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 versal diffusion of true religion and vital godliness? We answer, without hesitation, the conversion of the Jewish people. And this is what Daniel foretells in the chapter we are now considering, the twelfth chapter. And what Daniel foretells is foretold by all the prophets, and by Jesus Christ, the King of Prophets. "Jerusalem," says our Lord, "shall be trodden down by the Gentiles, the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled." And "at that time," says the angel to Daniel, "shall thy people be saved, every one that shall be found written in the Book," that is, in the Book of God's Predestination. This corresponds with what St. Paul assures us of in his Epistle to the Church of Rome (Rom. xi. 25, 26): "For I would not have you ignorant, brethren, of this mystery, that blindness in part hath happened in Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles should come in: and so all Israel shall be saved, as it is written, There shall come out of Sion, he that shall deliver, and he shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob." And as St. Paul a little before had said (Rom. xi. 15), "For if the loss of them," that is, the apostasy of the Jews from Christ, "be the reconciliation of the world," that is, the occasion of the preaching of the faith to the Gentiles, "what shall the receiving of them be, but life from the dead?" that is, what shall