Chapter X. The Gospel Teaching Of The Second : p. 190 CHAPTER X. THE GOSPEL TEACHING OF THE SECOND ADVENT:-CONTRAST WITH ITS ANTECEDENTS. HAVING now briefly followed out the eschatological teaching of the Old Testament, the Apocalyptic literature, and the Gospels, and having illustrated each by quotations, we shall in the present chapter...
Chapter Vi. Some Further Eschatological Elements : p. 105 CHAPTER VI. SOME FURTHER ESCHATOLOGICAL ELEMENTS IN THE APOCALYPTIC LITERATURE. IN chap. iii. we referred briefly to some points of subsidiary importance belonging to the Eschatological Drama. The first of these, namely "Theophanies", was mentioned because the details of the later...
Chapter 1. The Antecedents Of The Gospel : p. 1 THE DOCTRINE OF THE LAST THINGS CHAPTER I. THE ANTECEDENTS OF THE GOSPEL TEACHING: INTRODUCTORY. THE Christian Religion has its roots in, and has grown out of, the Jewish Religion. This is a statement of fact which nobody would be prepared to deny. The Old Testament was written by Jews...
Chapter Ii. The Antecedents Of The Gospel : p. 12 CHAPTER II. THE ANTECEDENTS OF THE GOSPEL TEACHING: THE OLD TESTAMENT. IN the prophetical writings of the Old Testament we frequently come across such phrases as "The Day of the Lord, Those days, That day, The last days," etc., and around such expressions 1 "there centre certain conceptions...
Prefatory Note : p. ix PREFATORY NOTE. FOR a right understanding of what the Gospels teach concerning the "last things" it is indispensable that the antecedents upon which that teaching was, in the first instance, based should be studied. Eschatology, like so many other things, went through a process...
Chapter Viii. The Coming Of The Messiah : p. 147 CHAPTER VIII. THE COMING OF THE MESSIAH, THE SON OF MAN. WE have dealt hitherto almost exclusively with pre-Christian teaching; but we proceed now a step further, and in examining the subject of the Advent of the "Son of Man," we shall, while starting from the Old Testament and Apocalyptic...
Chapter Iii. The Antecedents Of The Gospel : p. 44 CHAPTER III. THE ANTECEDENTS OF THE GOSPEL TEACHING: SOME FURTHER ELEMENTS IN THE OLD TESTAMENT. BESIDES the four main elements of Old Testament Eschatology dealt with in the preceding chapter, there are some others directly connected with the subject, but not of the same importance; it will...
Title Page : p. v THE DOCTRINE OF THE LAST THINGS; JEWISH AND CHRISTIAN. BY THE REV. W. O. E. OESTERLEY, D.D. JESUS COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE. LONDON JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET [1908] NOTICE OF ATTRIBUTION Scanned , February 2005. John Bruno Hare, redactor. This text is in the public domain in the United States...
Untitled : THE DOCTRINE OF THE LAST THINGS BY W.O.E. OESTERLEY [1908] This is an analysis of Judeo-Christian eschatology (doctrine about the end of the world), by a distinguished 19th century Biblical scholar. Rev. Oesterley delves into the Jewish roots of the Christian concept of the end of the world. He...
Chapter Iv. The Antecedents Of The Gospel : p. 65 CHAPTER IV. THE ANTECEDENTS OF THE GOSPEL TEACHING. THE APOCALYPTIC LITERATURE: INTRODUCTORY. OLD Testament Eschatology forms the foundation upon which the Apocalyptic writers based their speculations, in the first instance; and, as will be seen, these writers repeat and develop...
Chapter Vii. Eschatological Teaching In Rabbinical : p. 128 CHAPTER VII. ESCHATOLOGICAL TEACHING IN RABBINICAL LITERATURE. IT may not be altogether without interest, as illustrating the growth of some of the ideas referred to in the preceding chapters, to take a brief glance at some of the eschatological ideas contained in the later Jewish...
Chapter V. The Antecedents Of The Gospel : p. 77 CHAPTER V. THE ANTECEDENTS OF THE GOSPEL TEACHING: THE APOCALYPTIC LITERATURE. WE must now show by quotations from the Apocalyptic literature that the eschatological teaching of the Old Testament prophets was continued, being both developed and elaborated during the two centuries immediately...
Chapter Xi. The Christian Adaptation Of Jewish : p. 204 CHAPTER XI. THE CHRISTIAN ADAPTATION OF JEWISH TEACHING. ALTHOUGH, as we have seen in the preceding chapter, there are some important points of contrast between the Gospel teaching and that of its antecedents, nevertheless, as has already been pointed out, the former is in many respects...
Chapter Ix. The Gospel Teaching Of The Second : p. 169 CHAPTER IX. THE GOSPEL TEACHING OF THE SECOND ADVENT. THE Gospel teaching of the Second Advent, as far as the four main points already referred to are concerned, is so familiar that on reading the passages given above from the Old Testament and the Apocalyptic literature which deal with...