be red with wine and his teeth white with milk." (12.)

from the river, even to the ends of the earth." (Zech. ix. 9, 10.)

"Who is this that cometh from Edom, with dyed garments from Bozrah? this that is glorious in his apparel, travelling in the greatness of his strength? I that speak in righteousness, mighty to save."

"Wherefore art thou red in thine apparel, and thy garments like him that treadeth in the winefat?"

"I have trodden the wine-press alone." (Is. lxiii. 1—3.)

"Ho! every one that thirsteth."

"Come

buy wine and milk, without money, and without price." (Is. lv. 1.

"Desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby," "if so be ye have tasted that the Lord is gracious." (1 Pet. ii. 2—3.)

SECTION XIV.

Comment on Jacob's blessing on Judah.

We find every particular, in the figurative prophecy contained in the blessing of Jacob upon his fourth son Judah, either confirmed by the prophets, who lived many hundred years after, or realized by histo rical facts. The pre-eminence of Judah over the other tribes is remarkable throughout the whole of their history. During their wandering in the wilderness, on their march to the promised land, the camp of Judah was pitched "towards the rising sun," and when the tents were struck, they "set forth first." After the ten tribes had revolted, "the men of Israel fled before Judah, and God delivered them into their hand." The prophet Micah confirmed that which Jacob had declared-namely, that " their hand should be in the neck of their enemies." In their intestine wars, and even in their captivity, the ascendancy of the tribe of Judah was maintained.

Evil Merodach, king of Babylon, "spake kindly