Annotations upon the Holy Bible — Volume 2 — Section 446

; . | ; TN "WF great Prince which || ſtanderh for the Children | pliſhed ro ſcatter the power of the holy people, all SP) 7 of thy Peopleb, and there ſhall be a time of trouble, [theſe things ſhall be finiſhed 9. 4 0, & fch as never was fince there was a Nation, even tO that | # Here he calls Gd to witneſs the Truth of this thing ; many Reas may: os 2» ome time: And at that time thy People ſhall be deli- | ſons are given by ſundry Expoliters of it, why ke held up both Hands hy i ey - that ſhall be found written c*in the to Herwen, 1+ For the more lure and ſolemn confirmation of it, . Ya y & vered, every One 7: 2. To denote the Unchangeableneſs of God's Decre:s both for Good | FRY | My Book. ; : Cup | ts the Church, and for evil to our Enemies. o By God the Father, 14 bot Ind 2. bMany interpret this of the Heat of Antiochus his Perſecution, but tht liveth for- ever, to ſhew the Eternal God that decreed ir only 136-88) | * 3« their Arguments are not cogent z but the meaning is this; As after ihe | k:1ew, and would briog it to paſs, that he cnly is Maſter o: the Times, WH a0 al. Death of Antiochuthe Fews had ſome Deliverance and Reſpite, lo there | 42, 1,5, » It ſhall be for a longtime and yet a definite Time. Some ' :4TIRE 1 k ? will be yet a more famous Deliverance to the People of God when 7- | win have all this to be and end in Antiochus's time, but we have pro- FF Fa S. c<ae) your Prince, #. e. Meſſiah the Prince, ſhall ſignally appear for your | ye pefore, that this is a great Miſtake, and the Text and this Chaps he ye, 3 Salvation. He is called the great Prince, but theſe Words in their Con- | tex gjfprove thar Conceir. 4 Which reacheth t5 the calling of the Ne _ v texture refer not to the Times of Anrzochus, but to Amichriſt, and tO | Jews upon the Deftruftion of Anticbrift, for till he be down the Church Wt \ why that Part of them which are the laftPart. Yet I think the trueſt Mean- | will ſuffer,and will not be up,which will fall out upon the pouring out | 118 14; ing is to interpret theſe Words, at that time, of all the time of Chrift, | the ſixth Vial, and after, Rev. 16. 17, &c. and the ſeventh Vial; them LE ds, "Tk from his firſt coming to the laſt. Theſe all are the laſt times wherein | all js finiſhed, ver. 17. See alſo 2 Theſſ. 2. 3» The Judgment of Ih #1 cr God ſpake to us by his Son, Heb. I. I, 2, 3. to which the Name Mt- Chriſt will not come, till the Man of Sin come and fall. is) |: £7 _ —_— - nary ent ans 6 ——— 38 And I heard, but I underſtood not : then faid T, "8 | wit * 2. ©o was ne Fl 4 > B. 2 + \? "7 ke Prince tO comfort his People againft the Opprefſion of Herod, and the _ OREY m_ ſhall ” ug : Sanyo —_ WE 1 "= Be 2 3 = Fomars, by bringing in a glorious Salvation, which ſhould wholly free "bs &, What 1s the Meaning of all this, of tne c Is, ya yo balf, | &" 4 the EleR /ſr2e! of God from the Roman Yoke, both under the perſe- ks wy wu begin :nd end, and when the opp the Churches, and Wh! ts cnting Emperors, and under Antichriſt, c Thus this Fle#ion is called, TE IE 0g of the Church ſhall have —_——— al ts by a Meraphor uſual in Scripture, and drawn from the Uſage of Menin | 9 And he faid, Go thy way, Daniel : for * the words »WÞ5 ir many caſes, namely, writing ſome ſelett Mens Names in a Book; ſhew- | are cloſed up, and ſealed till the time of the end s. mm, 5 ing that this Salvation ſhall not be National, neither to Fews nor any | $ They ſhall not be clearly underſtood till the event make them "8 of Gentile Nation, but only a gathering together of the Ele& of God, | 2004; ſee ver. g. of this Chapter, and Chap. 8. 