his blood mystically, John vi. 27, 53.  When his disciples wanted bread, he bad them beware of the leven of the Pharisees, Matth. xvi. 6.  Being desired to eat, he answered that he had other meat, John iv. 31.  In the great day of the feast of Tabernacles, when the Jews, as their custom was, brought a great quantity of waters from the river Shiloah into the Temple, Christ stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst let him come unto me and drink.  He that believeth in me, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water, John vii. 37.  The next day, in allusion to the servants who by reason of the sabbatical year were newly set free, he said, If ye continue in my word, the truth shall make you free.  Which the Jews understanding literally with respect to the present manumission of servants, answered, We be Abraham_’s seed, and were never in bondage to any man:  how sayeth thou, ye shall be made free?_ John viii.  They assert their freedom by a double argument:  first, because they were the seed of Abraham, and therefore newly made free, had they been ever in bondage; and then, because they never were in bondage.  In the last Passover, when Herod led his army thro’ Judea against Aretas King of Arabia, because Aretas was aggressor and the stronger in military forces, as appeared by the event; Christ alluding to that state of things, composed the parable of a weaker King leading his army against a stronger who made war upon him, Luke xiv. 31.  And I doubt not but divers other parables were formed upon other occasions, the history of which we have not.

[2] Joseph.  Antiq. lib. 3. c. 10.

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CHAP.  XII.

Of the Prophecy of the Scripture of Truth.

The kingdoms represented by the second and third Beasts, or the Bear and Leopard, are again described by Daniel in his last Prophecy written in the third year of Cyrus over Babylon, the year in which he conquered Persia.  For this Prophecy is a commentary upon the Vision of the Ram and He-Goat.

Behold, saith [1] he, there shall stand up yet three kings in Persia__, [Cyrus, Cambyses, and Darius Hystaspes] and the fourth [Xerxes] shall be far richer than they all:  and by his strength thro’ his riches he shall stir up all against the realm of Grecia_.  And a mighty king_ [Alexander the great] shall stand up, that shall rule with great dominion, and do according to his will.  And when he shall stand up, his kingdom shall be broken, and shall be divided towards the four winds of heaven; and not to his posterity [but after their death,] nor according to his dominion which he ruled:  for his kingdom shall be pluckt up, even for others besides those. Alexander the great having