Here were Jews from Persia, and its confines ;
Jews of Syria beyond the tluphrates and CbaU
dea ; who, on their return to their own coun-
tries, could not fail to spread the news of such
extraordinary facts which thenaselves had heard
and seen in Jerusalem.,

So si.^nal an event having taken place, in the
which the foundation of the whole Christian
church seems to have been laid, in the presence
of men of all nations, professing the Jewish
faith, and of whom it is' expressly recorded,
" devout men out of every nation under hea-
ven:" such a host of witnesses to the miracu-
lous and divine inspiration of the Apostles,
could not fail to constitute agraad preparation
for the Gospel, commanded to be published
among all nations. Such circumstances cbuld
;iot fail to be the subject of scripture prophecy,
and the Apostle'quotes the volume of prophecy
on the occasion. Isaiah seems to have been
fiavoured with> a most luminous revelation re^
specting it, in the close of his Prophecy, ch.