26, God is choice in ot 6, which are ſcattered abroad ; called theretore a Remnant, Rom. 9g. keeping the Keys of Time at his own Girdle, As 1. 7. ] 15h Hl X 2 And many of them that ſleep in the Duſt of the | 1o * Many ſhall be purified and made white and * Ch. 1. Fl | ly Earth ſhall awake, * ſome to everlaſting Life, and ſome [tried t - but the wicked ſhall do wickedly : and none 35: Wu. - ori to Shame and everlaiting Contempt c. of the wicked ſhall underſtand, but the wiſe ſhall un- Zech, 13s vl L E: c So enamour'd are ſome of thcir Notions, though Fong _ and | Jerſtand u . 3 Fr ill-grounded, that they will pertinacicutly hold them, and ſleek till to * RMS NCR w ll ed i prove one Abſurdity from another, as Grot1us doth here, ftill ex- = ot 099 4 mT» gle dlands 3. = 11" WAR zl pounding all of Antiochus, and ſo makes this Reſurrettion Merapborica), |... Eggs gow ! Gat ; J P 1 Silver (of BA We and not the real ultimate one ; whereas the moſt learned Fews them- —_ ira ne Filth, on: 2: h ” they EDT = | 9 X . . . { . 5 the os Nh againft him, as the late Manaſſch Ben Jſrae!, in his Book de | ye they do, viz. they ſhall not be bettered by the Word or Rod, or $0 Aron ; : : any Warnings of God, but be hardned to their Ruine 3 but the Godly ” 3 And they that be[] wiſe ſhall * ſhine as the bright- ſhall be taught of God to underſtand the ways of God's Providence, . hes of the” Finer d, an d th ey that turn many to foretold by _ Prophets: for this 15 1t they w_ —_— _— of, _ | righteouſneſs e 2s the Stars for ever and ever f. commended tor, particularly in this kind oft Wildom ; 1. becauic it the { Here the Faithful are called wiſe, i.e. t0 poetry © ſo theſe - — Pon _ _—_ are concerned greatly to know NF 4 two Members include Teachers, and Diſciples that are truly taught the Y " I f ———__ rho ail . *Ch.3.12 Me way of Salvation, 7. &. ſuch as are taught of God to learn Chriſt as the |, 17 And from the time that * the daily ſacrifice ſhall * Ch. 11. "th Truth is in Jeſus, Fohn 6.45. Eph.4. 21. & They that teach true Ju- | be taken away *, and - the abomination that || maketh F Heb. 79 nt0 t>fication by the Righteouſneſs of Chriſt imputed, which is the Sum of | deſolate ſet up, there ſhall be a thouſand two hundred/; as thngo*-42 the Go'pel, and expreſs it by righteous Walking, they ſhall have high | and ninety days. poker it be Degrees of Glory. f By being diligent and faichfui Inftruments of the : . 5 Ou eh Lord's Hand ( by the Word of God, and a holy Example) of the Con- 12 Bleſſed is he that waiteth, and cometh to the [| Or. aſtg- a verſion of Sonis from an evil State, from an evil Heart, and from an | *houſand three hundred and five and thirty days x- nijperhs dif evil Life, unto God, they ſhall ſhine, not in Fame for a long time, as | * Theſe Days are either natural Days, and properly ſo called, and fo now Grotizs lamely renders it, but for ever and ever in heavenly Glory, as | the Times of Antiochus are hereby noted. Or, 2. Propherical Days, a ding the Words import. Day for a Year, Exek. 4. 6, and thus 12g0 Days are 42 Months, which if we multiply at 30 Days to the Month, make the Sum 1290. Here