From these returns, which, it may be assumed, are neither much in excess nor much short of the actual amount, the total number of professing Jews at the present time appears to be somewhat less than seven millions—the very number which, so far as it is possible to determine, was that of the Jewish people when the Lord became incarnate upon earth. Can any man realize this astonishing fact, and yet doubt the living miracle which the history of the Jews presents?
‘How many generations of mankind
Have risen and fallen asleep,
Yet it remains the same!’
FOOTNOTES:
[230] 2 Sam. xxiv. 9.
[231] 1 Chron. xxi. 5.
[232] Adam Clarke.
[233] 1 Kings xii. 21.
[234] 2 Chron. xiii. 3.
[235] Joseph., Ant. xi. 3, § 10.
[236] Ezra ii. 64; Nehem. vii. 66.