Had the saints of apostolic times waited for the fulfillment of various events, before the coming of the Lord, they must have waited for the dispersion of the Jews, and a whole series of events, of long duration, connected with that dispersion, as well as their bringing back again. It would have come in as an. historical event, in a series, not as a living expectation; but they were the Church—not Jews—and the Lord was precious to them.