'0 It was the Month Niſan, which is March, p This 77iddetel i Tigr#, Which was a great Branch of Euphrates ; the Prophets had mai of their Viſions by Rivers. |
5 Then I lift up mine eyes and looked, and behold 4 +a certain man y clothed in linen, whoſe loins mw!" girded with fine gold of Uphaz s -
q He beheld wiſhly and with a compoſed Mind. 7 Which Ma ſome will have an Ange), either Gabriel, who appeared to him befor, or Michael chief among, the Angels, Fude g. or Archangel, who is met- tioned after. Or rather Chriſt, who was true Man. 1+ He appeati to Daniel m Royal and Prieſtly Robes, which was not proper ior a Angel. 2. He appeared in ſo great Brightneſs and Majeſty, whi made Dantel aſtonied, and laid him proſtrate. 3. Compare i place with Dan. 13. 6,7. and you find him the ſame as here,revealia; the Secrets of times, and of God's Providence towards his Chut, which is Chriſt.” s Sec Rev. I. 13, 14, 15, 16, 17. where the Lo Jeſus Chriſt is. deſcribed as here in Dantel,and for the ſame end, Nv# he appeared thus (before his Incarnation} in the Old Teſtamei 5 a Preludium of ir, as the beſc Expotitors grant it. By this appeati% the Lord Chriſt. held out clearly his three Offices of King, Prieif 2: Prophet. 'Fhe girding of Loins ſignifies his readineſs to obey Commands, and do the Work of his Father ; beſides the Ornas ot the curious golden Girdle.
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