which he was crucified and buried, and was so identified I owu laud." The resunectiou, according to Paul. is "the
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hope of Israel." But if the resurrected and glorified Israel are to have the laud and dwell there forever, the Jews in flesh and blood, as a nation, cannot have it forever. All the promises, however, of a future return, promise an everlasting possession of the land. But mortal Jews can- not possess it forever— glorified and immortal ones can. Therefore they are the heirs of promise.
13. That the coming of the Lord is at the door for the following reasons, viz. : First, the four great empires are to be succeeded by the kingdom of God ; and it is very manifest that the last — the Komau government — has jiassed its predicted divisions, and must soon end. J^ec- ond, the waning of the Ottoman or Mohammedan power is another index pointing to the speedy coming of the kingdom of Christ. Third, the universal movements and agitrations, tlu' famines, pestilences, and earthquakes, the wars and rumors uf wars, together with the signs in the sun, moon, and stars, etc., are conclusive evidence of his speedy approach. Fourth, the Gospel, which was to be preached in all the world, for a witness to all nations, is now completing its work.
14. That the advent doctrine, embracing, as it does, the resurrection of the body, the personal and visible appear- ance and reign of Christ on earth, the restitution of the heavens and earth to their paradisical state, as the eter- nal inheritance of the saints, etc., is the only view which will explain and harmonize the Word of God.
The intelligent reader will perceive, however, that most of the above arguments are merely precarious in- ferences from passages of Scripture whose meaning is greatly disputed. See Millennium. (J. H. ^Y.)
Milles, Jere.miah, D.D., a celebrated English di- vine and antiquary, was born in 1714, and received his preparatory education at Eton. He studied at Corpus Christ! College, Oxford, and took the degree of M.A. in 1735, and that of D.D. in 1747. His micle, Dr. Thomas Milles, bishop of Waterford and Lismore, collated him to a prebend in the cathedral of Waterford, and pre- sented him to a living near that city. In 1762 Dr. Milles was nominated to the deanery of Exeter, and in 1767 he was chosen president of the Society of Anti- quaries. He died Feb. 13, 1784. In the " Archfeologia" are several communications by him, particularl}' one en- titled Obserralions on the Wardrobe Account of the Year 1483, wherein are contained the deliveries made for the coronation of king Richard III; and another (^Archoeol. iv, 331 sq.) in which he denies the genuineness of the Apamoean medal. In connection with E. Pococke (q. v.), he edited Insci-lptiones Antiqum (1752). He also pub- lished some of his sermons. Dr. Milles is, however, best known in the literary world by his edition in de- fence of the antiquity of the " Poems of Rowlaj'." See Chambers, Ci/clopcedia, s. v. ; AUibone, Diet, of Brit, mid Amer. Authors, ii, 1288.
Millet ("11^, do'chan, so called from the dark-green or smoh/ color of the leaf; Sept. /csy^pocVulg. milium') occurs in Scripture only in Ezek. iv, 9, where the prophet
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is directed to take unto him wheat, and barley, and beans, and lentiles, and millet, and fitches, and to put them into one vessel, and to make bread thereof for him- self. All the grains enumerated in this verse continue to form the chief articles of diet in the East at the pres- ent day, as they appear to have done in ancient times. The Hebrew word dochan is identical with the Arabic dukhun, which is applied in the present day by the Arabs to a small grain cultivated from the middle of Europe to the most southern part of India. This is the common millet, Panicum viiliaceum of botanists, which is sometimes cultivated in England on account of the seeds being used for feeding birds and poultry. But the grain is usually imported from the Mediterranean. In India it is cultivated in the cold weather, that is, in the same season with wheat and barley, and is an article of diet with the inhabitants. The culms are erect, from two to four feet high, the whole plant being very hairy; leaves large, with long sheaths, which involve most part of the culm ; panicle oblong, much branched, bending down with the weight of the grain ; glumes cuspidate ; corol three-valved, adventitious valve emarginate; seed oval and smooth, colored longitudinally with live streaks. The name, miliaceum, is said to have been applied to this plant from its producing such a quantity of grain, as if one stalk bore a thousand seeds. Tournefort says {Voyage, ii, 95) that in the isle of Samos the inhabi- tants, in preparing their bread, knead together one half wheat and the other half barley and millet mixed to- gether. It is also an article of diet both in Persia and India. Forskal applies the name dukhun to another corn-grass, which he first found in a garden at Rosetta, cultivated on account of its seed being given as food to birds. Afterwards he found it commonly cultivated in Arabia. It grows to a great size, being about five cu- bits in height, with seeds of the size of rice. To it he has given the name of Holcus dochna, but the plant is as yet unknown to botanists. The Biblical " millet" is confounded by many writers with the broom-corn vari- eties, which belong to the genus Sorghum, a species of which is the modern Egyptian durra. It is possible that the Heb. dochan includes the common species, aS'o?--