fteßlimoniesproving the Mefriah tohe come. 163 The only difficulty in the interpretation of there words, lyes in their unufual con- 0. ao. ftrudion. The Verb 1131, (Gull come, is of the plural number ; venient. mom the defire, whereunto we refer it, of the fingular : defiderium omnium gentian: venient : Kimchi obferving this anomaly, to fait the words unto his own fenf, affirms that 1 is want- ie, whi_h fhould be prefixed to rnon, and fo be rendered, all Nationsfhall come with their defire, that is, their deferable things ; their Silver and Gold, but there is no need of this Arbitrary fupply of theText ; and the fenfe contended for by him, we have fufficiently difproved. Nor is it unufual in the HebrewTongue, where twoSub- ft.entives are joyned in conffrunion, that the Verb agrees in number and perfòn, not with that which directly and immediately it refpeéts, but With that whereby it is regulated. As there here is put in Itatu conftruno, by=Mx, and theVerb from thence putin the plural number, fo 2Sam. to. 9. Joab law fo1Vmit 110 1'`113 mum i tr, that the face of battle was againft him. The Verb Patin, war, which refers diret`hly to t)9, the face, agrees not in number with it, but with rtolll-/o, the barrel, by which the other is put in conitruïtion. SoJob ,15. ao. 'UM O'iW "igt23, the number of years is hid: Mg), are hid ; it agrees with O')vt, years; and not with 1900, the number; in the very fame kind of conftruthion with that of the words here ufed by the Pro- phet. So likewife t Sam. a¢. t]'ttn 31132 nwp; arene fortium confraflorum. The Adjeftive =in broken , agrees in number with Oi1]x , the mighty , though it be apparently fpoken of the bow : and likewifé, Hof. 6. v. g. >;tgt 11tá ',mum , thy Judgements fhall go forth as the light : btu', fhall go forth, agrees in namber with-M.2 the light, though it refpefk j'oSWte, thy Judgements, in the plural number; and many other intlances of the like kind, maybe alledged to the fame parpofe. This con- ftruétion then, though anomalous, yet is in that Language fofrequent, as not to cre) ate any. dificultie in the words s and yet pollibly the words may not be without á further fénfe, intimating the coming of the Nations to Christ upon his coming into the Temple: Though the words of thePromife are thus clear in themfelves, we may yet fee 4. 21. what further light is contributed unto our interpretation from the Circumftances before obferved ; as First, the way of bringing in this Glory is there expreffed by the Prophet, from the mouthof the Lord ; I will (hake the Heavens, and the Earth, the Sea, and the dry Land, andIwill Ibake allNations. All the Jewilh Expolitors agree, that thefe words are to be interpreted tftoo fi 41) ; that is, Metaphoricaly and figuratively. Yet it cannot be denyed, that a great concu(lion and fhakirig of the World, and all the Nations of it, is intended in them ; otherwifh nothing is signified by them. And this muff be with reference unto that boufe, and theWorfhip there- of, and that in a tendencyunto its glory. Now I delire to knowwhat work among the Nations in the whole World it is, that was wrought with refpecd unto the Temple which is here intended. TheNations came indeedunder Antiochos, and almoffruined it; under Graffiti, androbbed it ; under Pompey, and prophaned it ; under Titus and destroyed it. But what tended all this to its glory ? But refer thefe words unto the coming of the Meffials, and all things contained in themwere clearly fultilled. Take the words litterally, and they fuit the event. At his Birth, a New Star appeared in the Heavens ;; Angels celebrated his Nativity ; Wifemen came from the Ealt, to enquire after him; Herodand all 7erufalem, wasIhaken at the tidings of him; and upon his undertaiting ofhis work, he wrought. Miracles in Heaven, and Earth, Sea, and dry Land, upon the whole Creation ofGod. Take them Metaphorically, as they are rather tobe understood, for the mighty change which God would work in his.Worfhip, and the herring up of the Nations of the world to receive him, and his Doctrine, andthe event is yet more evident. All Nations underHeaven were quickly (taken and moned by his coming. Somewere flirted upto enquire after him; Come toop - pofe him; untill the world, asto the greateft and the molt noble parts of it, was made fubjefl untohim. Evident it is, that fine the creation of all things , never was there fuch an Alteration and Coucutûon in the world, as that wherewith the Mefrah and his Doctrine was brought into it; and which is therefore fo expref- fedby the Prophet. Abarbinelaffirms that the =MINI lern, Chriftian Donors, would argue andprove f. zz. from hence, that it is not the Temple ofthe Jews, but theirown Houfe ofWorfbip, that is intended in thefewords, and that besaufe there was no fach confluence of the Nations unto the Jews, either under the first, or fecond Temple, as is here promifed : Y a But
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