z 1.e. Either 1. A remnant of thee among the Captivity, that i.!l be as perions raiſed from the dead: Or 2. Thy Polierity, exprelled thus, becauſ: they ſprang or proceeded from them. a Heb. waſts of eternity, i. e» which fave lain long waſte; For holam doth not alw:ys ſignifie what is bound:d by no time, but what reſpects a long time, looking either foreward, as G-n. 13» I5+» Exod. 21.6. Or, backward, as here, viz, the ſpace of ſeventy years, and i) may truely be rendred the waits of an Age. By wajte places he mcans the City and Temple, with Cities and Places adjacent,turned as it were ali into a waſte, or wild:rneſs, void nd uarti led, and which was done not only by Ne5u:haanezzar King of Babylon, but by S:nnacherib alſo, and the other Kings of 4ſjria. They had lain fo long deſolate, that the Foxes inhabited them in ſtead of Men, Lam. 5.18, And it was turned ſo much into a Deſert, that they were forced to fight with the Beaſts chat polleiſed it, ro get their food, Lam. 5. 9. 6 Either the founditions that were laid many ge- nerations ago, as thoſe of Jeruſalem, which was not only built, bur was the Head ofa Kingdom in the days of Melchizedeck, who was King thereof in the days of Abraham, as appears Gen. 14+ 18, If that Salem were Jeruſalem, as is generally agreed, and Joſephus writes, Lib. 1. Antiqu't, Cap, 10. who was born about the. 3ooth year after the Tlood : The SuperſtruQtures were now deſtroyed, viz. of Feruſa- lem, and divers other Cities ; Or, that ſhall continue for many gene- rations yet to come. c Thou ſhalt be honoured with this Title, as we uſe toſay, the Fathcr of our Country, 1. e. delervedly fo called, becauſe thou art ſo; The like Phraſe, chzp. 48. 8. d Breach 1s put here colleCtively for Breaches, which were made by God's Judge- meat breaking in upon them in ſuffering the walls of their Towns and Cities ro be d:moliſhed,and their ſtate broken, ch. 5. 5. eSuch an one was Moſes, Pſalm 106. 23. And thistends to the fame ſenſe with the former expreliion, becauſe Men were wont ta make path: over thoſe breaches, to go the neareſt way; Or it may more par- ticularly point at the recovering of the antient paths, and bring- ing them into their wonted courſe, which were either thoſe chief Streets through the Gates of the Cities, or other Lancs out of thoſe Streets, which were now forg ten and loſt, partly by being co- vered with rubbith, and partly by thole ſhorter paths thar were trod, and made over the Breaches; Such a Reſtorer of paths was Nehemiah, Nch. 6. 1. And we read of the ſeveral Repairers he made uſe of, N:h. 3. Or, thoſe paths that led from City to City, which being now laid deſolate, and uninhabited, were grown over with graſs, and weeds, for want of Travellers, or ſafety of trave'ling (of {omething a like caſe we read in the time of the Judg-s, Juag. 5. G6, 7.) and ſoloſt as in a wilderneſs, wherein there 1s n» way, and by building up thoſe Cities again, the ſeveral paths leading to them would be reſtored. f Theſe accommodations being all recovered, their ancient Cities might be fit ro be re-inhabired.
13 If thou turn away thy foot g from the ſabbath b, from doing thy pleaſure 5 on my holy day &, and call the ſabbath a delight /, the holy of the LORD mz. honourable », and fhalt honour him, not doing thine own wayss, nor finding thine own pleaſure, nor ſpeak- ing thine own words p.
g This is taken, either properly, 1. e- if thou take no unneceſ- ſary journeys, or do any ſervile works either of hand or foot that are forbidden on the Sabbath day, the inſtrument beng here pur for the work ; or, Metaphorically, 1. e. if thou keep thy mind. and affeQtions clear, and reſtrain thy ſelf from whatever may prophane it, as David did concerning the word, Pſalm 119. 101. Feet are of- ten put for the Afe#ions, Ecclef. 5. 1. becauſe the mind 15 moved by the affeQions, as the body is by the feet: If we do not 'er ovr thoughts be extravagant either upon impertinencies, or unlawful things. The ſum is, if thou be careful not to break the Sabbath þ Or for the Sabbath's ſake, whether we underſtand it more Jarge- 4 of the occaſional Sabbath in ſolemn Humiliations or. otherwiſe