Ib.
c. 17. s. 8.
The Old and New Testament, which by a prosopopœia are here called the two witnesses.
Where is the probability of this so long before the existence of the collection since called the New Testament?
Ib.
vi. c. l. s. 2.
We may draw from this passage (1
Thess
. iv. 16, 17.) the strongest support of the fact of the ascension of Christ, or at least of St. Paul's (and of course of the first generation of Christians') belief of it. For had they not believed his ascent, whence could they have derived the universal expectation of his descent, — his bodily, personal descent? The only scruple is, that all these circumstances were parts of the Jewish
cabala