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"Holy, holy, holy, Lord God of Sabaoth," or again in the two cherubim, over the ark of the Covenant, whose wings met midway and who gazed ever one upon the other. But Christ's prophecies all concern Himself, He is the beginning and the end — the A and the Z — the central figure of all prophecy. Therefore I say, Christ, being a true Prophet, must have had in Him the Spirit of God; and being the subject of His own prophecy He must have been God Himself. Now a true prophecy is one that is justified by the event, and that Christ was a true Prophet was never more clearly proven than in the things He foretold regarding the city of Jerusalem. "Thine enemies shall come upon thee," He says, " and they shall cast a trench about thee and compass thee round, and straighten thee on every side and beat thee flat to the ground and thy children who are in thee; and they shall not leave in thee a stone upon a stone, because thou hast not known the time of thy visitation." Forty years after Christ's crucifixion that prophecy was fulfilled to the letter, as we learn from the non-Christian historians, Josephus and Egisippus. They tell us that thirty-six years after Christ's death there began a series of prodigies in the city, such as men had never seen before. Ghostly armies were seen to do battle in the air over the city; a blinding light frequently in an instant turned the darkest night into the brightest day; earthquakes shook the walls and flung open the gates of the city; and for four years, night and day, a man, a stranger to all, roamed the city streets crying: " Woe, woe to