ſ $9 as to keep tale of them, as it is ſaid they were wont to do both Morning and evening in thoſe Countries,
14 Behold, the days come, ſaith the LORD, that I
will perform that good thing which I have promiſed un- to the houſe of Iſrael, and to the houſe of Judah 7. Ry 7 The Lord is not yes, and nay, he cannot. Iye nor repet. I ſpeak ] not of the preſent time, but there shall be a time when God will 4 Juſtifie every good word of this nature; which he hath ſpoken to his | ancient People,
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: JR I5 T In thoſe days, and at that time will I cauſe the ; Branch of righteouſneſs to grow up unto David #s, Te; and he ſhall execute Judgment and righteouſneſs in the
land.
u Whatſoever the Jews and ſame o hers ſay,the Branch ofRighteouſ- #eſs here ſpoken of,can be meant of no other but Chriſt, who 1s.cal- J:d a Branch out of the Stem of Jeſſe, 1ſa.11.1. The Branch of the Lord, Iſa. 4. 2. A Righteous Branch, Chap: 23 5. ( Seethe Notes on thoſe Places) Ze#rababel though deſcended from David cannot be meant here, but the ſame who is thus called in a!l thoſe paraliel Texts,of | whom yet Zorababel (being 2 good Man, and deſcended from the | Family of David) may be allowed to have been a Type, -bur this Text far more concerneth Chriſt, as he in whom all th: Promiſes | are fourided, and in whom they are all 72a, and Amen. The Kings E- they had hitherto had of the line of David, were moſt of them un- ' righteous Men, but God promiſeth. thar after the Captivity, they ſhould bave a Branch of David that ſhould execure, Judgment and Righteouſneſs in the Land, for the prote&ion and government of thoſe that feared him.
16 In thoſe days, ſbal Judah be ſaved, and Jeruſalem
LG ſhall dwell ſafely w3 and this zs the name wherewith Zzidkems, ſhe ſhall be called F, The LORD our righteouſneſs x.
w It is the Opinion of ſome thar a ſpiricual Salvation and ſecurj- ty is promiſed under theſe expreſſions,but the moſt and beſt Inter- preters rather underſtand it ofa temporal Salvation as pr 1Mmar ily Ine rended though typical of that Spiritual and Eternal Salvation which is ofren promiſed to the true Iſrael of GOD ; as their reſt in Canaan typifizd that Rf which remaineth for the People of God. *« Our Tranſlation of this Phraſe is ſomerbing ſtrange, the
words in the Hebrew are PTS mm mM? "RP! "WR mM?
Pagnine Trarſlateth them, Andihe who ſhall call is the Lord our Righ- $-ouſnsſs, ſupplying the Verb ſubſtantive, is. He who ſhall call it is the Lord our Righteouſueſs. We Tranſlate it, This the name where- with it ſhall be called, &c, that which cauſes the difficulty is, thar the Pronoun ill which ſignifieth he, is applied borh to perſons and things, and tranſlated heor ir, and the relative WR is of all caſes ſo may be tranſlated who, or which, or with which, theſe words which our Tranſlators have ſupplicd, 5s the name, are not in the Hebrew, This hath made a great doubt amongſt Iaterpreters, whe- ther, The L:rd our righteouſneſs be the 2ame of Chr:t, or the name of the City. Ido incline to their opinion, who think thar it is here men- . tioned as the name of Chriſt. , In that ſence there js nothing to be anJerſtood but the Verb ſubſtantive, 5”, which is ordinarily under- ſtood ; (fo the words are thus, And he who ſhall cal: it, is, the Lord our Righteouſneſs. The context ſeemeth to fivour this, Chriſt being that Ruler mentioned, wv; 15. as he who ſhall execute, Juſtice, and the Land, beſides that thers is noſuch Name any where
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r-0uſn:ſs, bur the Full import of that name is ſpoken of Carift, 8 If4:44.23 which Text is applied to Chriſt, Rom:14: 11: Phil:2:10.heis | <a']ed the Juſt King, Zzch:9. 9. and our righteouſneſs, 1 Cor: 1: 30. Fro F For thus ſaith the LORD, + David ſhall never , ,,., |
7 *want a man to fit upon the throne of the houſe of If ;3ere pd rael : 7 ; | : not be
3 This is apparently a promiſe relating to Chriſt, for David's off frons |flF Line had failed long lince,had it not been continued in Chriſt whoſe Davie. | Kingdom is. and ſhall be an everlaſting Kingdom. So long as 1/rad © 2 Samijif r-mained a Kinydom, thoſe of the Line of David ruled. over it,wben 7: 16. iS thar failed ; Chriſt came in the fleh, who ruleth, and ſhall rule #* Kings! over the Iſrael of God for ever. 2.4. ii
18 Neither ſhall the prieſts the Levites want a man before me, to offer burnt-offerings,and to kindle meat- offerings, and to do ſacrifice containually z. - . |
z The beſt interpret-rs underſtand this of a Miziftry to abide in the Church to the end of the World, according ro Mitrhew 28; 20, nor is it unuſual tor God in the O'd Teſtament to expreſs Promiſes relating to, and to befultilled under the Goſpel by expreſſions, and rerms proper to the Old Teſtament, as 1/a:66:23. and in th's ſenſe it muft be expounded, or reſtrained to the times immediatly follovr. ing the Captivity;but it is generally underſtood, as a Promiſe fora Goſpel Miniſtry to ſucceed the miniſtry in the Jewiſh Church,and to
abide to the end of the World 0s a | 15 And the word of the LORD came unto Jere-