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... been written in 40, when Pollio was consul. This eclogue, which in the Middle Age was believed to be a prophecy of the Messiah's coming, cannot be satisfactorily explained as referring to Pollio's son Saloninus, or to the expected child ...

— The Student's Companion to Latin Authors • George Middleton

... College, he said, "Here I translated Pope's Messiah. Which do you think is the best line ...

— Life Of Johnson, Vol. 1 • Boswell

... This messenger proclaimed himself to be an angel of God, sent with the joyful tidings that the covenant which God had made with ancient Israel was about to be fulfilled; that the preparatory work for the second coming of Messiah was speedily to commence; that the time was at hand for the Gospel to be proclaimed in all its fulness and power to all nations, to the end that a peculiar people might be prepared for the millennial reign. He was further informed that he, Joseph, was to be the ...

— Something of Men I Have Known - With Some Papers of a General Nature, Political, Historical, and Retrospective • Adlai E. Stevenson

... individual Christian is part, is Christ. And as in the great Old Testament prophecy of the Servant of the Lord, the figure that rises before Isaiah's vision fluctuates between that which is clearly the collective Israel and that which is, as clearly, the personal Messiah; so the 'Christ' is not only the individual Redeemer who bears the body of the flesh literally here upon earth, but the whole of that redeemed Church, of which it is said, 'It is His body, the fullness of Him that filleth all ...

— Expositions of Holy Scripture: St. John Chaps. XV to XXI • Alexander Maclaren

... comes! the Messiah of royalty comes! Like a goodly leviathan rolled from the waves! Then receive him as best such an advent becomes, With a legion of cooks, and an ...

— Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 7 • Various

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