12 The' Promifed Mefiah long fnce corne. bcrcj(Eted: Although Mercer pronounce it to be againfi the rule ofGrammar; for we' know they hold not alway.es in things myfterious. He that would be further fatisfied about the importance of the word, may confult Heymanlui.,Porchetus and Galatinus in their Difcourfes again¡ the Jews on this fìtbjedts Kïmcbi, Pagnin; Mercer, Schindler; Philip ab Aquino, and Buxtorf in their Lexicons; Munger, F'agius,, Drufiur, Grotitu in their Annetatisns on theText ; Helvictts, Rivet, Epifeopites, Boetins, Hornebecke in their Difcourfes from it. The weight of our Argument lyes not in the precife fignificati- onof the word : TheMeffiah it is who'' is intended in that expreflion. ss. 29. For firft, this is manifefi from the Context andwords themfelves. Thepromifc of the Mefah was the foundation of that Nation and people ; the reafon of the Call of Abraham, and ofthe ereEtionof a Kingdom and a State in his pofierity. This we . have elfwhere demonftrated. This promifc concerning him , and Covenant in him, was alwayes the chiefmatter and head of the Patriarchal Benediaions, when theyblared their Childrenand poflerity. Now unlefs we grant him tobe intended in this expref. fion, there isno mention of him at allin this Prophetical Eislogie of' aeob. Betides; his pofterity being now to bediftributed into twelve diftinEt Tribes ór Families, and eachof themhaving this peculiarbiding appropriated unto him, wherein it is certain and confeffed by all the Jews, thatthis priviledge ofbringing forth the Mefflah cva henceforth impaled unto Judah. It mutt be donein this place, or there isno footftep ofit in the Scripturx And it is very Orangethat Jacob, in reckoning up the priviledges and advantages of Judah above his Brethren,¡could omit the chief of them , from whence all there¡ did flow. And the very tenour of the words manifeft this inten- tion s fixing on that whichwas the fountain and end.of all biding in thepromiféd feed, , he paffeth over his Elder Children, and determinesit onJudah with the continuance of Rule to the coming thereof. Q. 3o. Secondly, That which in the Text, is affirmed concerning this Shila, makes it yet more evident, who it was that isintended, 1:2+0y rn]1 151, 7ohim the gathering of the people. limp+> LXX. aeoed`ax.la idvâ+v, the expetlation of the Nations ; that is, 111pr from 111 , to expel¡or look for : So the Vulgar, Expeliatio Gentium. Onkelos rn51 wimp jlyörw', and himJhall the people obey ; or to him they (hall hearken. Ben Vz, ziel; K1t101) toroth becáufè of him the people Jhallfaint ; that is , ceafe their oppofition, and fubmit Untohim. TargumHierufal. t/7' pi irto+l jlllnÿ 11+71 rty'iht1 zsnl]5t}, and to him fhall all the Kingdoms of the Earth be fubjeli : all to the fame purpofe. 11117+ in contruEtion from rtfp+ is from ;1p1 tobear, attend, obey. The word is but once more ufed in the Scripture, Pray. 30. 17. where it is rendered Doilrine,or Teaching given out with Authority, and thereforeto be obeyed. So that primarily it may feem todenote obedience unto Dotrine, ; Which becaufe men gather themfelves together to attend unto it, it lignifies alto that gathering together s and fo is rendered byKafhi, r910At the gathering together, Colleétion, or Congregating. And allo is it by others, whofeem to look on rnp, asits root, which lignifies to gather and cased as well as to hope, exped,'and /arkafter. That which in all thefe Interpre- tations ii aimed at,. wherein they all agree, isone and the fame thing, namely. That the Gentiles; People, Heathen, fhouid be called and gathered unto the Shilo; fhould hearhis Doctrine, obey his Law, andbemade fubjelt unto him. Now as this was eminently contained in the great fundamental Promifcconcerning the *gabmade toAbraham, namely, that in him all the Nations of the earth fhould be bled: So there is not any defcription ofhim in the following Prophets more eminent then this, that unto him the gathering of thepeople fhoutd be, which in many places is made the CharaíïerifficalNoteof his Perlon and Kingdom. Hence force of the Jews themfelves interpret this place, as Rabbi Solomon by that of Ifaiah, lto1T 0113 1+12i, to him [Val/Gentiles Peek; and thatofChap. 42.4. 17110 t:3nf2 lrrintll; the yesfsall wait for his Law. The feet alto of the words given by the LXX. and that vulgar, ,rpood'exia iBvdv , expetlatio Gentium , have good countenance given unto it , in other places of Scripture. For as he iscalled, Hag: 2. 7. I=11171-4,0 r7IIri, the defire ofai Nations, that which they defire and expe. t; fo fpeaking of himfelf, Ifaa 6.6.0. he Cayes, 11p11=1110 17, the Ifles, the fame with 0+1.1, the Gentiles (hall wait for me, or expect me. Now heto whom the Gentiles ¡hall fèek whole Doorine they (hall learn, whole Law they (hall obey, to whom they (hall be fitbjett, in whom they (hall be bred, and to whom they fhall be gathered, for all thefe ends and purpofes, is the trueand only Mejah, and this is theShile here mentioned. 4: 31. We have the concurringaffent of all theTarguons unto this application of the word Shift
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