12IGHT HAND, OF JEHOVAH. 273 The Pfalmift is full in defcribing the Glories of CHRIST, as the Right-Hand of JEHOVAH. Afew Texts, for the fake of Brevity, are referred to in the Margin.* Many might be added ; but thefe may fuffice to prove, that Chrift is the Arm, Hand, &c. of Jehovah. THAT this Arm, Hand, and Right Hand, ofJehovah, is Jehovah himfelf; will foon appear by -other Texts in the Bible. Awake, awake (fays the Prophet), put on Strength, O ARM of the LORD ; awake as in the antient Days, in the Generations of old. Art thou not IT [the Arm] that bath cut Rahab, andwounded the Dragon ? Art thou not IT, which bath dried the Sea, the Waters of thegreat Deep ; that bath made the Depths of the Sea a Wayfor the Ran- famed to pafs over ?1. But the Pfalmift Pays, that JEHO- VAH rebuked the Red Sea, and it was dried up, and led them through the Depths. $ This ARM, therefore, is JE- HOVAH himfelf. JEHOVAH (fays the fame Prophet) bath fworn by hi.i RIGHT HAND, and by the ARM of his Strength. Now the Apoftie tells us, that becaufe GOD could(wear by no greater, when He made Promife, He (ware by HIMSELF. This Reafon equally holds in Confirmation of all the di- t Pfalm xvii. 7. xviii. 35. xx. 6. xliv. 3. xlviii. to. lxxviii. 54o cxxx?x. to. t Ifaiah li. g. Egypt was fo called, on account of its great Power and Pride in thofe Days; and the Dragon, both here and in Ezek. xxix. 3. feems to imply the King of Egypt, who diffufed the Poifon ofVice and Idolatry, for which that,Country was infamous from the earlieft Ages. In a fpiritual Senfe, the Text reveals the Deliverance, which Chrift obtained for his Chofen, from the Bondage of Sin and Corruption, and from the Power of that old Serpent, the Devil, who hath infeEted the World. By the wounding of the Dragon, or Serpent, may likewife be figni- fied, and particularly to the Church at that Time, the Blow which Idolatrywould receive, by the Manifekation of the of theLoan, or the MESSIAH. Accordingly we are told, that Paganifm declined in a furprizing Manner, upon the Promulgation of the Gofpel, by which the Adoration of the Creatures. (among whom the Serpent was a capital Obje& with the oriental Nations) rapidly gave way to the Adorationof the Creator. j Pfalm cvi. 9. T vine
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