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372 VISIONS AND PROPHECIES OF ZECHARIAH
all Scripture. No, no ; just as the scattering of Israel was literal, so the gathering also will be literal ; and it is not in the absorption of a remnant of the Jewish people into the Church, and in the gradual spread of " Christianity " that " these prophecies find a most glorious and real fulfilment," but in a yet future nationally restored and converted Israel, which shall yet be the centre of the Kingdom of God and of His Christ, and the channel of blessing to all the nations of the earth.
