W ORD OF THE LORD 257 WORD OF THE LORD, HIS is a Title peculiarly applicable to the Lord 7efus Chrijt throughout the Bible. The Jews, before his Advent, underltood by this Epithet the great Mejiaah; and their Commentators generally adopted the fame Idea, and afcribed to him all the effential Attri- butes of the Deity.* The Term lignifies not barely Wordfpoken, as an Effeft or Emanation ; but the Rea fon or Wifdom fpeaking; the aEtive Caufe or Energy, accompanying what is fpoken ; and the Medium, by, which it is known. " He is the Wifdom of GOD, fay feveral of the Fathers, confidering him in his Pra;-ex- iftence before all Vdorlds ; and fo he is compared to filent Thought refting in the Mind : And he is the Word of GOD, confidering him in [or to be in] his in- carnate State; and fo he is compared to outward Speech, whereby he reveals the Father to us." t Jonathan the Cbaldee, and other Jewifh Expofitors, tranflate feveral of the divine Names byat,n+n, the WOAD or SPEECH, by which (as Bythner obferves in his Analyfis, Pfalm ii. ç. where the celebrated Chaldee Targum hath rendered +ria Adami by rtirrn Mimra) they underftood the Mefah, the eternal WORD of GOD. Jonathan, in particular, not only fays, that by the WORD of JEHOVAH is to be underftood the Megiah, but alto that the Megab is JEHOVAH. Vide GALATXN. de ilrc. Cath. Ver. L iii. C. q.. GROT. deVerit. &c. 1.v. 4. 21. SPA NH. Blerncb.Iii. Theol. p. 169. t Dr. Gursa upon John i. 1. Noter. S He
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