An Amicable Controversy With A Jewish Rabbi, On The Messiah’s Coming: Unfolding New Views on Prophecy And The Nature of the Millenium: With an Entirely New Exposition of Zechariah, On The Messiah’s Kingdom By J. R. Park, M.D. &c. London: Smith, Elder, And Co. 65, Cornhill 1832 CONTENTS Preface. Introduction. Zechariah On The Messiah’s Kingdom. Interpretation: Chapter IX. Notes To Chapter IX. Hebrew Punctuation. The Rabbi’s Exposition And Reply, Chapter IX. Zechariah, Chapter IX. Remarks On The Rabbi’s Exposition. Zechariah On The Messiah’s Kingdom. Interpretation: Chapter X. Notes To Chapter IX. The Rabbi’s Reply, And The Author’s Remarks Upon It. Chapter X. Zechariah On The Messiah’s Kingdom. Interpretation: Chapter XI. Notes To Chapter XI. The Rabbi’s Translation. Chapter XI. The Rabbi’s Exposition. Chapter XI. Zechariah On The Messiah’s Kingdom. Interpretation: Chapter XII. Notes To Chapter XII. The Rabbi’s Exposition, And The Author’s Remarks. Chapter XII. Zechariah On The Messiah’s Kingdom. Interpretation: Chapter XIII. Notes To Chapter XIII. Zechariah On The Messiah’s Kingdom. Interpretation: Chapter XIV. Notes To Chapter XIV. The Millenium. PREFACE. What! another Commentary on Zechariah! the reader is ready to exclaim. Have we not a Lowth and a Blayney? What can learning, talent, or research effect, that has not been effected already? In a word, I answer—nothing. But, on the other hand, I ask, what have they effected? With the exception of particular passages, on which light has been thrown, the general scope of the prophecy remains as obscure as ever. Sufficient proof of this appears in the want of consistency in the plan of interpretation, which in one verse looks to future events, and in another to events long past, for explanation; in one part supposes the prophet to offer a connected series of consecutive predictions; in the next supposes him to be carried away by a transport into a digression bordering upon incoherency; varying, moreover, continually in the principle of exposition, which is literal or figurative, political or spiritual by turns. Surely this is not legitimate exposition, but rather bespeaks some latent error, some radical defect in the plan, or principle of investigation.