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Poole, Matthew, 1624-1679 • SECTION 724

Annotations upon the Holy Bible — Volume 2 — Section 724

← Matthew Poole — Annotations upon the Holy Bible — Volume 2

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one Adircaitn 5 there t> a @ toil, as well as a Divine Worfhip ; \i in Divice Wertlip, tac Puitcion of the Creature before us, ny Me ineerly for Convemency, or Accidental : Bur all Pro im in an AR of Divine Worthip, 1s a Pojture of Adoration 3 4 where 2 Creature is choſen, and ler before vs in that Act or | TH excites Or moye us, Ic partakerh of che Homage. There

ame little difference berivixe the Words, Deut. 6. 13. and 19.20. an] choſe of Sc. Jorivew 5, LN thar 15 {aid co be written, which 15 wHIICN 38 TO the Subſtance and Sente, tho' not IN mole Terms, es ti {haſt Fer 5, as Matthew QUOTCS 1C, IT 15, 104 ſhalt 1.7%, The Term Fear, applied unto Ged, figmifterh any Act ef PUlizion, Wwhecher Extein.s Or Internal ; and tho' the laſt words in Dencerommy | Thou ſh. It fear by bis Name ] be nor men- roncd in Avtthew, yer enough are quored for our Savicur's Fling down and 1Jkipping, beiongeth cnly to God, 2T ©o tice ; ler me theretcre hear of thee

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;1 Then the Devilleaverh him, and bzhold Angels c:xmeand minifired unto him.

rf the Devil, faich James, ch. 4. 7. and he ſhall flee from \, Tius he did from che Head ; thus he ſhall do trem the Mcmbers : bur as he,did not flee trom Chriſt, till Commanded awav, 1 neither oi Commanded off by God doth he leave the Pcople of God ; bur upon our refiitance, God will Command him off, that we may not be Tempred above our ſtrength. The ul nel leaving ham, the Good Angels came and minifired unto ms wacther by brinzing him Food, or bringing him off rhe Moutr, or otherivife Executing his Commands, 1s not exprefied, 1nd ir is roo much Curioſity to inquire. God by this teacherh us, [!4r our Lives are to have heir Vicithrudes of Temprarions, and Con{vlations ; and that our Temprartions ſhall have an happy Itlue ; and char when ordinary means tail, we may expeft extraordinary lacfuences, and Atfiſtances. Luke faith, he departed from him for 2 Seaſn ; To ler us know, that rho' here was an end of his more Eminent Temprations, yer he was not afterward withour Saran's Atavlits.

12 * Now when Teſus had heard that John was

F | caſt into Priſon, he departed into Galilee :

7-bn was ſome time after this caſt into Priſon, for his free re-

., proving /zrzd Antipas, the T?trarch of Galilee, for taking Herodias : its Brother Philip's Wite, and other Evils, Chap. 14. 3, 4. Mar. 6.

17. Ink, 3. 19, 20. Feſws heard of this Accident, and departed inn Galifce, There were many things happened berwixt Chriſt's Tvnptutions, and this his Motion into Galilee, which are omitted by wi che Evangeliſts, except 7b, and by him recorded in his four tt Chuprers, Neither by Galilee, we muſt underftand the Nether ilvg, which was within the Furiſdidtion of Herod ;, but the Upper ir1/1;eo, called Galilee of the Gentiles, v. 15. 1n the Borders of Ze- i472 and Nepthali, which was in che Furiſdidiom of Philip, a Man ot a lcts Bloody Difpofition. Ochers make ic under Herod's 7uriſ- 7;;n; bur where the Phariſees had leſs ro do than in Fudez. Our $,viour doth not cur of Cowardice avoid Danger ; bur he knew is time was not ver come. Bur fome Judiciovs Interpreters think that our Saviour firſt went into the Lower Galilce, and from thence 1591 atrer into rhe Upper Galilee : Thar which makes chis more probable, is the nexr words 3 And leaving Nazareth, he came and Swolt in Capernanms ſoas ic ſhould ſeem, he firſt went ro Nzzareth,

which was 1n the Lower Galilee.

2 And leaving Nazareth.he came and dwelr in Ca-

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p:rnium, which is upon the Sea-coafſt, in the Borders oi /ebulon 3nd Nepthalim, |

By this ( as was faid betore ) ir ſhould ſeem thar our Lord firſt went 1ne9 the Nether Galiles, where Nazareth was, which atrer a me, he lett and went to Copern um, Wwhanch Capernaum was a City near the Sea, in the Borders of Zebzl-n and Nepthali, whoſe Lots 12 Land of Canazn, were contiguous, and by the Sea-fide, as «ppeareti by 7oſhits 19,

14. That it might be fulfilled, which was ſpoken by te Pronher Eſaias. ſaying,

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. [5 The land of Zebvlon, and the land of Neptha- Mm, by the way of the Sca, bzyond Jordan, Galilee of tle (zentiles. P

. 16 The People which fate in darkneſs, ſaw great att, and to them which fare in the Region, and tha- $9W or death, light 15 ſprung up.

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tin Haigh 15, C24Þ. 9, 1,2, where the Words are, N-wer- Re, v Dimnjs thall 157 be fuch as was in her Vexatim, when at "jt he lightly -offlifed the Land of Zebulon, and the Land of No that; : and oft376 i+d did mnre grievouſly offict her by the way 122 121 bryond Fra en, in Galilee of the Nations. The People tha

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Jews make a great many Objections againſt the Application of this

Texc unto Chriſt, ( as indeed they do againſt the Application of

all Texts cired our of the Old Teſtament by the Evanzclitts, Chriſtians believing thar the Evangeliſts beins Holy Men, vcho wrote not Ircm a private Spiric, private Interpretations, have not any reaton to regard} whas their [nrereſt leaderh them to ob- jeft : Bur even Chriſtian, Incerpreters are divided in their Senti- ments, whether thete words are ſaid to be fulfilled, in this Ma- tion of Chriſt unto Galilee, in a Literal or Typic.l, cr 4 more 5/u- proper and Ana/;giczl Senſe; nor 1s 1t any great manter with whict!:

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