David N. Lord: Christ's Prophecy (Matt. xxiv) of the Destruction of Jerusalem, and of His Second Coming (1858) "the one event is typical of the other; his coming to destroy Jerusalem in representation, faint, indeed, but real, of his glorious and awful coming to take vengeance upon the finally impenitent ; and that language, therefore, is used of it which seems appropriately to belong to the final judgment." — Pp. 318, 319.
"The assumption on which Dr. Owen here proceeds is surely as complete a "jargon of hermeneutics " as that of Mr. Alford. For he divests the language of the Saviour altogether of a predictive office, and assigns that function to the events which his words denote ; making the coming of the Son of man in the clouds of heaven, a mere type or symbol of the acts of his providence by which Jerusalem was destroyed ; and then assigns to those acts of providence by which that city was overthrown, the office of representing his real personal coming at the last judgment, to take vengeance upon the finally impenitent. CAN A WORSE ERROR in " hermeneutics" be conceived than this, which thus wrests from the language of prophecy all its predictive meaning, and transfers the office of prediction to the events which it signifies, as types and symbols of a different class of events ; and then makes these last events types and symbols of the other class that are literally denoted by the language of the prediction, and by which they are themselves held to be represented? Or is there any other principle that makes the interpretation of the Sacred Word more entirely the work of a wild and lawless fancy? (p 414)
"Christ's coming in the clouds in visible glory has no adaptation to symbolize the march of the Roman armies into Judea to overthrow Jerusalem. The advance of those armies to Jerusalem and destruction of the city and temple, have no adaptation to symbolize the personal coming of Christ in the clouds to take possession of the earth, destroy his incorrigible enemies, raise his saints from the grave, reward his people, and redeem the earth from the thralldom of sin and death. No agents can be more unlike each other, than Christ and the debased, lawless, and idolatrous romans; no event can present a greater contrast, than their invading Judea to avenge the revolt of the Jews from their cruel rule, and Christ's coming in the clouds to assume the scepter of this world, of which he is the creator and Saviour, and redeem it from the dominion and curse of sin."
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