Prophetic text
To His Highnesse the Lord Protector: The Humble Addresses of Menasseh ben Israel
Menasseh ben Israel
Petitions for Jewish residence and worship in England; the second motive explicitly relates Daniel 12:7 to completing dispersion everywhere before messianic restoration, with England the outstanding destination. Economic and religious-liberty motives coexist with this expectation.
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Edition and location
1655 English pamphlet reset in Lucien Wolf, ed., Menasseh ben Israel's Mission to Oliver Cromwell (1901), Project Gutenberg 62562
Printed pp. 75–80, opening address and Declaration of the Motives, especially second motive