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Joh. xvi. 33. and give them a like but more joyous release from their trespass and bondage in death, a more gladsome redemption of their frames and return to their bodily houses; in a word, a like but more delightful JUBILEE, (a) and "the principal,” (b) because “eternal fal"vation," as fuperior as the antitype to the type, as the fubftance to the fhadow, 2 Cor. iii. 11. "Till then (for they should remember the word was to become a fealed book, whose inward sense they should not understand, though they should fee and read, as many others, I fear, only do, the outward letter, according to I. vi. 9, 10. Acts xxix. 10, 11, 12. and fo like the old inhabitants of the land, not believe his word preaching peace ;) the fair character of this once fuffering, then triumphant prince bearing the typic glory would be received as the heaven-fent pledge and memorial of the other holy and undefiled JESUS to the church; as the glass prefenting to it the adorable object of its faith, hope and love. And as fuch he would be the ftandard, by which the divine miffion

(a) R. Abarbanel on Lev. xxv. 8. explains this of "the "foul's returning to the ftate it was cut off from ;" and R. Menachem, of "the redemption of fouls", and ver. 48 One of your brethren thus, "This is the KING MESSIAH, the fon of "DAVID of the tribe of JuDaн, the most excellent of all "the tribes."

(b) If. xlv. 7, according to Pf. cvi. which the Talmud in [Beracot] the Bleffings, c. i. fays, “ is to be understood of the MESSIAH. And the author of Sepher IKKARIM, 7. iii. c. 16, fays "hence it can't be denied, but that there fhall be a lazu, which will change the JUBILEE, &c.”

miffion of THE MESSIAH might be ascertained on His advent; the ufurping pretenfions of hypocritical impoftors, the dupes of craft or folly be detected; and the people not fall, as for want of attention to it they have done, a wretched prey to them, who should impiously affume for a mafk the NAME of this Gop of MOSES, faying, I AM, Mat. xxiv. 5, Mar. xxv. 6, Luk. xxi, 8. Because no person, who fhould not manifeftly have THE GLORY, THE ESSENCE united with him, not be ONE with [ELEAZER] THE GOD THE HELPER, and be and do what was fhewed forth in the figure, and so truly bear the name, could poffibly be the real perfon; any more than another could be a further figure without fome such similitude in his character, as was in the high-priest JeнOSHUA's. On the other hand a precise correspondency in a person's nature and name, in his actions and passion (a) with those of this type, as well as with the other characters in SS, would indisputably prove him, as it does our LORD to be THE ANGEL OF SENT PERSON JEHOVAH, to be [THE LORD GOD, HEB. JeH] THE EXISTING ONE of [ ALEIM] THE PERSONS INTERPOSED BY OATH, (as called Pf. lxviii. 19;) to be THE

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(a) of this paffion God gave the Jews, among many others, a type in the death of a royal son under the name [MaLCHISHEAMY KING THE SAVIOR," I S. Xxxi. 2, just be fore [DaviD] 66 THE BELOVED" obtained the kingdom, as the LORD's (typic) CHRIST,

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(EL] (a) INTERPOSING GOD; [ ADONI] THE DIRECTOR Jehovaн, ver. xxi. 22, of hofts Ixix. 7. THE [SHEM] NAME of THE DIVINE PERSONS, ver. 31 (whofe praises are res hearfed in these and many other Pfalms ;) THE GOD of ISRAEL, the [ EVA] EXISTING ONE giving ftrength and pow'r to His affociate body (natural and mystical) i. e. to be a true JESUS. For it is totally incredible that HE, who was with JeнOSHUA, fhould ever fuffer fuch concurrence in one who was not the PERSON prefigured, of in any other but HIMSELF INCARNATE. So fitly had the name JeHOSHUA in it the title of HIM whom the defcriptions affirm with him.

One thing more is to be remarked, that this JeHOSHUA is distinguished as the [ BEN] son or one conftructed of NUN, i. e. THE SUBJECTED ONE, GOD exalting him, who came out of this lowly perfon, to this eminent character and glory. A particular well figuring the true JESUS was to be looked for as alike confifting of [NUN] THE SUBJECTED ONE, or one in fubjection as a (c) fon, even of THE NAME, who it is faid Pf. lxxii, 17. [r] (c) should be made [NUN] a SUBJECTED

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(a) By rendering the fingular [1] "God" by the fame word we translate [ALEIM] the plural name of THE TRINITY, a great part of the evidence of CHRIST, who is repeatedly f ftyled, efpecially in the Pfalms, muft be funk on an ordinary reader; unless the paffages were marked out. See p. 56, 87, 89. (b) Aben Ezra renders it "hall be called a son.'" (c) The root of this, I apprehend, is [7] INE, (tho' in this form the [1] N is doubled, and the [n] is dropped, as in a

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ONE, that HE after being under fubjection, Gal. c. iv. 1. might have this transcendent dignity and name of JESUS, THE ESSENCE THE SAVIOR, and be crowned with the true GLORY: this character being represented (as in Phil. ii. 8, 9, Heb. i. 6, 7, 9,) to fpring from the former of THE SUBJECTED ONE, as the typic JeнOSHUA did from NUN. For what lefs do these words import, when thus truly englished, "THE ESSENCE THE SAVIOR conftructed of "THE "SUBJECTED ONE ?" Therefore I conclude them added, and the Jews, who knew their language, to have understood them added, not merely to fhew his family, but to prevent offence at the cross, and to point out the lowly depreffed state out of which the true JESUS fhould rife, and be crowned with GLORY, according to Prov. xv. 33, Before honour is humility. Which antithefis or "opposition in the

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from), and fignifies to fubject, so as to depress or press down (as Mr. Parkburft fays) as [IIN] "the juice of the grape." Whence it is used to denote a fon in this character, (as [1] BeN does in another), who is kept under, and whose movements are prefed in fubjection to another. The name therefore was well given to one born in EGYPT under fore pressure and fubjection, learning obedience by the things that he suffered; as CHRIST is faid to have done, Heb. v. 8. Hence alfo, I doubt nót, came vavos, nanus fox a borse pressed in growth, as Bechman fays, or a dwarf; our Eng. Ninny, for one fo in point of understanding; and a nun who is under fubjection, under vows, and profeffing to keep the body in subjećtion.

words thus interpreted, is another proof the meaning affigned JeнOSHUA is a right one.

Happy they who after this example humble themselves under the mighty hand of God in all affectionate obedience to his truth, that HE may exalt them also in due time. To which I apprehend it will not a little contribute to perceive" the two teftaments," as (a) Chryfoftom words it," attend on the one LORD."

(a) In Hom. III. V. p. 7166

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