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A farther enquiry into several remarkable texts of the Old and New Testament which contain some difficulty in them with a probable resolution of them / by John Edwards ...
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Edwards, John, 1637-1716.
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fit Epithet of the Messias who is * Rev. 1. 5. the Prince of the Kings of the Earth and ‖ Luke 1. 32 33. shall be great and shall reign for ever and of whose Kingdom there shall be no end This is the King foretold in Ier. 23. 5. that shall reign and prosper that shall be Victorious and Triumphant that shall be both a Saviour and a Conqueror And therefore to this purpose that is very observable which we read concerning our Saviour's ‖ Matt. 21. riding in state into Jerusalem upon an Ass for in Palestine even their * Iudg. 10. 4 Princes and Nobles rid upon Asâ—es It is said the officious People ‖ Mat. 21. 8. spread their Garments in the way which was a Testimony of Subjection to Kings 2 Kings 9. 13. There was the like Custom used among the Gentiles as their * Plutarch in Catone Vtic. Aeschil in Agamemn Writers assure us And some of this transported Multitude †V. 9. cut down branches from the Trees and strowed them in the way And other Branches without doubt they carried in their hands as an Emblem of Victory and Triumph for this was an usual Practice among several Nations The Evangelist St. Iohn relating this passage tells us That they took Branches of Palm-trees and went forth to meet him ch 12. v. 13. For it was the Custom on such an Occasion to make use especially of the Boughs of this particular Tree because it was generally held to be a Symbol of Victory of which †L. 3. c. 6. Aulus Gellius and ‖ Sympos l. 8. c. 5. Plutarch pretended to give the reasons viz. Because this is a firm and durable Tree and had Leaves always green whence you read of * Ps. 92. 12. flourishing like the Palm-tree and from a Vulgar Error that prevail'd about this Tree i. e. That the more weights are laid on it the higher it riseth Whence Palma among the Latins signifies Victory and the Reward of it And 't is certain that the Branches of this Tree were used in Triumphs both among the Greeks and Romans and were the Recompense of Conquerors Accordingly the Iews here who in many things followed the Usages of other Nations to express their Triumphal Joy at the Arrival of the Blessed Iesus took Branches of Palm-trees and went forth to welcome him to Ierusalem Yea 't is no wonder that the Iews in particular who were used to this Solemnity and did yearly carry and hold up Boughs of Trees ‖ Neh. 8. 15 on their Feast of Tabernacles 't is no wonder I say that these Iews when they saw Iesus coming made use of this Ceremony and cried Hosanna to him as you read they did for at that Feast they used to sing 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and for shortness 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Hosanna And the Talmud informs us that these very Boughs and Branches of Trees which they lifted up were called Hosanna's by them Here then 't is worth our observing that at our Saviour's Triumphal Câ—valcade through the Streets of Ierusalem they received him with this particular Acclamation and Applause and that they bore their Hosanna's in their Hands and brought them to the Son of David and acknowledged him by this Gratulation to be their Messias and Saviour for the English of Hosanna is Save us now And thus this Gratulatory Acclamation exactly agrees to him who is the Iesus the Saviour the Deliverer and who is the Shiloh the Prosperous the Triumphant Therefore I take it to have been by a particular Direction of Heaven that our Blessed Lord at his entrance into Ierusalem in Triumph was received with repeated Hosanna's from the People for Saving and Triumphing go together I find the concurrence of these two in Zechary's Prediction of our Saviour in ch 9. v. 9. a Prophetical Passage which all the antient Jews understood of the Messias but it is needless to produce their words or give you their names this being so amply and satisfactorily performed by a ‖ Bochart de Animal Sacr. l. 2. c. 17. worthy Writer of this last Age Behold thy King cometh unto thee He is just and having Salvation lowly meek in himself but riding upon an Ass and upon a Colt the Foal of an Ass as a King in Joy and Triumph Thus he was a Saviour and a Triumphant King and if he had not been the former it was impossible he should have been the latter It is true he was pleased to submit to Death and the Horrours of the Grave but he soon rescued himself from them and ascended Triumphantly to Heaven ‖ Acts 2. 