| Ja. 39. 19. and eh:p. 65. 24. It ſhall come ro pals befor? they call 1 will anſwer, and while thy are yr ſpzaking T wil þh-ar, 7. The ord is quick in hearing, and helping his People. The Angel was made to fly {wit:- ly, even unto wearineſs as ſome trantlate it: Or to fly with flight, Has. 1.8. The time of the evening-Sacrifice. was a ſolemn and ſet time of Dzvotion. Then God heard Elij th and did Wonders, 1 Kings 18. 39, 37, 38+ and Jeſus Chrilt the Saviour -of the World as ficr;- hiced for us at tho” tie, avour the ninth Hour, Matth 25. 46. Mar. | '$+ 34. Luke 23.44, KC. all thele three Evangeliſts mention Chriſt giv:ng up the Gnoir a* the ninth Hour, which was the time of the evenog- acritiie. At this time Gad»7el is ſent ro Daniel rg toll him the time of the Methah's Death, and the Conſcqucats of it. See vor, 24, Ge. 22 And he informed me, and talked with me, and ſaid, O Daniel, I am now come forth + to give thee $111 + Heb. 1 and underſtanding d. me
4 That is, to make thee know great and ſecret things concerning _ of the City and Santiuary of Ferujalem, of the rebuildicg of it, and of Peanding
the Meſſiah, &c,
23 At the beginning of thy ſupplications the - com- + Heb. mandment came forth e, and I am come to ſhew thee : for 994. thou art + greatly beloved f : therefore underſtand the T H*. ©
matter, and conſider the viſion. ny e This thing was decreed before in God's Counſel, but not divulged, Ch. 10, 12 or ordered to be proclaimed till Daniel petitioned. f Heb. A Man of 19,
deſires, i, e. dear to God, Luke 1. 28.
24 Seventy weeks g are determined vpon thy peo- ple, and upon thy holy city h, || ro finiſh the tranſpreſ- || Or, t tion, and || to make an end of fins, and to make recon- iran ciliation for iniquity 7, and to bring in everlaſting righ- | Or, ſeed teouſneſs k, and to ſeal up the viſion and + propheſie / 4Heb.pro- and to anoint the moſt holy m7, | : pher,
8 Theſe Weeks are Weeks of Days, and theſe Days are ſo many Years: though neither Days, nor Mont%s, nor Years are expreſſed ( which makes it ſomewhat the more obſcure ) but Weeks only. Ic IS yet plain and obvious, that the Angel uſeth the Number Seventy to ſhew the Fayour of God towards them,that they mig ht have ſo much Liberty and Joy as their ſeventyYears Bondage and >ufferings amount= ed to. Yet was this but a Type of the time of Grace which was to follow after by the coming of Chriſt. þ Why doth he call them Da- niel's Feople. 1. Becauſe they were his by Nation, Blood, Laws and Profefſion. 2, Thine becauſe thou doſt own them, and art fo ten- der of them, and ſo zealous for them. # Note, the Angel diſco- vers firſt the Diſeaſe in three ſeveral Words, FANUN TY 12U9 +
Peſhang, Gnavon, Chataoth, which contain all ſorts of Sin, which the Meſſiah ſhould free us from by his full R edemption. See Exod.34.6,7. Matth, 1. 21. viz. original, a&ual, of Ignorance, Preſumption, &c, alſo both Fault and Puniſhment, which we may prove by Scrip- ture. 2. The Angel ſhews us alſo the Cure of this Diſeaſe in three Words, le callee, Ie chatem, le capper; 1. To finiſh Tran;greſſion. 2, To make an end of Sin. 3. To make Reconciliation, All which Words are very ſignificant in the Original, and ſignify to pardon to blot out, mortify, expiate, k #.e. To bring in Juſtification by the free Grace of God in Jeſus Chrift, the Lord our Righteouſneſs, Jſa. 53.6. Fer.23. 6. and 33. 16. 1 Cor, 1. 30, Called everlaſting, becauſe Chrift is eters nal,and he and his Righteouſneſs is everlaſting, Chriſt brings this in, I, By his Merit. 2. By his Goſpel declaring it. 3. By Faith ap- plying, and ſealing it by the Holy Ghoit, 1 To abrogate the former Diſpenſation of the Law, to fulfil ir, and the Prophecies relating to Chrift ; and to confirm and rati'y the New Teftament or Goſpel-Co- venant of Grace, The Talmud faith, all the Propheſies of the Pro- phets related to Chriſt; m By which he alludes to the Holy of Holies which was anointed, Exod. 30. 25, to verſe 31. and 4o. from ver. g, to ver. 16. This typified the C hurch which is called anointed, 2 Cor, 1. 21, and Heaven into which Chriſt # entred, Heb. 8. 1, and 9.24. aad 10. *9, but chiefly Chriſt himſelf, who is the Holy One, As 3. 14. He received the Spirit without meaſure, Fobn 3.34. His humane Nature is therefore called be Temple, Fohn 2.19. and Tabernacle, Heb, 8.2. and 9. 11. Moreover, Chriſt is he that held the Law ( as the Ark did the two Tables ) by which the Will of God is revealed, he is the Proptriatory appeaſing God, the 7able that nouriſheth us,the Can- dleftick that enlightens, the Altar that ſan&ifies the Gift and Offering, All theſe were anointed and holy ; by this Word Anoinring, he alludes to his Name Meſſ14h and Chriſt, both which ſignify anointed, Chriſt was anointed at his firſt Conception, and Perſonal Union, Luke 1. 35. In his Bapriſm, Matth. 3. 17. to his three Offices by the holy Ghoft ; C 1.) Knp, Matth. 2. 2. ( 2. ) Propher, Tſa.61.1. ( 3. ) Prieft, ſal, 10. 4.
25 Know therefore and vnderſtand z, that from the | Or,
. feven going forth of the commandment ro reſtore and to7,,,c. ..,
build Jeruſalem , unto the Metliah che prince, ſhall be ;ceſcore || ſeven weeks 9; and threeſcore and two weeks the ſtreet aud mo - ſhall be built again, and the [|| wall, even Þ in-troublous w*#ts : c&e 7 (treer, Kc, tIMmes Pp: | & Gr,
n i.e. By deep Conſideration, upon a due ſearch of Reaſon, and +Hch ſhy comparing of thing*, and minding what the Angel ſaith. o From the ,eyry ind Publication of the Edi, whether of Cy7#s or Darius to reftore and þe byilr, to build, we ſhall ſee anon, p Noting the Enemy ſhould create them || gx much trouble in the building, and reparations of the Wall; City and ye2cþ gr Temple, which they did many ways, as we read in Nehemiah, which j;xcþ. the Spirit of God doth premoniſh them of, le!t they ſhould thinky feb, in this their chief Deliverance and Redem,tion. Thele fever Weeks are frgir of therefore mentioned by themſelves, and repeated no more, becaule;jnes, they contained the time of building the Wall, City and Temple of Feruſalzm, at the end of which ſeem to begin the ſixty two Weeks,
26 And after threeſcore and two weeks q ſhall Meſ-
i- er t] - Me fiah be cur off”, | bur not for hiniſelf s- and the peo- | dry ple of ithe prince that ſhall come #, ſhall deſtroy the ciry _—