Dr. Hales has also given, at p. 1378, the following striking description from Plato, of the sufferings of the JUST ONE, and of the reception he should meet with from a heedless and ungrateful world. “He shall be stripped of every possession, except his _virtue_; stigmatized as _wicked_, at a time when he exhibits the strongest proofs of _goodness_; endowed with _patience_ to resist every _temptation_, and _reverse of fortune_, but inflexibly maintaining _his integrity_; not _ostentatious_ of his good qualities, but desiring to be _good_ rather than to _seem so_. In fine the recompense which the JUST ONE so disposed (οὑτω διακειμενος ὁ δικαιος), as I said, shall receive from the world is this; he shall be _scourged, tortured, bound, deprived of his eyes_, (μαστιγωσεται, στρεβλωσεται, δεδησεται, εκκαυθησεται τω οφθαλμω), and at length, having suffered all sorts of evils, _he shall be crucified_ (ανασχιν δυλευθησεται); [Works] vol. ii. p. 361, 362, Edit. _Serrani_.” He adds, “Plato who travelled into _Egypt_, unquestionably collected this singular _character_ and _sufferings_, of the JUST ONE, from the Hebrew Scriptures, of the _Psalms_, _Isaiah_, _Daniel_, and _Zechariah_, with the last of whom, he was nearly contemporary.” As the time, the long-expected, and eagerly-wished for time, drew nigh, when the Messiah was to appear, and as (the συντελεία τῶν αἰώνων) the _consummation of the ages_ hastened on, we find that the expectations of the Heathen for this Divine Instructor, this mighty King and Saviour, increased in magnitude and intensity,—a certain proof that the arrival of the _Seventh_, or the return of the _Golden age_, was the subject of their calculation, as well as the theme of their song. On this subject we need only refer to the works of Virgil, who flourished B.C. 40, in the reign of Augustus Cæsar, and particularly to the celebrated _Eclogue_ entitled “_Pollio_,” in which he gives a condensed summary of the prophetic anticipations of all preceding poets and philosophers from the days of Hesiod to his own. To those who may not have viewed the _fourth_ Eclogue in this light, the following extract of a poem so well known, may not be unacceptable:—