Nj by II I 144, the ¶romifed Me f iah long fince come. thefe words' r s,llhal n0, from between his feet; expreffing as he conceived the pofture of Difeiples, By Judah, he'underftands the Houfe of David , the Ruling Family amonglt them, the Authority whereof was preferved in the nttha tW 1, or Heads of the Captivity whileft they were in Babel ; And on thefe words , Mitt) v N39-17-111), waving. all the former trivial exception's, he adds exprefly 77170runrutu0rl ßh0 77t3 íu1101 D17p7t3" toxin j]t +htu , Vntill the Shilo come, that is Meffiab the King, to whom that Kingdoms belongs, as the words are interpreted by Onkelos in his Targum, and in Midrafh Agadah, and 01017 nrp1, he expounds 1=10yr 1+ n9+Dtt, the colleilion or gathering together of the people fo agreeing with the. Targum , and the the truth in the molt material pa(fages -ofthe Text. g, 6. But Aben Ezra, aswe obferved, is otherwife minded ; and in him , we have air example of the wilful! blindnefs of the refidue' of them , who will not endure the light of that Convi&ion which is tendered unto them in this Teftimony. Firft, By Shebet, he grants Rule io be intended , or'preheminençe above others, being then fomewhat more modeft then their latter Matters. This faith he, (hall not depart from `Judah, irt 5W li) until David come 5 andwhyDavid?fl1 1 rm'w.nhnn 1nw for he was the beginning of the Kingdom of Judah. So that-it Teems the meaningof the words is, that theScepterPallnot depart, u_ ntill the Scepter come; that is, they (hould have rule, untill they had rule ; For as himfeif well obferves, the Kingdomof Judah began in David. -But what Scepter had the Houfè of Judah before? Four hundred years the peo- ple were ruled under Judges, ofwhich but one was of that Tribe. At length a Kingdom was fit up in the Houle of Benjamin ; wherewas all this while the Scepter ofJudah,lfthat was the fpace of time deigned for its continuance ? Two inflances he gives hereof. Firtt, rutturria 9D17 miry , The Standard of Judahmarched firft in the Wilderneff; ;lhnn3 r1`1v1 mum =tort 1eí3 01, Again, God faid, Judah fhall go up firJt. But what was this to a Scepter and a. Law-giver ? The firft belonged only unto the order of the Tribes in the Wildernefs, whileft Mofes was Prince of ,the Tribe of Levi, and af- terwards Jojhua of the Tribe of Ephraim nor was that priviledge, if any it were, peculiar unto Judah, but common to the other Tribes joyned with him. The. other was only an occafionalExpedition, wherein the" efpecial concernment ofJudah lay ; whichgave him no power not Soveraignty among(t his Brethren. So that we have here no fmall inttance, how the/AO of their Matters do befool themfelves, in feekïng evafions from this Teftimony. Of the fence of the following words , ab(ira- . ting from the defign ofthe whole, he gives a tolerable account, Nor a Law-giver from between hi,s feet. 197 hÿ print) lot) ppn0, Mechochek is a Scribe, who éngroth any thing on a Roll or Books, 'kph 1711 113 3í1)11 nt17h 19ro h7 Ili í7w 117x1 T'70 O1,71.01 and that expreffton offrom between his fret, is taken from the common cuftám of !rob Scribes, to fit at, or between she feet of the Prince; namely, to record and enroll the Laws ofhis Kingdom. Although the phrafe of fpeech feems to encline to another. fenfe, but about thiswe will not differ withhim. f. 7. He next proceeds to the interpretation of the word Shilo, which before he applyed unto David ; and to thew theuncertainty and wandrings of all them who rejeEt the true and only intendmentof the Holy Ghoft in this exprefsion, he gives us the vari- ous opinions of his Majters, not knowing himfelf what toadhere unto. O'leT W' ; fume, befayes, there are who interpret it from the Syriack, as it were as much, as 17íD unti him, orcujus omnia. But this yields him no advantage, Sundry learnedmen fufpeâ fame fach fettle' in the word, or derivation of it ; n being put for 1; and the Tranflation of the LXX. reading r 6/74M17di, Items to have had refpeFt thereunto. But then the Meffiah is frgnallydenoted; whofe the Kingdomwas; whom thePromifes efpecially refpeáted,ai 4wó whom the gathering of the people was to be. Some, he adds, derive it from , which fignihes the Embrio in the Womb; and in allufion hereuntomany interpret the word his Son; from -71ív, which is as much as p, from i1'hv7 the fecund Birth, or certain Membranesof the Womb : and he adds afterwards, that n7uv, may be as much as 1./3 ; r being put for 1. But yetníeither. can he hence obtain any thingtowards his defign. Wherefore; he pro- ceeds, fome expound it of the City Shilo, and then they interpret, 1.113.1 (hall come, Wean t33 10D, as that, the Sun cometo; that is,Jets, or goes down, Ecelef:4. that is, r hw untill the end of Shilo come ; for fo it is written, he rejetted the Tabernacle at Shilo; and chofe David' his firvant. But it is evident unto all' who IA the leali attention untothefe things, how forced, indeed foolijh this Expofition is : until! Shilo come; that is, until! the City Shilo be deferred, or forfaken, or deftroyed ; fo that,
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