1d iniquity. I know I have marked their thoughts and works por gh. 19% ) O the vileneſs of them! Should I ſuffer, ſhould I endure them ? No» It ſball come, either the Judgements before threatned ſhal come: or it ſthal come to paſs, that I will caſt them off, and then 1 will gather all Nations, &c. m $0 4s it ſhall come, may either refer to the threatning of Judgements in the former part, or the promiſe of calling the Gentiles in the latter part of the verſe.Others make the verſe one entire Sentence,and the Senſe thus, Jeing 1 know their works, 8c. or when the time ſhal come, that I ſhal let them by my vengeance know, that'1 knew their works. 1 well gather all Nations and Languages. I will call the Gentiles into my Church, and o My Oracles, my holy Inſtitutions and Ordinances, have been locked up in the Church of the Jews,Rom.
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Tarſhiſh, Pull and Lud that draw the bow, to Tubal ' and Javan, to the liles afar off q, that have not heard. my fame, neither have ſeen my glory, and they ſhall declare my glory among the Gentiles 7.
p Ic is on all hands agreed that this Verſe is a Prophecy of the Converſion of the Gentiles. By ſign here ſome underſtand an Erſign, as the word ſignifies, Pſal. 74. 4+ which is a military ſign to gather People together; by this may be underſtood Chriſt, Luke 2. 34- See Iſa. 11. 10. or as others the miniffry of the Word attended with Miracles, ( often called ſigns) theſe were ſet up amongſt the Jews firſt, then among the Gentiless Others ( bur leſs probably ) under- ſtand by ſign s Mark of DiſtinQion, like that mentioned, Ezek, 9. 4+ ſo as, faith he, ſome ſhal eſcape and not be deſtroyed, and for thoſe that ſhal eſcape, I will ſnd them to 9 Tarſhiſh, Pull, Lud, Tubal, Javan, to Europe, Aſia, and Afica, to all the Quarters of the World, ( ſee the Latin Syopſir, and the Engl:ſh Anner. large Diſcourſes of theſe particular places,) to all Nations that had never before heard of God, or his true Worſhip, r And they ſhal every where Preach the Goſpel, and fer up my Goſpel-Ordinances and Inſtitutions. This was eminently made good upon the Apoſtles leaving the Jews, and turning to the Gentiles, 4#s 13. 46. and more ful'y after the Deſtru&ion of Jeruſalem, when the Believers among the Jews, as well as the Apoſtles, went abour publiſhing the Goſpel toall People, which was the declaring of the Lords glory. :
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