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Virgin, that He was Jeнovaн. For the rejoins to her, My foul doth magnify the LORD, [JeHoVaн, which JE is,] and my spirit has rejoiced in GOD [this EL] THE SAVIOR of me, Pf. lxxx. 4, 98, expreffed by the latter part of the name : And fhe adds, HE that is MIGHTY ([GeBeR] THE MIGHTY ONE joined with [EL] GOD this SON, P. ix. 6.) has magnified me, (by being with her as with JeHOSHUA, c. iii. 7.) and HOLY is the NAME of HIM, I. xlvii. 4. xii. 6. Pf. xlviii. 1. liii. 7. cii. 21. in this ZION.) As HE (this ANGEL, this [EL] GOD, for it was HE who) Spake, &c. fhe confidered HIM, then though man, yet as the GOD of her fathers.

ZACHARIAS next, being further informed by her, and fhewing the tongue of the dumb should fing for joy on the incarnation, praises the GOD upon the Baptift's circumcifion. So that fear came on all, when all thefe fayings were noifed abroad throughout all the hill country of JUDEA; (as before on the inhabitants hearing JeHovaн was with the typic JESUS,) and the people now laid them up in their hearts. For they heard ZACHARIAS infift that his fon fhould go before Jeнovaн, and fay, Blessed be the LORD GOD of ISRAEL, for [Autos] HE HIMSELF hath VISITED HIS people (epifkepfato, as the shepherd and bishop of our fouls, 1 Pet. ii. 25, as this perfon did typically in EGYPT, and as the day-spring from on high,) and raised

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up the horn of falvation for us (called Jeнovaн, who came down, Pf. xviii,) &c. as He pake, &c. to remember the oath HE (this ANGEL Gen. xxii. 15,) fware, &c. And, thou child, fhalt be called the prophet of the HIGHEST, (the title of this GOD the REDEEMER, Pf. lxxviii. 35.) and thou shalt affuredly go before the face [H. perfon] of the LORD [H. JeHováн] to give knowlege of the falvation of HIM, &c. of the (EAST, of the tradition of whofe dominion Tacitus fpeaks or) DAY-SPRING OF BRANCH; where he defcribes CHRIST as Jeнovaн, and the SAVIOR, and THE BRANCHING LIGHT, Zec. vi. 12. After the nativity the ANGEL did not mention JEsUs by name to the fhepherds, as fignifying more than SAVIOR, but only [SOTER] SAVIOR, because HE was afterwards about to declare HIM [JE] the LORD, and by this means avoided a repetition. For He fays, Fear not; for behold I evangelize, or bring you good tidings of great joy, (Gen. xvii. 19. xxi. 6.) and then, giving a defcription that contains this interpretation, tells them that there was born unto them [y THE SAVIOR, (the latter part of the name) who is CHRIST, (the ONE ANOINTED as man with the DIVINITY, and therefore) the LORD, [H. JE or ADONI, which JE the former part of the name is] THE ESSENCE THE SAVIOR. "Becaufe (a) as HE is CHRIST, HE is man

(a) Bishop Andrews on the text.

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*only; it is His name as Man (though im"plying Him to be more), HE, that must fave us, must be the LORD, &c. This SAVIOR, "this CHRIST because HE is the LORD hath « an everlasting priest-hood, and so is perfectly

able to fave them that come to GOD by HIM." Well therefore may it be repeatedly written c. ii. 17, 18, when they had made known abroad the faying, &c. that all they that heard wondered at those things, which were told them by the fhepherds; as many now do.

On His circumcifion SIMEON [the OBEDIENT ONE], to whom it was revealed (as a fight by faith is by the word yet to the observers of it,) that HE fhould not fee death, 'till he had feen the CHRIST of the LORD [Jeнova, and fo of JE,] understood HIM to be this. For he calls HIM faid to become, SALVATION, which JE is then the LIGHT to lighten the nations, and the So well known GLORY of HIS people ISRAEL. to be the characters of JE, that it would have been blafphemy to have applied them to another. Nay I. xlii. 1, here referred to, represents the MESSIAH as His elect ONE, in whom the [NePeSH] form or FRAME of HIM, (JeHovaн, this JE) (who took on HIM the form of a fervant, Phil. ii.) delighted, and on whom He would put the SPIRIT, (as applied Mat. xii. 18.) and calls HIM Jeнovaн, who was to make darkness light · before them, &c. v.6, 8, 12, 13, 16, the fer

vant Jeнovaн v. 20, who fays thou art for the ufe of ME, I am Jeнovaн thy GOD the HOLY ONE of ISRAEL thy SAVIOR, c. xliii. 1, 3. 14. Such caufe had JOSEPH and MARY to marvel, as it is again faid they did, at those things which were spoken of HIM, Luk. ii. 33. But to make it clearer, SIMEON, declaring THIS ONE is fet for the fall and rifing again of many in ISRAEL, and for a fign which shall be spoken against, Luk. ii. 34, refers to Is. viii. 8, &c. where after declaring the fufferings of the [EMMANUEL] GOD WITH US, whom the Virgin was to bring forth, and the folly of a confederacy against HIM, because fuch it is faid, ver. 13, fanctify Jeнovaн of hosts, the subftance of HIM, and [EUA] HE, the exifting one Himself shall be made to be your fear, &c. For Jeнovan fhall be for a fanctuary, &c. many among them fhall ftumble and fall, and be broken and be fnared and taken, ver. 15. To which is fubjoined as now to take place, Bind up the testimony, seal the law among my difciples-I and the children, &c. are for figns, and for wonders in ISRAEL from JeHovan of hosts, which dwelleth in (the fign of the MESSIAH) mount ZION, ver. 18. Whence we see the MESSIAH is called Jeнovaн, which JE is, and [EUA] the very BEING HIMSELF, to which autos answers, Mat. i. 21. Therefore [outos, EUA] THIS ONE, OF BEING mentioned by SIMEON, has a relation to JESUs as Jeнovaн, JE, who was to be both this fanctuary

fanctuary and flone of flumbling, &c. as applied Rom. ix. 32. 1 Pet. ii. 8. at which many fhould fall; and alfo be for this fign to be fpoken against, as well as His regenerate children; the fign, who, like His types, endured the contradiction of finners, though many became broken-hearted, were taken and caught, Mat. iv. 19. 2 Cor. xii. 16. To this we may add, it is the type [ISAIAH] THE SAVIOR THE ESSENCE, who calls Himself this fign. So that it is of HIM, as truly THE SAVIOR [JE] THE ESSENCE, SIMEON prophecied on CHRIST's being called by the like name, JE

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The next evidence is ANNA [THE GRACIOUS ONE] the prophetess, that (fhewing what such are) departed not from the temple, but ferved GOD with fafting and prayer night and day. For fhe coming in, and finding (to prove fuch will find) JESUS there, at that inftant gave thanks likewife or made confeffion unto the LORD [H. JeHoVaн] and fpake of HIM to them that looked for redemption in JERUSALEM--of their foul or frame, >Ex. xxi. 30, from fin, Pf. cxxx. 8, and trouble, lxxviii. 42. death and hell [the grave] Hof. xviii. 14. which was to be with the LAMB xxxiv. 20, it is the appropriate attribute of this Jeнovaн to effect, Deut. vii, viii. & al. xxiv. 18-xxv. 4, 9-vii. 32-i. (17, 21 Neh. i. 10. Pf. xxv. 22-xxxi, 6. xlix. 16.

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