Letters to Benjamin

Submitted by saltysteve on Sat, 05/30/2009 - 07:44

Excerpts from a series of letters by Joseph Frey, to his brother, Benjamin, concerning the Messiah (First printed 1835)

Extract: The Lord, the God of our fathers Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the Angel of the Covenant, having preserved me in my journey, and brought me safely back to my family, I now, agreeably to my promise in the last letter, resume with pleasure our correspondence, in a second series of letters, on some of the most important and interesting subjects respecting the Messiah. . . That the Messiah was to rise from the dead on the third day, was indicted by example in many sundry instances: Isaac rescued from the jaws of death, on the third day from the time Abraham had the order to sacrifice his son, and from which time he was looked upon by him as a dead man; Joseph being taken from prison and promoted to the court of Pharaoh; David, after being hunted by Saul, raised to the throne of Israel; Jonah raised again the third day from the belly of the fish; the scapegoat let go into the wilderness, when the other taken with it was slain; and the living bird let loose after having been dipped in the blood of the bird that had been slain. All these fitly represent the resurrection of the Messiah, after his painful and ignominious death. Dr. Pierson considers the sheaf of the first fruits on the second day of the feast of unleavened bread to be also an example of the resurrection of the Messiah, who rose up that very day, and became the first fruits of them that sleep. (Lev. 23:10-12).

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