...the end of your faith, the salvation of your souls. Of which salvation, tiie prophets have inquired and searched diligently, who prophesied of the grace...reported unto you by them that have preached the gospel." The prophets were those who revealed the mind and will of God to the church of old ; but the tilings...

...prophets were sometimes placed. In the former of these passages, the Apostle speaks of the prophets as "searching what, or what manner of time the Spirit...they did minister the things, which are now reported uuto you." It is clear, then, that prophets under the guidance of the 1 Spirit sometimes wrote statements...

...humiliation consisted in his being born, and that in a low condition11, made under the law e, undergoing the they did minister the things which are now reported...heaven ; which things the angels desire to look into. Ji/hn xv. 15. Henceforth \ call you not servants ; for the servant knoweth not what his lord iloeth:...

...the Spirit of Christ which was in them did signify, when it testified before hand the sufferings of Christ, and the glory that should follow. Unto whom...gospel unto you, with the Holy Ghost sent down from heaven." By this it appears, that the prophets did not understand those things, which they wrote under...

...according to his own will." And St. Peter 1 Epist. i. 12. " Of which salvation the prophets have inquired unto whom it was revealed, that not unto themselves,...gospel unto you, with the Holy Ghost sent down from heaven." That is, *' justified by the Spirit." It follows: " seen of angels:'' which also may be well...

...the Spirit of Christ which was in them did signify, when it testified beforehand of the sufferings of Christ, and the glory that should follow. Unto whom...reported unto you by them that have preached the gospel oii, with the Hoty Ghost sent down from heaven f which things the angels desire to look into. They...

...end of your faith, even (lie salvation of your souls : of which salvation the Prophets have inquired and searched diligently, who prophesied of the grace...heaven ; which things the Angels desire to look into." — Here, then, we see the main objects of the angelic study. In general, they desire to look into...

...end of your faith, even the salvation of your souls. Of which salvation the prophet* have inquired and searched diligently, who prophesied of the grace...heaven ; which things the angels desire to look into. Matt. x. 6. But go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel. Rom. xi. 7—12. What then ? Israel...

...signify, when he testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ, and the glory th at should follow. 12. Unto whom it was revealed, that not unto themselves,...heaven; which things the angels desire to look into. IT is the ignorance, or at least the ^consideration of divine things, that makes earthly things, whether...

...salvation made known by the Gospel, 1. Pet. i. 10 — 12. ' Of which salvation the prophets have inquired and searched diligently, who prophesied of the grace...heaven, which things the angels desire to look into.' The Prophets of old did inquire and search, but did not so clearly Understand the Gospel as now it...