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The Fundamentals t b u e r tr e a s y o a f l, th ap e p p r r e o h p e h n e s t i s on m , i a g n h d t b d e ea f t u h lfi t l o le o d k " p ( la M ce a , tt " . t 2 h 6 at :5 t 6 h ) e . S " c H ri a p d ye believed Moses," said our Lord, "ye would have believed a M n e n , o f u o n r ce h s e t w he ro t t r e ea o c f h M er e y " of (J J oh u n da 5 s : i 4 n 6) t . hes T e h w e o 4 r 1 d s s t : Ps " a H lm e p th r a e t eateth bread with Me hath lifted up his heel against Me;" and the defection of the son of perdition takes place, "that e th n e t a S n c d ri m pt a u l r i es may be fulfilled" (John 17:12). The persist gn ant opposition of His enemies fulfils that which is written: "They hated Me without a cause" (John 15 :25). Finally, in discoursing to the two disciples on the way to Emmaus, the Lord, "beginning at Moses and all the prophets, c e e x r p n o i u n n g d H ed im u s n e t l o f. th " e Am nd in H a e ll sa th id e u S n c t r o ip t t h u e re m s u: th T e h t e h s i e ng a s re co th n e words which I spake unto you, while I was yet with you, that all things must be fulfilled which were written in the c la e w rni o n f g MM o e s . es, T a h n en d i o n pe t n h e e d p H ro e ph t e h t e s i , r a u n n d de i r n sta th n e di P ng sal t m ha s t , t c h o e n y might understand the Scriptures, and said unto themu: "Thus it is written, and thus it behooved Christ to suffer and to rise from the dead the third day" (Luke 24u:44-46). It is not denied that in some instances the word "fulfil" is used in the New Testament merely as si gn ifying that some event or condition of things corresponds with or realizes something that is written in the Old Testamentu; as when the words in Isaiah, "By hearing ye shall hear and shall not understand," are said to be fulfilled in the blind obduracy of the Pharisees. Nor, again, is it denied that "fulfil" has the meaning of filling, or expanding, or completing. But clearly our Lord, in the passages here cited, employs the term in another acceptation. He means nothing less than this : that the Scriptures which He says were "fulfilled" were intended by the Spirit of God to have the very application which He makes of them; they were predictions in the sense ordinarily meant by that term. If the Messiah of the Old Testament
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