Promifes of the Meftan Vindicated 47 of the Potterity ofJacob continuing a difliné} Church and people for thole Ends for which they were originally feparated from all others, and this being the ffrji place wherein it is ufed, and which all the rest refer unto, the Paraphrji here took oc- cation both tomention the Meßiah of whore time of coming this was to be the con- fiant defcriptiou, as alto to intimate the Reafon of the frequent ufe of this Exprefli- on ; which was becaufe the precifé time of his coming was hidden even from the belt of the Prophets, unto whom the Glory' of the Divine Majelty was in other things re- vealed. Eefides the enfuing Predillions in the. Chapter do fufhciently fecure application ofthe dayesmentioned, unto the timeof the Meßiah. Gen. 49. V. to. n4+w tZ1+ +7 7y, untill. Shiloh come. All the three Targums agree in 4. 6, the Application of Mete words unto the Mefsiah. Onjelos; tin= dl+il 1p, untill Meßiah comes. 5eonathan andHierufakm ufe the fame words; tsrnwrt N750 +f1Pl jai ly unto the time wherein theKingMeßiahJhall come. An illutinousProphefie this is con- cerninghim ; the firft that limits the time of his coming, with an expree circum- ffance, and which mull therefore afterwards be at large Unified 'on. At prefent it may fuffice to remark the fuffrage of theft Targúms againfi the perverfnefs of their later Mailers, who contend by .all Artifices imaginable, to pervert this Text unto other purpofes; who are therefore to be preffed with the Authority of the Targu miilts, which with none of their cavilling exceptions they can evade. The follow- ing words alfo v. a I, 12. are applied by Jonathan unto the Meßiah in the purfuit of the former Prediétion, and that not unfitly, as hails been¡hewed by others already. See Aynlíverth on the place. Exod. 12. V. 42. It is a night muchto be obferveh. Hierufal. Targ. This is the fourth §.7. night, (it had mentioned threebefore ) when the End of this prefent world£hall be ac- complifbed to be diihived, and the Cords, of impietyJhall be wafted, and the Iron Take Jhall be broken; that is, the people of God (hall be delivered ; whereunto is ad- ded; NO11 11 To tr s± 1 2311^0 1,1 i'C 71+ rtr Mitts Jball comefirthfrom the midded of the Il ildernfl, and the King Mefsiah from the middellof Rome. That of c;eMeßiali caning out of Rome is Tu!ntudica, depending on a Fable which wefhall afterwardsgive an account of. And we may here, once for all obferve,that although they believe that their Meßiah is tobe ameet man, bornafter the manner ofall other men,yet they never fpeak ofhis Birthor Nativity, as a thing that riey looked for ; only theyfpeak of his coming, but moll commouly.ofhis being revealed, and theirgreat expedtation is, whenhe¡hall be difoveredand revealed: And this proceedeth out ofa fecret felf-convieti- on, that he was born long fince, even at the time promifedandappointed; only that he is hiddenfrom them,as indeed he is, though not inthe fen¡ by them imagined. Bat what .makes theApplication of the night of the Pafover to thecoming ofthe Meßiah ? They cannot imagine that he fhall come unto themwhile(t they are celebrating that Ordi- nance; for that is not lawfull for them, unlefs they were at Jerufalem, whither they believe they (hall never return untill he come and go before them. It is thenfrom fome Traditionamongft them, that their Deliverance out of 'Egypt was aType ofthe Deliverance by theMeßiah, whole Sacrifice and ftttferiugwas reprefentedin the Pafehal Lamb,.which gave occafionunto this Glofs. Exod. 4ç. v.9. Targum ofJonathan ; Thou /halt fanflifte it fir the Crown ofthe King- §.t. dom of the, houfé of Judah ; 23+Dt+ 4pon 7 1W' I1+ pl9Dh itrw, tsrnws 2174201, and the King Meßiah who(hall deliver ifrael in the End of the Dayes.. The end of the Tinclioa there mentioned in the Text, is that the things anointed might be n+tv1p unp, holineß of holinzes, unto the Lord. Now it was the Meßiah alone who truly and really was thismolt Holy One, Dan. 9. v. 24. t nolia vtij nton5, to an- noint, or to hake Meßiah, of the Holineß of Holine./jes, the molt Holy One, as he is called inthe New Teftament, i áy,& theHoly One 44' ÉÇoxiir, Atïr 3, 14. Chap. 4. v. 3o. 1P/in 2. 20. Revel. 3.y.7. And hence, as it Mould Teem, is this place ap- plyed unto him by the Targumiil ; and an intimation given, that in all their Holy things, their Tabernacle, Sonbivary and Altar, he was reprefented; for as he was the molt holy, and his body the Temple wherein the fulneß of the Godhead dwelt, Col. 2. v. 9. fo intimacy b, yiyit, he Tabernacled amongft us; John I. v. 14. And is our Al- ear, Heb. 13. v. I. Numb. I1. v.26. But there remained two of the men in the Camp, the name of the one 4, 90. woeEldad, and the name of the other was Medad, and the Spirit` re¡led upon them (and they were of the men that were written, but went not out unto the Tabernacle) and they Prophefied in the Camp. Here feemeth not to be any thing immediately relating.unto' Q the
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