Zeph. 1. 8. let. t. of Vengeance, Foel 2. 1, 2. cometh, haſteth, or will ſoon overtake you, O fintul, unthanktul, bloody Jews, who firſt de- ſpiſed, and next murder'd the Meſfiah. c All chou haſt, O Feruſa- lem, ſhall become a Prey to thine Enemy. d Thy conquering Ene- mies ſhall be ſuch abſojute Mafters of thee, that in greateſt ſecurity they ſhall divide among themſelves what they take from thee, in the very place where they take it z Jeruſalem is their on, and all in it, and where they find their own they will take it, ſo they reckon,
2 For e I will gather all nations g againſt Jeruſa-
1346, lem to battel þ, and the ciry ſhall be taken z, and * the houſes rifled #, and the women raviſhed /, and half of
the city 2 ſhall go forth into captivity, and the reſidue |
of the people z ſhall wot be cut oft from the city o.
e This gives not the Reaſon why,but introduceth an Account how this ching ſhall be done. f God will ſummon and bring together his Army ; they do it themſelves by their own Counſels, for their own Works and Ends 3 God alſo hath his Work for them to do, and by his Counſel, and at his Call they ſhall come. g The Romans, with the Power of their Empire, which at thar time had the Rule oyer all the known World,or over all the Nations of that part of the World. hTo make War with the Jews which laſted ſome Years, and coſt ma- ny thouſand Lives, and ended at laſt as our Prophet foretold. 7 By Aſſault and Force, whereby all lay at the Mercy of the Souldiers, who ſhew'd little to thoſe who firſt refuſed the Mercy of their God; and being juſtly given up by God to their own blind obſtinare Wills, re- fuſed the Mercy of their Enemy alſo. kh All Houſes pillaged, and all inthem worth taking was taken away. { Wives, Widows, and Vir- gins, barbarouſly violated. m A certain Part for uncertain, or in common Speech, many 3 were it one half preciſely, it would be but a ſixth Part of what were before the Wars, two thirds being cut off, as ch, 13, 8. and one third remaining, of which one half is for Capti- vity. n That ſmall Number of the Jews, which fled to Pella, and who were ſpared by Titus. 0 Literally were not forbidden to dwell | In or about the City, myſtically were not cut off from the Church, | tor ceaſed to be a Church this is the more likely, for Titus utterly ruin'd the City.
gainſt thoſe nations 7; battel s.
Þ After thar he hath ſufficiently puniſhed Feruſalem and the reſt of the Jews. q Out of his holy Place ( ſpoken after the manner of Men ) as a Warrjour prepared for Battel. r Which had ſack'd Feruſa- lem, and oppreſs'd his People. s As in any of thoſe Days paſt, when God fought for his People, and gave them great ViRories.
4 T And his feer ſhall ſtand in that day upon the mount of Olives 7, which zs before Jeruſalem on the eaſt zz, and the mount of Olives ſhall cleave in the midſt
ag when he fought in the day of
3 Then p ſhall the LORD £o forth 9, and fight a-
fly to ſome place of ſafery and repoſe z you will fly the Valley it ſelf which God maketh. By terrible things in Righteouſneſs doth God an- ſwer, and his People tremble before him when he cometh to fave them; ſo hereare repreſented tous a People wonderfully ſaved, and aſtoniſhed at the Methods of it. God makes Vallcys in the midft of Mountains, and they (for whoſe Good they are made) fly thoſe Val- leys. So the words were better read, our Marginal Readings, and the Gallick Verſion, do ſo read it. c Or although, or nit withſtand- ing, this Valley reach to Axal, which ſpeaks, ſay ſome, a ſeparate Place, 7.e. provided of God for their ſatety, a. Zoar for Lot, or Pella tor the Citizens of Feruſalem. They ſhall, as is uſual in great Frights and Conſternation of Mind, not fee how ſafe they are, or whither to go, but ſome will run for a while from or beyond their Refuge. d This was ſome dreadful Earthquake, and put the People into a mighty Fear,. and made them fly in all haſte, 'tis mentioned Amos 1. I. and the Prophet tells us, that when God ſhakes the King- doms of his Enemies, to make a plain and leyel Way for his ranſom'd ones, it ſhalt make rhem fly for Fear too. e As thus rendred it gives Reaſon of this Commotion of Mind, and this hafty Flight. But it would be plainer if it were as it may be ( I think ) read. And, or,
yet O Lord my God come, and bring all the Saints with thee. As if 'twere
ſaid, Though "twill, O Lord, put us into ſuch Fears; yet without ſuch wonderful Works, we ſhall not haye our Hopes, nor ſee thy Sal- vation; therefore, O- Lord my God, come, and bring thy Saints, holy Ones, Angels with thee; and ſo will this be like that of St. John, Rev. 22.20. ſhutcing up the Viſions of the New Heaven, and the New Earth,and the Appendages of them with, Come Lord Feſus. s And it ſhall come to paſs in that day f, zbat the +
light 2 ſhall nor be # clear þ, nor F dark 7. Heb. f Whilſt God is fighting with the Enemies of his Church, the Na- P7*c2#s-
tions that fought againſt Feruſalem. g Good Eſtate, Peace and Wel- h; mw fare. h Unmix'd Good,all Light, 'twillnot be ſo well with the Church, thickneſs, { Not ſo ſad as all Darkneſs, there ſhall be a Temper ct both, ſome Peace with ſome Trouble ; ſome Proſperity with ſome Adverſity ; ſome Mercy in the midft of Judgment to allay the bitterncls of Judgment, and ſome Judgment with our Mercy to allay its {veerneſs,
[ Or, tho
7 But|| it ſhall be * one day & which ſhall be known unto the LORD /, not day, nor night : bur ir ſhall come ,,,,
to paſs that at * evening-time 2 it ſhall be light 7. *Rev.22. 5, þ One continued Day,no ſetting of the Sun to make it quite Night ; *ifa 60.19. God will always a& in order to the full Salvation of his ſpiritual Rev.21.23- Feruſalem. | The Lord knows when it ſhall begin, how long laſt and how,and when it ſhall (not as other Days end in a Night, but) ead 1n glorious Light) till then *ris enough for us that our God knows tins Day that is mix'd of Trouble and of Peace. m When other Days end. n This ſhall be all Light and Glory, 1/z. 58.8. Fſal. $7. it. : $ And it ſhall be in that day o, that living * waters p Ws] oel 3.18, ſhall go out 9 from Jeruſalem 7 : half of them toward ***" *** ** the || | iden {ea s, and half of them toward the hinder {Or, e.:iern
day ſtall be
tereof x toward the eaſt, and toward the weſt, and iere ſhall be a very great valley y; and half of the |
ſea t : in ſummer and in winter ſhall it be z.
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valley of the