or no man to help in ſuch a caſe, ro ſhew himſelf, and appear in ſuch a corrupt ſtate in the behalf. of equity, as verſe 4. the like circumſtances we have Ezek. 22. 29, 3o. or none fit to intercede. m Heb. Iiſftomen, ws amazed, aſtonitthed, as it were, not know- ing what to do: This notes both Gods ſolicitouſneſs about their condition, together with their du'eneſs, and blockiſhnefs, in not concerning themſelves about it, eſpecially conſidering they had been a People fo well inftrufted, and yer under the guilt of ſuch grols ſins, thould be no more ſolicitous about pardon, which God would readily have granted, if any ſuch could have been found, Fer. 5.1. n Or, Net. as it is uſed,ch. 7.' 14.and51. 28, o This may relate 1.To the partic: rhus opprefled : Or2.To God, as that either 1. He would do his work withour help from any other, ch, 51. 5. Or 2. He would avenge himſelf, his own honour ; Thus the word is uſed 1 Sa. 25. 26. and this may, and fcems to be the meaning
of the next clauſs. Or 3. He had made Proviſion for the main- raining his own Righteous Cauſe, and Peoples Intereſt ; This ſenſe, that phraſe, ſo like this, favours ch. 63. 5. Salvation unto me. p Viz. His Juſtice, 9 d. ſecing there could be no Juſtice found among them,he would avenge th: Innocent himſelf, «hich agrees with v 8. and is juſtified by ch. 63« 5. where ſpeaking of the deitruttion of the
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tor R*ghteonuſncls, The literal meaning is God's taking vengeance on the Cha'deans for his People's ſake : Phe myſtical is Chriſt's making uſe of his own Righreoutneſs for the Redemption of ioit Man, bc= ing deltiture of ajl other.
17 * For be put on righteouſneſs as a breaſt-plate q, and an helmet r of faivation upon his head ; and he pur on.the garments of vengeance s for cloathing, and was clad with zeal t as a cloke. |
q God, reſolving to appear as a Man of War againſt Babyl:n, that did now opprets his People, puts on his Arms, Heb. Wrapt himſelf, and particularly his Breaſt-plate, which he calls Righteouſ- neſs, to ſhew the juſtne!s of his Cauſe, as alſo his Vairhfulneſs in making good his Promiſes to his People. r As the Breafi-plate is to detend the Heait and vital paits, whereby God doth itgaifie the Innoceucy and juſtice of his Caute, as well as his Faithfulnelſs; So the Helmet is to defend the Brain, the fountain of rhe animal Spirits, and therefore by this piece of Armour wou'd have us - know that he 1s invincible: As by the other, that he defends a juſt Cauſe in his Truth, and Faithfulneſs, to by this, that he cannot be diſappointed in it by reaſon of his Power, and Invincibleneſs. s Or Garments made of Vengeance:- as God is ſaid to pur on the former for their ſakes, whom he would preſerve, ſo he puts on theſe for their ſakes, whom he will deſtroy, wiz. his Peoples ene- mies, the Chaldeans, and other enemies of the Jews, 7t Either 1. Zeal to his own Honour,which had been given to Idols. Or 2. Zeal for his ownPeople,who were now in diſtreſs. Or 3. Zeal and Indignati- on againſt the Babyloiians, who were ſuch grear oppreflors of his People,w' ich are the materials, that his Garment of Vengcance,and his C!oke of Zc 1 is made of. It may betrifli:g to follow the Mes taphor of Garments too cloſe; See of the Phraſe, Judges 6. 34. marg. The Summ of all theſe Expreſſions is this, to deſcribe vorh the cauſe, an! Fe& rogether, the Cauſe was Rfhteonſneſs and Zeal in God, thc. Lifctt Salvation to his People, and Yengeance on his: ene»
mer verſe ; Ir failzh For being only falen, it may recover it -
gom_ {o ſome. Joſephus tells us, that immediatly before the
cency is oppreſſed, in bargaining, as buying, and ſelling. They 7.
L Viz, To intercede, which is ſuppoſed from the following words; ' ®..- BU ; | ; ſenſes, to wir, with particular reſpect to Sermacherib, then the ſpirit
mics, as is evident from the next verte. ; 15 *According to their | deeds «, accordingly he will repay, fury x to his adverſaries, recompence to his ene-
[ mes, to the iſlands y he will repay recompence. { # Heb. Recompences or Deſerts, 'i. e. He will recompence his Ade. verſaries with thoſe effets of his fury that they have deſerved. | x- A Metonymy of the Efficient ; For the effe&s of his fury. y Or, Iflanders, a Metonymy of the containing for the contained, ei- ; ther Meſopotamia, . and other adjacent iſlands, encompaſſed by 7y- { gris and Euphrates; Or thoſe remoter Nations (for the Hebrews call : Nations remore from Judca, I{lands, Gen. 10. 5. chap. 41. 1. See on ; chap. 20. 6 and the reaſon of it. } under tht King of Babylon, that
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