importance to review briefly what may be called the history of the Christian argument from prophecy, and to state its strict dialectic form. We cannot do better than open the historic outline of the prophetic argument with the words of Jesus addressed to his enemies: “Search the scriptures, for you think in them to have life everlasting: and the same are they that give testimony of me” (Jo. 5:39). On another occasion Jesus again appealed to the prophets: “It is written in the prophets: and they shall