Instances of the double sense of prophecy may be found in _Is. 7:14-16_; _9:6, 7—_“a virgin shall conceive and bear a son, ... unto us a son is given”—compared with _Mat. 1:22, 23_, where the prophecy is applied to Christ (see Meyer, _in loco_); _Hos. 11:1—_“I ... called my son out of Egypt”—referring originally to the calling of the nation out of Egypt—is in _Mat. 2:15_ referred to Christ, who embodied and consummated the mission of Israel; _Psalm 118:22, 23—_“The stone which the builders rejected is become the head of the corner”—which primarily referred to the Jewish nation, conquered, carried away, and flung aside as of no use, but divinely destined to a future of importance and grandeur, is in _Mat. 21:42_ referred by Jesus to himself, as the true embodiment of Israel. William Arnold Stevens, on The Man of Sin, in Bap. Quar. Rev., July, 1889:328-360—As in _Daniel 11:36_, the great enemy of the faith, who “shall exalt himself, and magnify himself above every god,” is the Syrian King, Antiochus Epiphanes, so “the man of lawlessness” described by Paul in _2 Thess. 2:3_ is the corrupt and impious Judaism of the apostolic age. This had its seat in the temple of God, but was doomed to destruction when the Lord should come at the fall of Jerusalem. But even this second fulfilment of the prophecy does not preclude a future and final fulfilment. Broadus on Mat., page 480—In _Isaiah 41:8_ to _chapter 53_, the predictions with regard to “the servant of Jehovah” make a gradual transition from Israel to the Messiah, the former alone being seen in _41:8_, the Messiah also appearing in _42:1 __sq._, and Israel quite sinking out of sight in _chapter 53_.