unto their fathers. For mine eyes are upon all their ways: they are not hid from my face:-and they shall know that my name is Jehovah." Jer. xvi. 14, 15, 17, 21.

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER I.

Reasons for examining the Hebrew Records of the Messiah.

CHAPTER II.

The Messiah announced by Malachi, as Adonai, even Melach, the Mes-

senger of the Covenant-His appearance to Jacob at Bethel; and to

Isaiah, Abraham, Moses, Gideon, and others, under various designa-

tions, as Adonai, Melach, a Man, Jehovah Zebaoth, the Holy One,

El-Shadai, &c.

CHAPTER III.

Reasons for rendering the formula "Melach Jehovah," the Messenger

(who is) Jehovah; and not the Angel, or an Angel of the Lord.

CHAPTER IV.

Visible Appearance of the Messenger Jehovah to Hagar.

CHAPTER V.

No visible Divine Appearances ever made except of the Messiah, the

Mediator in all the Relations of God to the World.

CHAPTER VI.

Appearances of the Messenger Jehovah to Abraham and to Jacob.

CHAPTER VII.

References to various Appearances of Jehovah and Elohim to the

Patriarchs.

CHAPTER VIII.

Of the Doctrines, Worship, and Faith of those earliest mentioned in

Scripture-Reference to the History of Moses, Noah, Joshua.

CHAPTER IX.

Narrative concerning Job.

CHAPTER X.

Further notice of Divine Manifestations to Abraham and Jacob-Mys-

teriousness attending the Divine Appearance-The visible Form

always like that of Man.

CHAPTER XI.

Of the official Person and Relations of the Messiah.

CHAPTER XII.

Local and visible Manifestations, Intercourse and Instructions, as cha-

racterizing the primeval and Mosaic Dispensations-Local Presence

of the Messenger Jehovah in the Tabernacle.

CHAPTER XIII.

Of the Chaldee Paraphrasts-Their method of designating the Per-

sonal WORD or Revealer-Occasion and Necessity of it.

CHAPTER XIV.

Citations from the Chaldee Paraphrases.

CHAPTER XV.

Reasons of the Failure of the modern Versions of the Scriptures to

exhibit clearly the Hebrew designations of the Messiah-The Maso-

retic Punctuation-Reference to the term Melach and the formula

Melach Jehovah.

CHAPTER XVI.

Continuation of the subject of the preceding Chapter-Combined influ-

ence of Rabbinical and figurative Interpretations-German method

of Hebrew study-Preposterous notion of the inadequacy of Lan-

guage as a Vehicle of Thought.

CHAPTER XVII.

Relation of the Antagonism between the Messiah and the great Adver-

sary to the local, personal, and visible Manifestations of the former-

Modes of Visibility on the part of the latter, through human agents

and various instrumentalities.

CHAPTER XVIII.

Illustration of the subject of the last Chapter, exhibiting the Antago-

nism as carried on by visible agencies, instrumentalities, and events,

in the plagues of Egypt and at the Red Sea.

Further Illustration of the Antagonism-Idolatry a Counterfeit Rival

System in opposition to the Messiah and the True Worship-Its Origin

and Nature-Satan the God of it-The Tower of Babel devoted to

his Worship-That Worship extended thence over the Earth at the

Dispersion.

CHAPTER XX.

The system of Idolatry founded on a perversion of the Doctrine of

Mediation-References to the Worshippers of Baal, Israelite and

Pagan.

CHAPTER XXI.

Idolatry an imposing and delusive Counterfeit of the Revealed System,

in respect to the leading features of its Ritual, and the prerogatives

ascribed to the Arch-deceiver-Reference to the Symbols of the

Apocalypse.

CHAPTER XXII.

On the question, How it has happened, since the origin of the Nicene

Creed, that the Old Testament has been understood to ascribe the

Creation, not to the Christ, but to the Father?