Annotations upon the Holy Bible — Volume 1 — Section 1394

| words are and may well be rendred thus, i» the beauties or glories of ; the Sanftuary, (is &:) by an uſual Hebraiſm, in the beautiful and | glorious Sanctuary, which is called the Holy and beautiful houſe, 1ſas ' G4: 17. either in the temple at Jeruſalem, which was honoured with Chriſts preſence, whereby it excelled the glory of the firſt houſe, according to Hagg: 2: 9. in which both Chriſt and the Apoſtles preached, and by their preaching made many of theſe willing people : or in Jeru[alem, which is oft called the Holy place or City, by the ſame word which is here rendred San#uary : or in the Church of God and of Chriſt, which was the Antitype of the old Sanctuary or Temple, , as is evident from: 1. Cor. 3.16, 17-2 Cor. 6. 16. Heb: 3, 6- 1 Pet. 2.5- And this place may be mentio« ned as the place either where Chriſts people are made willing, and ſhew their willingneſs, or where Chriſt exerciſeth and mani. teiteth that power 1lijt mentioned. s This place is judge 4 P s judged. the moſt difficult and obſcure of any in this whole Book-. The words are diverſly rendred and underſtood.:. They are to be underſtood cither, 1. of Chriſt himſelf, and that in reſpe& either, 1.,of his divine and eternal generation, which may be called che dew of his youth or birth, and which he may be ſaid ro have had from che womb of che morning, before the firſt morning or light was created or brought out of its Womb; that is, before the world was, which 15 a common deſcription of Eternity in Scripture. Or, . 2. of, his Humane Nature and Birth, and ſo the words may be thus rendred From the womb of the morning. (C Or, as it is rendred by divers 0< thers, From the womb, from the morning ( i e.) from thy very firſt birth ) chou haſt or hadft the dew of thy youth, ( i, e. ) thoſe eminent Bleſſings and graces wherewith thou was enriched, or thy youth or childhood Was like the dew, precious and acceptable. Or rather, : 2- of Chriſts ſubje&s or people, of whom he evidently ſpoke in, the former part of the Verle, 5 wherewith theſe words are joyneds And it {cems not probable, that the Pſalmiſt after he had diſcour. ſed of Chriſts advancement to his Kingdom,and his adminiſtration of it, and ſucceſs in it, both as to his enemies and friends, would run back to his birth, either Divine o Humane, both which were * evidently and neceffarily ſuppoſed in what he had already ſaid of hime _But then theſe words may be read cither, 1. ſeparately, as two diſtin& clauſes, as they ſeem to be taken by our Engliſh Tran= flators, and by the Colon which they placed in the middle. . And ſo the firſt clauſe belongs to the foregoing words, as noting the time When the people ſhall be willing, which having declared more generally in thoſe words, in the day of thy power, he now deſcribes, more particularly and exatly, that they ſhould be ſo even from cha morning, or in a Poetical ſtrain, which 1s very ſuitable to this Book, from the womb of the morning, to wit, of that day of his power, ( 7.e. ) from the very beginning of Chriſts entrance upon his King- dom,which was after his Reſurre&ion and Aſcenſion into Heaven, and from the very firſt preaching of the Goſpel after that time, when multitudes were made Chriſts willing people by the Preach- ing of the Apoſtles, as we read A#s 2: and 3. and 4. and 5, &c. And for the'ſecond clauſe, it is to be underſtood thus, thou haſt, or as it js in the Hebrew, #0 thee is, the dew of thy youth, or of thy childhood, for the word jeled, from which this is derived, fignifies ſometimes a young man, and ſometimes a child or Injant, By youth or childhood he here ſeems to underſtand thoſe young men . or chil- dren which ſhall be born to the Meſſias, who are called his children, Heb, 2. 13. and his ſeed, Iſa, 53.10. wherein poſſibly there mighe be an alluſion to this dew. Thus the abſtract-is here- pur for the concrete, which is very frequent in the Hebrew Tongue, as Cir= cumciſion and Uncircumciſun are put for the Circumciſed and the Un« circumciſed, &c. And even in the Latine Tongue this very word youth is oft uſed for a young man or for a company of young men. By the dew of youth he means youth or young men like dew, the note of ſimilitude being oft underſtood: And this progeny of Chriſe 1s compared to the dew, partly becauſe of their great multitude, being like drops of dew innumerable, and covering the whole face- of the earth ; ſee 2 Sam. 17. 12: and partly becauſe of the ſtrange manner of their generation: which like that of the dewz, is done {uddenly and ſecretly, and not perceived till it be accemphiſhed, and to the admiration of thoſe that behold it 3 of which ſee Iſa: 49. 21. Or, 2. joyntly, as one entire fentence, The dew of thy yourh- (i e.) Thy poſterity, which 1s like the dew, as was noted and explained before) is as the dew ( which may very well be underſtood. out of the foregoing clauſe, as the word feet is under- Nood in like manner, Pſal: 18. 33. He maketh my feet like hinds feet) of or from the womb of the morning, 1t is like the morning dew, as it is called both in Scripture, as Hoſea 6. 4, and in other Authors.Nor is it ſtrange that a womb is aſcribed ro the morning, ſeing we read of the womb of the Sea, and of the womb of the ice and froft, Jt 38. 8, 28, 29. - > 4 The LORD hath ſworn z, and will not repent, * Thou art # a prieſt x for ever y after the order of Mel- *r 1 chizedek &. | 51 , t Which he did not in the Aaronical Prieſthood, Meb: 9. 21, but did it here, partly becauſe the thing was new and ſtrange,and might ſeem incredible, becauſe God had already ere&ed another, and that an everlaſting Prieſth)ody Num. 25. 13. and given it to Aa ron and his Poſteriry for ever, and therefore this needed all poſs ſible aſſurance : and partly that this Prieſthood might be eſfabliſbed pon be.ter promiſes, as is {aid H?3: 8. 6. and made ture and irrevo« cable, and ſuch that God neither could nor.would repenr of it, as ir follows. : w To wit, by my order and conſtitution : thou ſhale be ſo, and I do hereby make thee ſo, x As well as a King-Thoſe Offices which were divided before between two Families, are both united and inveſted in thee, both being abſolutely neceſſary for the diſcharge of thine Office, and fur the eſtabliſkment of thy King. dom, which is of another kind than the Kingdoms of the World, ſpiritual and heavenly. and therefore needs ſuch a King as is alſo a Miniſter of holy. things. This word plainly diſcovers that this Pialm cannot be underſtood of David, as ſome of the Jews would have it, but only of the Meſſias. And although this word Cohen be ſometimes uſed of a Prince or great Perſon in the State, as the ik objeQ, yer ir cannot be ſo underſtood here, partly becauſe it ignifics a Prieft in Gen: 14.18, from whence this expreſſion is bore rowed ; partly becauſe that +word is . never uſed of a. Soveraign fangs or King ( ſuch as the Jews confeſs the Mefſſias to be ) but, only of inferiour Princes or Miniſters of State, as Gen, 41.,45- 5B 4 *- gfe 2 Same