"Restoration of the Jews"
…again shall the East beare dominion, and the West be in subiection
[…] Where Israel, Iudah, Tsion, Ierusalem, etc. are named in this argument,
the Holy Ghost meaneth not the spirituall Israel, or Church of God collected
of the Gentiles, no nor of the Iewes and Gentiles both (for each of these
have their promises severally and apart) but Israel properly de-scended out
of Iacobs loynes [= loins, Lenden]. […]
The same iudement is to be made of their returning to their land and ancient
seates, the conquest of their foes, the fruitfulness of their soile, the glorious
Church they shall erect in the land it selfe of Iudah, their bearing rule
farre and neere. These and such like are not Allegories, setting forth in
terrene similitudes or deliverance through Christ (whereof those were types
and figures) but meant really and literally of the Iewes. It was not possible
to devise more express or evident tearmes, then [=than] the Spirit of purpose
vseth to cut off all such construction. Neither were Iosias or Cyrus more
plainely named hundred of yeares before they were borne, then these things
are plainely delivered for the confirming of that peoples faith. Wherefore
wee need not be afraid to averre and mainteyne, that one day they shall come
to Ierusalem againe, be Kings and chiefe Monarches of the earth, swaye and
governe all, for the glory of Christ that shall shine among them. And that
is it Lactantius [christlicher Autor aus dem 4. Jh.] faith, Lib. 7. Cap.
15. The Romane name (I will speake it, because it must one day be) shall
bee taken from the earth, and the Empire shall returne to Asia, and again
shall the East beare dominion, and the West be in subiection.
Henry Finch (1558–1625, engl. Rechtsgelehrter), The World's Resurrection
or the Calling of the Jewes. A Present to Judah and the Children of Israel
that Ioyned with Him, and to Ioseph (that valiant tribe of Ephraim) and all
the House of israel that Ioyned with Him, London: Edward Griffin for
William Bladen, 1621, zitiert in Culver 1995, S. 109.
Cowen, Jamie (Rabbi), The Untold Story. The Role of Christian Zionists in the Establishment of Modern-day Israel.
«The meaning of our text [Prophet Hesekiel] as opened up by the context
is most evidently, if words mean anything, first, that there shall be a political
restoration of the Jews to their own land and to their own nationality. And
then, secondly, there is in the text and in the context a most plain declaration
that there shall be a spiritual restoration - in fact a conversion - of the
tribes of Israel.» Rev. Charles H. Spurgeon (1834-92), baptistischer
Prediger in England, Predigt
vom 16.6.1864 über The Restoration and the Conversion of the Jews.
Besprechung von "Discourse on the Restoration of the Jews, Delivered
at the Tabernacle", N. Y., Oct. 28, and Dec. 2, -1844, by M. M. Noah. New
York, 1845, 8vo. pp. 55, in The Occident and American Jewish Advocate,
März 1845.
Vgl. Matthew Henry's einflussreichen calvinistischen Bibelkommentar Exposition
of the Old and New Testament, Chester, 1708-10, mit dem rekurrenten Thema
der Restoration of the Jews.