And farther on in the same context of Scripture He
says, Therefore wait thou for Me, saith the Lord, until the day of My Resurrection at the
Testimony Zeph. iii. 8: until the day that I
rise up to the prey. For דעלְ, to the prey,
the LXX. seem to have read דע“לְְ, to the testimony. About ten
years before these Lectures were delivered, Eusebius (Life of
Constantine, III. c. xxviii.), speaking of the discovery of the
Holy Sepulchre, a.d. 326, calls it “a
testimony to the Resurrection of the Saviour clearer than any voice
could give.”. Thou seest
that the Prophet foresaw the place also of the Resurrection, which was
to be surnamed “the Testimony.” For what is the
reason that this spot of Golgotha and of the Resurrection is not
called, like the rest of the Churches, a Church, but a Testimony?
Why, perhaps, it was because of the Prophet, who had said, until the
day of My Resurrection at the Testimony.