; em their Faith by a ſtrange and prodigious Sign, which ——_ not be, that ds os ould conceive 2 Child, but that a Virgin ſhould conceive &-c. i Or rather, bring forth, as it is rendred Mat. 1. 23: and as this Hebrew Word is uſed Gen. 16.11, and 17. 19- Judges 13: 5- k The Virgin, laſt mentioned, ſbal ca : Which is added as a further Evidence of her Virginity,and that this Son had no Humane Father, becauſe the Right of Naming the Child ( which being a Sign of Dominion, 1s primarily in the Huſ- band, and in the Wife only by his conſent or permiſſion, as 1s evi» dent from Gen: 5: 29« and 35: 38. Luke 1, 60, 63: and many other places of Scriprure ) is wholly appropriated to her. Which fig- nifies, God with us, God dwelling among us in our Nature, John 5. 14. God and Man meeting in one Perſon, and being a Mediator between God and Men. For the deſign of theſe Words is nor fo much to relave the Name by which Chriſt ſhould commonly.be called, as to deſcribe his Nature and Office : As we read thar his Name ſhal be called Wonderful, Counſelleur, &c. Iſa. 9; 6. and that chis 3s ſaid to be his ( the Men's ) Name whereby he [hal be called, The Lord our Righteouſneſs, Jer. 23: 6. although he be never called by theſe Names in any other place of the Old or New Teſtament 3 but the meaning of theſe Places is, He ſhal be Wonderful, and our Coun- ſellor, &Fs. and our Righteouſneſs: For, #0 be called is oft put for
tobe, as Iſa. 1: 26: and 4 3, &«. 15 Butter and honey (hal he » cat, that he may
know 9 co refuſe the evil,and chuſe the good p. 1 The common Food of Children in that Country, where they were in great abundance, and of the beſt fort. » The Virgins Son laſt mentioned, who, though he be God bleſſed for ever, yer thal become Man, and, to ſhew the Truth of his Humanity, ſhall not only be conceived and brought forth, bur alſo ſhal be nouriſhed and brought up by the ſame means and ſteps as other Children; which is july mentioned here as2 ſtupendious and miraculous Work of God, o That by this Food he may grow up,and ſo may know,&c. Or. until be know,as it is rendred by divers Learned Men,and among others, by the Chalace Interpreter,who beſt knew the uſe of this Pare ticle among the Hebrews: p To diſcern between things morally good hich Childrenare _— of doing in __ meature, | e five or fix years o1d.Compare Deut. 1.39. where young am, Angra} di this Charatter, that they had no Knowleage
between good and evil. | 16 * For q before the child r ſhal know to refuſe the evil.and chuſe the good, rhe lands that thou abhorreſt
; ſhal beforſaken of both her Kings «. Or, 7ea; for ſo this Particle is uſed by way of amplification or
| Addition, 1/#,3 2. 13-Jer+14. 5, 18. So the ſenſe is,Nor only this Land
of thine ſhal be preſerved until the Virgins Son be born, but thine Enemies Land ſhal be ſorely ſcourged, and theſe two Kings de» ſtroyed, within a very little time. 7 Heb. this Child, not the Virgins Son, but the Prophets Child, Shear-jaſbub,whom in all probability the Propher, to prevent miſtakes, pointed aty and who was brought hi- ther by Gods ſpecial command, v: 3. and that for this veryuſe ; for otherwiſe his | 440 was wholly inſignificant. s The Lands, to wit, of Syria and 1(rael,as 1s evident from the next Words, Ir is an Enallage of the Singular for the Plural. # For its cruel Deſigns and PraQtices agzinſt. Or, which, wexeth or moleſteth thee,as this Word is uſed Exod: 1: 12: Num: 224 3, &c.u So far ſhal Pekaband Rezinbe from conquering thy Land, that they ſhal loſe their own Lands. and their Lives too; which they did within two Years after this Time being both ſlain by the King of Aſyria, 2 Kings 15. 29, 30. and
16G. 9,
-.17 The LORD ſhal bring « upon thee y and upon thy People, and upon thy Fathers houſe z,4days a that havenot come,from the day that * Ephraim departed from Judah 6b, even the king of Afſſyria c.
x But although God will deliver you at this Time for his own Names fake, yet he will remember and requite all your preſent and following Wickedneſs, and hath a dreadful Judgment in ſtore for you. y For part of this Aſhrian Storm fell in Ahaz his Rei gn, 2 Ghrom: 28: 20. £ Upon thy Sons and Succeſſours, the Kings of Judah the accompliſhment whereof 1s recorded in their Hiſtory, To wit, evil days, by a Synechavche; or Calamities, For days are oft pur for the Events which happen in them, and eſpecially for Judgmears or Tribulations, as Fob 18: 20. Pſalm 137. 7, Iſa: 9.4. Obat: v: 12. b When ten Tribes revolted from thy Father's Houſe, and ſer up a- nother oppoſite Kingdom, c Who may well be called their Plague or Calamity, as he is called the Rod of God's Anger, Iſa; 10; 5. Or, with ( as this Hebrew Particle oft ſignifies ) the King, &c. or by theKing, &c. And King is here put for Kings. as Dan. 2.37. and 8: 21.
138 And it ſhal come to paſs in that day 4, that the LORD hal hiſs e for the flie f, that is in the uttermoſt part g of the Rivers hb of Egypt, and for the Bee 3 that
is in the land of Aſſyria k,
d Known to God, and appointed by him for the Execution of theſe Judgments. eSee on Iſs: 5: 26: f The Flies. So he cal's theſe Enemies,to imply either tkeir great Numbers,or their ſpeedy March, or their unavoidable Aſſault. g In, or near, or towards their Ex= tremity or End, wherethey go our into the Sea. h Of rhe River Nilus, which may be called Rivers, either for its greatneſs, for which cauſe the Title of Rivers is givenalſo to Euphrates, Pſalm 137; 1:and to Tigris, Nah; 2:6 : or becauſe, rowards the end of it, it is divis ded into ſeven famous Streams, by which it emptieth it ſelf into the Midland Sca,1ſs; 11: 15+ He ſeems p/ainly ro deſign and deſcribe the Egyptians, who were always dangerous Neighbours to Judah,and did probably animate and afſiſt rhe Philiſtines, and Edomites, and others againſt them, and ar laſt made a formal Invaſion and Conqueſt of
eir Land, 2 Kings 23: 33, &c. Beſides, when the Chaldeans had in good meaſure ſubdued the Egyptians, it is very probable that great numbers of the Egyptian Soldi-rs did liſt themſelves in the Chaldean Army, and with them invade the Land of Judah. 7 The Bees, the Aſſyrian Army, who are compared to Bces as for their numerous Forces and orderly March, ſo for their fiercs Attempts and miſe
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