Distortions

Why the Jews Rejected The Messiah

Chrestomathy

The difference between the Messianic hope of the Old Testament and of the later (intertestamental) time was that between the utterances of inspired men who spoke the message of God, and uninspired men who spoke of it with the feelings of personal injury burning in their hearts . . . . It was still "the kingdom"--but Judaic, not universalistic

Alfred Edersheim, Prophecy and History in Relation to the Messiah (Grand Rapids: Baker Book House, [1901] 1980), p318. (Alfred Edersheim (1825--1889) was born and educated in a Jewish home but later converted to Christianity. His perspective therefore is unusually keen and comprehensive on the subject of Jewish history and Old Testament prophecy and its fulfilment.)