Explained and Vindicated., '79 SantFitat- San£iitatum in the abftraét, the Holinefl ofHoling:. The Moll Holy Place in theTabernacle andTemple was fo called ; butthat cannot be here intended. The time is limited, =+W17 W1la rter, to artnoint, ( or tomake a Mefah of ) the Moft Holy. But by the Jews confellion the Holy Place in the fecondTemple was never annointed, becaule it was not lawfullfor themto make the Holy Oyle. But fuppofe it was annointed, it mutt be fo long before the expiration of theft weeks, which end- ed, as they fuppofe in its final deflruEtion ; and in truth not long before. It muff thereforebe the perfon typified by the Holy Place, in whom the tulnefs ofthe God= head was todwell, that is here faid to be annointed. Had there been any Targum on the HebrewChapters ofDaniel, weShould have better known the fenfe of the antient Jews in thismatter then now we do. Some of them in after ages agree with us: Nachmanides tells us, ftrW01:iff L7 SU 17 W1 this Holy of Holier is the Meffiah; -in innwi 1, who is fantïifted from amongff the Sons of David. So He on the place. Thirdly, The Work alfigned tobedone in the dayes of this McNab, here fpokenof and confequently by him, declares who it is that is, intended. Sundry things there are in the Text belonging unto this Head : As ( I. ) Finifhing of Tranfgrefon. f 2. ) Th,making an End of Sin; ( 3. ) Making Reconciliationfor Iniquity , ( 4.) The bringing in ofeverlaJ&ng Righteonfnefl: (5.)The fealingupof;Tifton andProphecy : (6.)His being cut off, and not fir himfelf; ( 7. ) Confirming the Covenant with many. (8.) Caufttíg the Sacrifice andOblation to ceafe. All theft, efpecially as coincident, demonflrate the, perfon of the Mab. He that (hall call to;mind what hathbeen evinced concerning the nature of the first Promifi, the faith of the antient Judaical Church, the Perfon, Office; and Work of the Mph, will upon the first confideration of thefe things, conclude that this is he. For we have in theft things a fümmary oftheOld Teflament, the fubflance of all Temple Inflitutions, the Center of all Promifes, abrief delineation of the whole work of thepromifed feed. Wherefore although it be not an Expo&- tion of the place that we have undertaken , but meetly a demonfiration of the con- cernment of the Meffiah therein ; yet becaufe the confideration of the particular ex- prellions above mentioned, will give light into the ftrength of the prefent Argument, I (hall in our paffage briefly unfold them. The tuff thing defigned is, 9W97í Nh). The time determined for the coming of theMfab, is alto limited, ÿW91 ND7, ad cohibendamprevaricationem; to reftrain, forbid, coerce, make an endof Tranfgreffion. íC`17 is to Bout, to that up , to forbid, to coerce, to refgin, or reftrain, Pfalm 119.V. rot.'fN`17, I have refrained, or kept my feet from every evil way, Pfal. 4.0. v. I a. Thou Lord rent') `7 wilt net with-hold, or reflrain thy mercy from me. So alto totout up, or put a flop unto ; asJerem. ga. v.3. Haggai 1.y. 10. 1 Sam. 25. v. 33. Pfalm88. v. 9. Thence is Nt77 Career aPrifon wherein men are put under reftraise. From the fimilitude of Letters and sound in Pronuntiation, !Cane fuppofe it tohave an affinity in fignification with ten to con- femmate, to end,to finifh. But there is no pregnant enhance of this coincidence. For although f`í7 do fometimes fignifie to rejtrain 'or finer up, as Pfalm74. v.1r. yet 203 no wherefignifies to confummate, ftnifh, or compleat. The firi thing therefore promifedwith the Meffiah, which he was todo at his coming, wal to coerce and re- frain Tranfgrellion, to flout itup from overflowingthe world fo univerflly as it had doneformerly. Tranfgrefon from the day of its felt entrance into the world, had palled over thewhole lower Creation like a flood. God would now fet bounds un- to it, coerce and refrain it, that it fhould notfor the fixture overflow mankind as it haddone. This was the work of the Mefsiah. By his Daffrine,by his Spirit, byhis Grace, and the Power of his Gofpel, he fet bounds to the rage ofwickednefs, rooted out the old Idolatry of the world, and turned millions of the Sons of Adam unto Righteoufnefs. And thé Jews who deny his coming, can giveno inftance of any otherteftraint laidupon the prevalencyofTranfgreflionwithin the time limited by the Angel, and fo direétly deny theTruth of the Prophecy, becaufe they will not apply it untohim unto whomalone it clothbelong. The fecond thingto be done at the feafön determined, is shirt ann'7 , to feat up fins, ei asecyioai ; tofiat, or totes/ up. The expreflìoti is Metaphorical. To feat, is either to keep fafe, or to hide, cover and conceal. The former can have no place here, though the word feem once to be ufed in that 1 nfe, with reference unto fin. yob 14. v. 14. But this fettle hath a, perk:a inconfiftencywith what is Spoken imme- diately before, and what follows direlkly after in the Text. And the molt proper A a- A fenfe f. 36. f. '31
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