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Poole, Matthew, 1624-1679 • SECTION 431

Annotations upon the Holy Bible — Volume 2 — Section 431

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Chap. 1X. aad the ſanctuary, aud the end thereol ſh. be | Or, it flood; and unto the end of the war || defolations are de- Jas ce Of termine te, off hy de- q f. e. After the fexen before, and after the ſixty two that fol- JOINTS, lowed them, which all make up fixty nine, called by the Angel teventy Weeks, though no Week more be deſcrived, becauic it makes up the Number a round Number, after the Fewiſn manner of Calculation, and there migic be fome Fragments in the particular reckoning, to znake up the Sum; or it might be finiſhed in the 70th Week, and that was enough to call it 70 Weeks, viz. 24+ 7 The Word 7:52 tignifies cutting off, or cutting down as a Trec, //4. 44+ I 4. Fer. 10, 3» Secondly tis uled for cutting off by capital Pu- nithment, Exo./, 12. 15. and 30+ 32, 33. whether this be by the ſignal Hand of God, or by the Magiſtrate, for ſome hainons Ot- fence, Lev. 18. 29. and 20. 17. Pſal. 37. 34. This foreſhews that the Death of Chriſt ſhould be as of a condemned MalefaQtor ſentenced to Death, and that juſtly. So did the F-ws, Chriſt's Executioners, proclaim that he died for B7:ſphemy, anc that he was a deviliſh Impo- itor, Cc. Yea God himſelf charged Sin Upun him and the Cur{e, Iſa. 53+ 4. 2 Cora. wit, Gal, 24.33 | J'S) Which being abrupt 15 va rioully ;endred, and read ; ſome referring it to Chrift, and ſome to the ivoplo,and others to both,and all with very probable Conjettures, Pile 22. 6, 7. Ii. 52. 2. 7. nor rokim:;, There was none to ſuccour him ; 6: that they wonld none of him for their Meſſiah; they ſet him at novghe and would not have him live, and therefore he would not own them for his Veople, but caft them off ; for thus dying is exprel- {ed in ſhort nor to be, 'Thus Enoch, Gen. 5.24. Foſeph, Gen. 42 36. and Kache?'s Children, Fer. 31. 15, Matth, 2. 17,13. But our Engliſh 'Tranflation ſeems to hit the trucſt Senſe, i.e. 20t for himſelf. He was 1n- cent and guiltleſs ; he died for others, 'not for himſelf, but for our Sakes and for our Salvation. #t The Romans under the Condutt of Ti- tus Veſpaſianus. u God hath decreed to deſtroy that Place and People, by the Miſeries and Deſolations 07 War, 7, e. Sword, Famine, vick- nels, Scattering. All this is fignitic: by Skowzmorp: allo the protaning of the Temple by Idels, which are called Abomznations that make de- ſolate 3 this was done by the Grecks and Jews before, and the Romans at their Seige and after. Queſt, But fume will query, why the Angel who was ſent to comfort Danzel, ſhould inſert here this tragical Butt- nels of Deſtruction and Deſolation, being beyond the Space of ſeventy Weeks? Arſw. 1, That Dantel might be informed of the Judgments of God upon that Place and People, and the Reaſons of it, viz. their rejefting and killing Chriſt, 2. That the Spirtt of God's People ſhould not fail, wheu theſe Tragedies were acted, being foretold 3 thereby they were prepared and fortified againſt it, and ro expett it, and not to be ſurprized by it when it came,

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