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718. The eternal reign of the race of David, II Chron., by all the
prophecies, and with an oath. And it was not temporally fulfilled. Jer.
23:20.

719. We might perhaps think that, when the prophets foretold that the
sceptre should not depart from Judah until the eternal King came, they spoke
to flatter the people and that their prophecy was proved false by Herod. But
to show that this was not their meaning and that, on the contrary, they knew
well that this temporal kingdom should cease, they said that they would be
without a king and without a prince, and for a long time. Hosea 3:4.

720. Non habemus regem nisi Caesarem.[140] Therefore Jesus Christ was the
Messiah, since they had no longer any king but a stranger, and would have no
other.

721. We have no king but Caesar.

722. Daniel 2: "All thy soothsayers and wise men cannot shew unto thee the
secret which thou hast demanded. But there is a God in heaven who can do so,
and that hath revealed to thee in thy dream what shall be in the latter
days." (This dream must have caused him much misgiving.)

"And it is not by my own wisdom that I have knowledge of this secret, but by
the revelation of this same God, that hath revealed it to me, to make it
manifest in thy presence.

"Thy dream was then of this kind. Thou sawest a great image, high and
terrible, which stood before thee. His head was of gold, his breast and arms
of silver, his belly and his thighs of brass, his legs of iron, his feet
part of iron and part of clay. Thus thou sawest till that a stone was cut
out without hands, which smote the image upon his feet, that were of iron
and of clay, and brake them to pieces.

"Then was the iron, the clay, the brass, the silver, and the gold broken to
pieces together, and the wind carried them away; but this stone that smote