Menasseh ben Israel's Mission to Oliver Cromwell: Being a reprint of the pamphlets published by Menasseh ben Israel to promote the re-admission of the Jews to England, 1649-1656Manasseh ben Israel
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Menasseh ben Israel's Mission to Oliver Cromwell: Being a reprint of the pamphlets published by Menasseh ben Israel to promote the re-admission of the Jews to England, 1649-1656
Manasseh ben Israel
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shall make gardens, and eate the fruit of them. And they shall be no
more pulled up out of their Land, which I have given them, saith the
Lord thy God._ So also _Mica_. in cha. 2.12. _I will surely assemble_, O
Jacob, _all of thee, I will gather the remnant of_ Israel, _I will also
place him as the flock in the sheep-fold_. For that in the captivity of
_Babilon_ all were not gathered together. The Prophet _Zechariah_ in
chap. 8.7. and in chap. 10.6. and all the rest of the Prophets do
witnesse the same thing.
_SECT._ 26.
But which way that redemption shall be, no man can tell; but only so
farre as we may gather out of the Prophets. That at that time the ten
Tribes shall come to _Jerusalem_ under the leading of a Prince, whom
some Rabbins in the _Talmud_, and in some places of the Chaldy
Paraphrase, doe call _Messiah_ the Son of _Joseph_; and elsewhere
_Messiah_ the Son of _Ephraim_; who being slaine in the last War of
_Gog_ and _Magog_, shall shew himselfe to be _Messiah_ the sonne of
_David_, who shall be, as _Ezekiel_, and _Hosea_ say, _The everlasting
Prince of all the twelve Tribes_. Our wise men doe, in many places,
especially in the _Babilonian_ Talmud, _in tract. suca_: _c._ 5. make
mention of that _Messiah_ the sonne of _Ephraim_; where they say, that
he shall dye in the last war of _Gog_, and _Magog_; and they so expound
that of _Zach._ 12.10. _And they shall looke upon me whom they have
pierced, and they shall mourne for him, as one mourneth for his only
sonne._ They adde also, that the foure Captaines, of whom the same
Prophet speakes in chap. 11. are, _Messiah_ the son of _David_,
_Messiah_ the son of _Joseph_, the Prophet _Elias_, and the high Priest;
which foure are those dignities, which shall shew their power in that
blessed age. Observe, that sometime they call _Messiah_ the son of
_Ephraim_, sometime of _Joseph_; for he shall come out of the Tribe of
_Ephraim_, and shall be Captaine of all the ten Tribes, who gave their
name to _Ephraim_, because that their first King _Jeroboam_ was of that
Tribe. Not without cause doe they call him the son of _Joseph_, for he
was the true type of the house of _Israel_, in his imprisonment, and
future happinesse. Adde to this, that he was so long hid from his
brethren, that they did not know him: as in like manner the ten Tribes
are at this day, who are led captive, but hereafter shall come to the
top of felicity, in the same manner as _Joseph_ did. That _Messiah_ of
_Joseph_ shall dye in the battel of _Gog_, and _Magog_, and afterward
shall rise againe, that he may enjoy the dignity, not of a Kingly
Scepter, but the office only of a Vice-roy, as _Joseph_ in _Ægypt_; for
that the Empire of the house of _Israel_ fell under the reigne of
_Hosea_ the son of _Elah_; as the Prophet _Amos_ saith in chap. 5.2.
Therefore the Kingdome of the ten Tribes shall not be restored, as
_Ezekiel_ saith in Chap. 37. under the reigne of _Messiah_ the son of
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