15 Thehill of God » 5s as the hill of Baſh high hill «s the hill of Baſhan. GENT” ST
n (7, e. of Zion, the ſeat of Gods Ark. o Equal I I
in height, as the next Clauſe explains it, which oh Sp Boy Ry he underitocd of an external and viſible height, for Zim was a low
and little Hill, and Baſhan a very high Hi!! ; but of its ſpiritual
eight, or exaltation in regard of the glorious priviledges of Gods ore rom wopage,, _ — conferred upon it ; in which
elpect the Mountain of the Lords Houſe; 1s ſaid to be e{; of the Mountains, aud exalted above the Hills, Iſa. = Y Rn RO
16 Why leapyep, ye high hills ? + 7his 5s the hill *Pſal87.;
which God deſireth to dwell in ; yea, the LORD will 3% m_—_— in it for ever 9.
Þ Why do you triumph and boaſt of your height, and poor Z:oz- with ſcorn and contempt, 4 an 8-4, 2 yoke derable Hill, if compared with you ? He ſpeaks to the Hills by an uſual Fj gure called Proſopopeia. q This Hill, though deſpicable in your Eyesz is precious and honourable in Gods Eyes, and choſen b him for his ſerrled and perpetual refidence. For though the Ark was removed from this particular place, in which it was now to be placed, to the Hill of Mr:ah, upon which the Temple was built
yet it muſt be remembred, that Ziomand Moriah ſtood one near to the other, being both in Jeruſalew, and are by ſome ſaid to have been bur two tops of one and the ſame Hill.
I7 © The chariotsof r God are twenty thouſand x, x "9, [| | ever thouſands of angels: the Lord is among them : 33 "y «5 1n Sinai, in the holy place x. | Dan. 1.16
7 7. e. The hoſts or Armies ( whereof Chariots were a great and Heb. 12.
eminent part in thoſe times and places) which attend upon God to 22
do his pleaſure, and to fight for him and for his people. 5 # e. An Rev. $16 inumerable company, a certain number being put for an uncertain, || Or, es - Pſal. 3. 6. and 91. 7. and in many other places. : Here is not on- 1Pany this y the preſence of the Angels,but ofthe great and bleſſed God him. ſan. ſelf. Andhere the Pſalmiſt ſeems to be tranſported by the Pro. t Hb. pherical Spirit, from the Narration of thoſe external Succeſſes, and Thouſand ViRories of which he had been ſpeaking in the former part of the of dublin Pſalm, unto the prediQtion of higher and more glorious things,even Or abt of the coming of the Meſſiah ; and of the happy and tranicene 0% dent Priviledges and Bleſſings accruing to Mankind by it, deſcrib» ed in the next Verſe, And the connexion of this new matter with the former, is ſufficiently evident. For having preferred Z:62: be- fore other Hills, v. 15, 16. he now proves its excellency by an in- vincible Argument, becauſe this is the place to which the Lord of Hoſts himſelf, the Meſſiah, God manifeſted in the Fleſh, was to come, as 1s manifeſt from Pſal. 2.6. and 110. 2. Iſa. 2. 3. and 28, 16. compared with x Per. 2. 6. Iſa. 59- 20. compared with Rom, 1 to 26. and many other places of Scripture. And when he did come into the World, he was attended with amultitude of holy angels which celebrated his Birth, Luke 2. 14. t God isno leſs eriond though leſs terribly, preſent here than he was in Sinai, when he great God attended with Thouſands of his Angels, ſolemnly ap- peared there to deliver the Law. Heb. Sinai is in the Sanfuary .< holy place, Which is a Poetical and a very Emphatical Expreſſion and very pertinent to this place. For having advanced Zron above all other Hills, he now equals it to that venerable Hill of Sinai which the Divine Majeſty honoured with his glorious Preſence. Here, faith ke, you have in ſome ſort Mount Sm it ſelf, to wit, all the Glories and Priviledges of it, the preſence of Jehovah at- tended with his Angels, and the ſame Law and Covenant, yea,and a greater Priviledge than S/nar had, to wit,the Lord Fehovah deſcen- ding from Heaven into an Human Body, as appears by his aſcen= ding thither again, which the next Verſe deſcribes, and viſibly _ = his own Temple, as it was propheſied concerning
im, Mal. 3. 1. * Fphigi 18 * Thou haſt aſcended on high « ; thou haſt led Nr captivity x captive ; thou haſt reccived gifts y + for men th: 2, yea, for the rebellious alſo a, that the LORD God
might dwell among themb.
# Having ſpoken of the Lord, and of his preſence upon Earth he now turneth his Speech to him, asis moſt uſual in this Book: And the Contents ofthis Verſe do not agreeto the preſent occaſion of carrying the Ark to Zton, . but have a manifeſt reference to Chriſt and to his Aſcenſion into Heaven, in whom, and in whom alone they are literally and fully accompliſhed, and to whom therefore they are aſcribed, Eph. 4. 8. Although the Expreſſions here uſed, are borrowed from the Antient Cuſtom of Princes, or Generals of Armies, who, after ſome glorious Atchievments and Vifories,uſ- ed to goup into their Royal Cities in triumphant Chariots, being attended by their caprive Enemies, and afterward to diſtribure divers gifts to their Soldiers and Subje&s, and ſometimes do ſome AQts of Grace and Clemency even to their Rebels and Enemies, and to receive them into the number of his own people. x Et- ther 1. Thoſe who did formerly take thy people Captives, Or
rather 2+ Thoſe whom thou haft taken captive, as this word is moſt commonly uſed, as Numb. 21. 1. Deut. 21. 10. Fudgs 5. 12,0. So poverty is put for the poor, 2 Kings 24. 14. This is meant 0 Death and Sin, and the Deyil, and all the Encmies of Chriſt,
and
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Numb, MW 33»
* Exod l& 22,
Porg.; 158.10 Or, red,
Pol, LXVIIL.