David:  “I will be to him a Father, and he shall be to me a Son.” 2 Sam. 7:14.  The promise undeniably had immediate respect to Solomon; not to Solomon, however, in his simple personality, but to Solomon as the first after David of a line of kings that should end in Christ, in whom alone it has its true fulfilment.  God took Solomon, and in him the whole line of kings on David’s throne, into the relation of sonship, and thus of heirship.  Rom. 8:17; Gal. 4:7.  To Solomon, as God’s son, the kingdom was confirmed for ever through Christ; and Solomon’s lower sonship, moreover, adumbrated the higher sonship of the last and greatest of his sons, to whom the promise was:  “He shall be great, and shall be called the Son of the Highest; and the Lord God shall give unto him the throne of his father David:  and he shall reign over the house of Jacob for ever; and of his kingdom there shall be no end.”  Luke 1:32, 33.

To draw the exact line of separation between the two above named classes of citations is difficult, and in some cases perhaps impossible.  Nor is it necessary, since the essential truth is, that all these prophecies find their accomplishment in Christ; those of the former class directly, those of the latter through types of divine appointment.

The exegesis of the New Testament quotations presents many difficult questions, relating partly to the true rendering of the original words, partly to the deviations of the Septuagint from the Hebrew, and the citations from both the Septuagint and the Hebrew; partly to the original application of the passages cited and the use made of them in the New Testament.  For the details the student must be referred to the commentators.  All that has been here attempted is a statement of the general principles that must govern us in interpreting the quotations from the Old Testament which are found in the New.

INDEX OF SUBJECTS.

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N.B.  THE FIGURES REFER TO THE PAGES.

A.

Abrahamic covenant,
  the ground work of the Pentateuch, 225;
  of the gospel, 116, seq.

Adam, his apostasy the key to the plan of redemption, 115.

Accentuation, Hebrew system of, 265.

Acknowledged epistles, 91, seq.

Accommodation, principle of, 635.

Acts of the Apostles,
  a natural sequel to the Gospels, 87;
  external testimonies to the book, 88;
  internal evidences, 89;
  its credibility, 90;
  coincidences with the Pauline epistles, 90;
  its plan and divisions, 440;
  its offices, 442, seq.

Ahasuerus, the Xerxes of history, 261.

Alamoth, 288.

Alexander the Great, his visit to Jerusalem, 263, 325.

Alexandria, the Septuagint version made here, 199.

Alexandrine Jews, their use of the Greek language, 369.