book advances, the enemies arise to assail, but are utterly destroyed, so that they nowhere appear. It is also a Protest against all false gods and false christs, who are about to come to nothing. For before the first revelation of God in creation, and after the last revelation of Him in the final consummation, there is no other God ; all false gods have both been set up and removed in the intermediate time : and so, before the coming of Christ in the flesh, and after His com- ing to judgment, there is no other Christ; all false christs have had their being in the intermediate time. And when all things shall be made subject unto the Son of God , then shall the Son also Himself be subject unto Him , that made all things subject unto Him , that God may be all in all : 1 Cor. xv. 28. — K vpiog, the Lord) The whole of this passage is majestic ; and the magnificent and full title of God here employed, requires fuller consideration.
§ 1. We will only lay down the rudimentary principle : and in this, many observations will flow together, which may neither en- tirely please any one (for I do not even satisfy myself), nor entirely displease ; and therefore they are subjoined for the selection and more mature examination of any one who pleases.
§ 2. The title has four parts [members]:
1) K vpiog, the Lord .
2) * O Qsog, God .
3) ' O ujv xa/' 6 xai 6 sp^ofisvog, Who is , and who was , and
who is to come .
4) 'O '7ravroitpu,rup , the Almighty . It will be convenient to
examine these parts in inverted order.
§ 3. The fourth, 6 rtuvroxpdrup, the Almighty, in the old Testament answers to two Hebrew words : for in Job it is often put for '15?, but absolutely, not in apposition with other Divine names : therefore a parallelism is not to be fixed there. See below, § 24, respecting the passage in Exod. vi. The other word, which the title o ‘7ravroxpdrup comprises in the other passages, is Sabaoth .
§ 4. Sabaoth is not a Divine name in the nominative case, but it enters into the nomenclature of God, when He is called Jehovah of Sabaoth, God of Sabaoth, Jehovah God of Sabaoth, that is, of hosts.
§ 5. This title does not occur in Genesis : its first beginnings are found in Exod. vii. 4, I will bring forth Mine aimnies, My people , the children of Israel, out of the land of Egypt ; and ch. xii. 41, A ll the hosts of the Lord went out from the land of Egypt. There appeared to Joshua, when he had passed over the Jordan, One who called Himself by this title, the Captain of Jehovah's army : Josh. v. 14,