The prophet specifies the end which these manifestations were designed to effect | In all the salvations wrought for them, God looked upon Christ the Anointed, and brought deliverances to pass by him |
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The warlike nation meets with the same fate as the royal house | ערוץ "רשת" 13 הוא ערוץ טלוויזיה מסחרי המשודר באפיק 13 |
The words may be rendered, "thou wentest forth"; or, "thou goest forth"; thou wilt do so; and mayest thou do so, "to save thy people, to save thy anointed" t ; and so respect not the salvation of Israel by Moses or Joshua; nor the spiritual and eternal salvation of God's elect by the Messiah; but the salvation of the Lord's people from mystical Babylon, from the oppression and tyranny of antichrist, and from all his false doctrines, superstition, and idolatry, and ruin by them; and particularly the salvation of the two witnesses, the two olive trees, the two anointed ones that stand before the Lord of the whole earth; the singular being put for the plural, "anointed" for "anointed ones"; and so the Alexandrian copy of the Septuagint version, and the Arabic version, render it, "thy Christs", or "thy anointed ones"; now this will be done when the Lord shall go forth in his power and providence, and quicken and raise their dead bodies, when they have lain three days and a half, and shall cause them to ascend to heaven in the sight of their enemies; see , thou woundedst the head out of the house of the wicked; not the princes of the families of the land of Canaan, as some; nor the first born of Pharaoh's family in Egypt, or him and his host at the Red sea, as, others; nor Goliath of Gath, smitten by David, as Burkius; nor Satan and his principalities and powers by Christ on the cross; but antichrist the man of sin, that wicked and lawless one, who is at the bead of a wicked house or family, the antichristian party; who received a wound at the Reformation; and ere long the kings of the earth will hate the whore, eat her flesh, and burn her with fire; and Christ, will utterly consume and destroy this wicked one with the breath of his mouth, and the brightness of his coming, see | Septuagint, Ἐξήγειρας δεσμοὺς ἕως τραχήλου, "Thou didst raise chains unto the neck |
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In order that these enemies may be utterly destroyed, God passes through the sea | Thou wentest forth for the salvation of that people, even for salvation with thine anointed, |
The meaning of the first clause of the verse depends upon the explanation to be given to the word perâzâv | You struck the head of the house of the evil To lay him open from thigh to neck |
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All is with Him one everlasting purpose; the last were, as it were, embodied in the first: were it not for the last, the first would not have been | Ewald, 281, c, and 293, c |
The "anointed one," again, is not the nation of Israel, for the term is always applied to a single individual and never to the people collectively; so here it is the theocratic king who is meant - first, the representative of David; and secondly, the Messiah.
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