particulnr person was indi<"nted, but rather cover aml protect some, while ho punlehea e.11 the leaders of the people of God; but the others. Those thus protpated o.re oe.lled the next clause seems to render the the little ones, the h umblo o.nd meek. relerence definite. The me.n the.t is my This reoa.lls Christ's words to hie disoiples, fellow. The worJ rendered "me.n" mee.ns "Fear not, little flook; for it is your mthN "mighty man;" that rendered Father's good plensure to give you the •·fellow" ooours often in Levitiou~, but kingdom" (Luke xii. 32). nowhere else (Lev. v. 21; vi. 2; xix. 11, 15, Ver. 8.-In e.11 the la.nd; i.e. Pnlestine, li, etc.), am! is usually tre.nslated "neigh- the country in whioh the good Shepherd bour; " il implies one united to e.nother by tended his flook (oh. x:i.), a.nd whioh ie e. the possession of common nature, rights, and figure of the kingdom of God (comp. oh. privileges. God could speak only of One xii. 12; xiv. 9, 10). •Two pe.rta therein sha.11 thus e.ssociated with himself, that is, of him be out o1f and die ; litemlly, the mouth, i.e. who could say, "l and my Father are One" the portion of two, as Deut. xxi. 17; 2 Kings (John x. 30). The term is variously trans- ii. 9, where it denotes the double portion le.led by the versions. Septuagint, • Av8pri inherited by the firstborn. The inherito.nce ,ro/1.irqv µov: Aquile., • Av~pa tnf µ~v/1.ov µou: is divided into three portions, of which two Vulgate, Virum coh:Erentem mi/ii. That the pa.rte are given over to death. Compare e. Shepherd is Messia.h is proved by Christ's simile.r 11,llotment in the case of the Moabites application of the following clause to himself (2 Se.m. viii. 2). The doomed portion is (Matt. xxvi. 31). Smite the Shepherd, and the supposed to represent the multitudes who sheep she.11 be scattered. When Christ was perished a.t the siege of Jerusalem.. This apprehended, all the fuciples forsook him ma.y be; but by ana.logy it stands for those e.nd fled (Me.tt. xxvi. 56); and what they did who shall not accept tile Messio.h or be ww; done by others. Even the faithful few purified by suffering, even as Christ ea.id, were scandalized at the cross. The com- "Many are ea.lied, but few ohosen" (Me.tt, ma.ncl, " Smite the Shepherd," like the xx:.16; comp. Ma.tt. iii. 12). The third, This apostrophe, "Awake, 0 11-word," shows that third part represents.the faithful among the it ww; God's purpose that was being there Jews (Rom. xi 5), and the Christian Church executed (see John xix. 11; Acts ii. 23). gathered out of a.11 nations (comp. Isa. vi; It is a.lso thns intimated that the dispersion 13; and especia.lly Ezek. v. 2, 12). of the Jews, e.nd their denationa.liziug, were Ver. 9.-Through the fire. This third results of this rejection and smiting of the pa.rt, like its Ma.star, passes through much Shepherd. This di,;persion is further ex:- tribulation, and is thereby refined and plaiued in vers. 8, 9, where it is shown that purified ( comp. Ps. I.xvi. 10; Tua. x:lviii 10; to some it will be ruin, to others ea.I vatiou. Jer. ix ..7; Dan. x:ii.10; Ma.l. iii. 3; 1 Pet. I will turn mine ha.nd. "To turn," or i. 6, 7). Ce.11 on my Name. In their distress " bring back the hand over," is used in a. they sha.11 turn in fa.ith to Jehova.h, e.s the good a.nd a bad sense ( comp. Isa.. i. 25 ; Amos covenant God, a very present Help in i. 8). There is a promise of comfort in the trouble (Isa.. lxv. 24), Thus is represented use of the phrll.BCI here. God'1 ha.nd sha.11 God's dealing with hill Ohuroh in every e.ge.
HOMILETICS. Ver. 1.-77.e end of sin. "In that day there shall be a fountain opened," etc. The close of the last chapter described certain persons as pouring forth " a fountain of tears" (J er. iL 1). This opens by describing a "fountain" of a different k_i:nd-a fountain opened for the especial benefit of those who thus mourned (comp. eh. x:u. 10). In this last-mentioned verse their grief is attributed to their looking on him" whom they had pierced." Remembering how distinctlr: th~s expression is _applied, in Joh_n xix. 37 to the death of Christ Jesue, we seem Justified m concluding th:tt there 1s a sirniliLr reforence here. According to this, therefore, the " fountain " of ver. 1 is a figurative description of that flow of blessi~gs V.:hich. co!Des from_ C~rist's cro~s; ~nd its "opening in that day" to the people descnbed 1s a s1m1lar d~scr1pt100; of their ~emg 1 then at last enabled to discover and partake of that flow. So 1 opened, what will be its results? Two principally, both of chief im~ortance, ~iz. an end of sin (1) in regard to iu; guilt; and ao end of sin (2) in reg~rd to its pollutw1:, . ... I. THE END OF ITS GUILT. Sin, as bemg the transgression of Law (1 Jouu lll. 4; v, 17; Rom. iv. 15; v. 13), involves the displeasure, and that inevitably, of the Lawgiver. If the La.w is worth enactino- it is worth enforcing. If not meant, indeed, to be eof,,rced, why was it ever p;;cl11,imed? 'l'he wiser, also the better, the holier, the on. XIII. 1-0.j TnE JlOOlt OF ZECUAllTAtl. 11!)