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86 THE FIRST AND THE SECOND MAN.taken by our Lord to indicate His having come.The eternal duration of this kingdom may be saidto be the substance of all prophecy, and it wasprecisely in the interpretation of a vision describingunder the image of a great statue the fourworld-kingdoms, that is, the whole structure, course,and issue of the heathenism which we have been"contemplating, that Daniel contrasts these kingdomswith another. " In the days of these kingsshall the God of heaven set up a kingdom whichshall never be destroyed ; and the kingdom shallnot be delivered to another people, but it shallbreak in pieces and consume all these kingdoms,and shall stand itself for ever." As King in thiskingdom through all the generations of men fromthe moment that He stood in Pilate's hall until Hecomes to judge the world, our Lord bears witnessto the truth, His witness and His royalty beingcontemporaneous and conterminous to each other.2. This perpetual possession and announcementof the truth is indicated by another imagewhich is of constant recurrence,19 wherein Christis the Inhabitant, His people the Inhabited, whileboth are the House or Temple, for that in whichGod dwells is at once His House and Temple.Thus Moses is said to have been "faithful in allhis house as a servant, but Christ as a Son overHis own house, whose house are we." Here theHeb. iii. 1-6; Ephes. ii. 19-22; 1 Cor. iii. 9,10-15; 2 Cor. vi. 16;1 Peter ii. 4, 5.