36. God made that same Iesus who was crucified both Lord and Christ and †Eph. 1. â—0 c. hath set him at his own right hand in the heavenly places far above all Principality and Power and Might and Dominion and every name that is named not only in this World but also in that which is to come And hath put all things under his feet and gave him to be the Head over all things to the Church We might here also recount the wonderful Success of the Christian Religion in the World how it was planted and propagated even against the powerful Inclinations and most inveterate Customs of Mankind how it broke all their Measures and made its way through all Difficulties how it thrived and flourished when it was most opposed and persecuted In a word how it miraculously prevailed maugre all the Force and Power all the Wit and Policy of its malicious Adversaries From this one Consideration alone we might demonstrate the Vertue of this Name Shiloh and give undeniable proofs that our Lord most deservedly had this Title i. e. That he was Prosperous and Successful And when at last he shall take to himself his most Absolute Power and Soveraignty and reign in the Christian Church as ‖ Rev. 19. 16. King of Kings and Lord of Lords when in those Halcyon days in that Glorious Jubilee of the World ‖ Rev. 11. 15. The Kingdoms of the Earth shall become the Kingdoms of our Lord and of his Christ then we shall with rejoycing and Exaltation proclaim admire and extol this Name Shiloh we shall then with gladsome Experience acknowledge that He and his Cause alone prosper upon the Earth we shall confess that all his Blessed Enterprizes for his Church are Succesâ—ful Briefly we shall adore him as our Compleat Shiloh our Saviour our Peace-maker our Prosperous Messias Thus I have been large in interpreting and explaining this Antient Name of the Messias and you see what an Illustrious and Glorious Title it is I have this yet farther to observe that in some of the most notable and eminent Prophesies in the Old Testament concerning Christ these three things which are comprehended in the Name Shiloh are particularly and distinctly mentioned and are all found together Thus in Psalm 72. which is a clear Prediction concerning the Messias as the
this we are to note that the departing of the Scepter was by degrees it began some time before our Saviour's Birth and was in a short time compleated I say before Christ's coming in the Flesh the departing of the Jewish Government had its Beginning For it is evident from unquestionable Writers that Antipater an Idumaean was set over the Iews by Iulius Caesar and Antigonus who was the last of the Jewish Kings and of Jewish Race was deposed Now it might be said that the Scepter departed from Judah viz. when a Person not by Birth a Jew but a mere Alien was forced upon them and usurped the Jewish Government Till this time their Governours were always Iews but now ever afterwards all the rest were Strangers and Gentiles This was the first step of the Total Departure of the Scepter but it more signally and eminently departed quite from that Nation when Herod the Son of this Antipater was set over them For he upon the Death of Caesar hastened to Rome aâ—d by complaining to the Roman Senate and by Anthony's means whom he had bribed was made King of Iudea Whereupon at his return he indeavoured to exâ—iâ—pate all the Blood Royal he put to death 〈◊〉 and Hircanus the right Heirs of the Crown he kill'd all of the Tribe of Iudah and of the Family of the Asmonaei whom he fear'd might contend with him for the Kingdom and he reigned at Ierusalem as King of Iudea but without the Iews consent He was a considerable time a great Scourge and Plague to the Iews who would by no means acknowledge a Stranger for their King But he to oblige and win them embraced their Religion and rebuilt their Temple which had this Effect upon them that at last they voluntarily resigned the Right of the Kingdom to him and owned him for their King and swore Fealty to him This was in the two and thirtieth Year of his Reign in which Year likewise Christ was born So that the Prophesie was exactly fulfilled when the Jewish Kingdom had changed its True Owner and the Scepter was actually departed from Iudah and that with the Consent of the Iews which never was before then Christ came This was in the Two and fortieth Year of Augustus when Cyrenius was the Prefect of Syria Luke 2. 