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| Chapter LXXXI.—He endeavours to prove this opinion from Isaiah and the Apocalypse.
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Chapter LXXXI.—He endeavours to prove
this opinion from Isaiah and the Apocalypse.
“For Isaiah spake
thus concerning this space of a thousand years: ‘For there shall be
the new heaven and the new earth, and the former shall not be remembered,
or come into their heart; but they shall find joy and gladness in it,
which things I create. For, Behold, I make Jerusalem a rejoicing, and My
people a joy; and I shall rejoice over Jerusalem, and be glad over My
people. And the voice of weeping shall be no more heard in her, or the
voice of crying. And there shall be no more there a person of immature
years, or an old man who shall not fulfil his days.2265
For the young man shall be an hundred years old;2266
| 2266 Literally, “the son of an hundred
years.” | but the sinner who dies an hundred years
old,2267
| 2267 Literally,
“the son of an hundred years.” | he shall be
accursed. And they shall build houses, and shall themselves inhabit them;
and they shall plant vines, and shall themselves eat the produce of them,
and drink the wine. They shall not build, and others inhabit; they shall
not plant, and others eat. For according to the days of the tree of life
shall be the days of my people; the works of their toil shall
abound.2268
| 2268 Or, as in margin
of A. V., “they shall make the works of their toil continue
long,” so reading παλαιώσουσιν for
πλεονάσουσιν:
thus also LXX. | Mine elect shall not toil fruitlessly, or
beget children to be cursed; for they shall be a seed righteous and
blessed by the Lord, and their offspring with them. And it shall come to
pass, that before they call I will hear; while they are still speaking, I
shall say, What is it? Then shall the wolves and the lambs feed together,
and the lion shall eat straw like the ox; but the serpent [shall eat]
earth as bread. They shall not hurt or maltreat each other on the holy
mountain, saith the Lord.’2269
Now we have understood that the expression used among these words,
‘According to the days of the tree [of life2270
| 2270 These words are not found in the mss. | ] shall be the
days of my people; the works of their toil shall abound’ obscurely
predicts a thousand years. For as Adam was told that in the day he ate of
the tree he would die, we know that he did not
complete a
thousand years. We have perceived, moreover, that the expression,
‘The day of the Lord is as a thousand years,’2271
is
connected with this subject. And further, there was a certain man with
us, whose name was John, one of the apostles of Christ, who prophesied,
by a revelation that was made to him, that those who believed in our
Christ would dwell2272
| 2272
Literally, “make.” [A very noteworthy passage, as a primitive
exposition of Rev. xx. 4–5. See Kaye, chap.
v.] | a thousand years in Jerusalem; and that thereafter the
general, and, in short, the eternal resurrection and judgment of all men
would likewise take place. Just as our Lord also said, ‘They shall
neither marry nor be given in marriage, but shall be equal to the angels,
the children of the God of the resurrection.’2273
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