2. And that it may appear that the Scepter was 〈◊〉 from Judah it is signally recorded that Augustus taxed Iudea 1 3 4 Verses of that Chapter Herod paid Tribute to Caesar the whole Land was subject to the Empire and the Iews had no Dominion of their own Thus till this Herod the Great 's time the Kingly Government continued in the Tribe of Iudah and the Royal Scepter did not depart till this Stranger reigned over them for he was the first Jewish King of strange Blood and Descent It is unreasonable to attend to what ‖ Scaliger Casaubon some alledge that he was not an Alien but one of the Israelitish Nation and a Iew by Birth Which mistake they have run into because they read that Herod was a Iew and was circumcised which was only to please the Iews and to settle himself in the Kingdom but this proves not that he was a Iew by Birth The contrary appears from the best ‖ St. Ierom Eusebius Epiphanius and other Fathers Records Yea Iosephus the Iew tells us expresly that he was by his Father an Idumean and by his Mother an Arabian Africanus and others derive his Pedegre otherwise but all make him a Foreigner and Stranger And they all agree that the Iews owned him for their King and that he was the first Stranger whom they admitted to sway the Scepter over them and consequently that in Him this Divine Oracle began to be fulfilled viz. That the Scepter should depart from Judah And when our Saviour conversed here on Earth this Prophesie was still accomplished more and more For we find that the Iewish Sanhedrim had lost their Judicial Power of Life and Death and in all things truckled to the Roman Governours that were set over them And at last at the Destruction of Ierusalem their whole Power was quite Extinct and the Scepter and Law-giver totally and finally departed from them Then the Government of every sort the Priesthood and the Magistracy the Making of Laws and the Executing them the State and Religion the Commonwealth and the Church were destroyed together and so this Sacred Prediction was compleatly fulfilled You see then that there were Degrees of it and therefore 't is Vain and Idle to interpret this Prophesie of a Moment of time A punctual Designation of a certain Minute Season is unreasonable for the Government and Authority of the Iews decayed gradually till there was at length a final departing of them This then is the Grand thing represented in this Prophesie that at or about Christ's Coming the Scepter departed from the Nation of the Iews Which is as much as we desire to prove the Real Fulfilling of this Antient Prediction and from thence the Truth of Christianity For thus we argue the Jewish Scepter was to depart when Christ came It is manifest and undeniable that that Scepter is departed therefore Christ is come The Overthrow of the Jewish Polity Magistracy and Government is a certain Sign Proof and Demonstration that our Iesus is the Christ and that this Christ is come It is true there was heretofore an Interruption of the Scepter but the Iews returned to their Land and Rule again But now for above Sixteen hundred Years there hath been no shew at all of a Scepter and Kingdom which is an undeniable Argument that the Scepter is quite departed Therefore the Talmud often saith that this Prediction refers to the Particular Case of the Iews so that when Magistracy ceased in Ierusalâ—m and the Kingdom and Jurisdiction were cast off they ought presently to expect the Messiah And those are Remarkable words of R. David Kimchi on Hos. 3. 4 The Children of Israel shall abide many days without a King and without a Prince and without a Sacrifice c. These saith he are the times of Exile in which we are at this day we have neither a King nor a Prince of the Stock of Israel but we are under the Power of the Gentiles and under the Power of the Kings and Princes of the Gentiles Which is as much as to confess that this Prophesie which I have been commenting upon is accomplished That the Scepter is departed from Judah and that the Messias who is the Blessed Iesus the True Shiloh the Saviour the Peace-maker the Prosperer is come The second Text enquired into viz. Exod. XXVIII 30. Thou shalt put in the Breast-plate of Iudgment the Urim and the Thummim THis Renowned Oracle of the Iews hath employed the Thoughts and Studies of many Learned Persons both Iews and Christians but the Result of their Enquiries hath been very different For some after all their Searches have brought in an Ignoramus Thus R. David Kimchi expresly averreth