In that day — In that calamitous time. Seven — Many. A certain number for an uncertain. One man — Because few men shall survive that dreadful stroke. Only — Own us for thy wives. Our reproach — Virginity was esteemed a reproach; children, the usual fruit of marriage, being both an honour to their pa... [ Continue Reading ]
In that day — About that time: when the Lord shall have washed away the filth of Zion, by those dreadful judgments now described. The branch — The Messiah. The earth — The land which for the sins of the people was made barren, upon their return to Christ shall recover its fertility. Under this one m... [ Continue Reading ]
Holy — Shall be really holy. Jerusalem — Of the people living in or belonging to Jerusalem.... [ Continue Reading ]
When — This shall be accomplished when God hath throughly cleansed the Jewish nation from their sins. The blood — The blood — guiltiness, and especially that of killing the Lord of life. Burning — This is opposed to the former legal way of purification, which was by water. The Holy Spirit of old acc... [ Continue Reading ]
Create — Will in a marvellous manner produce, as it were by a new creation. A cloud — A pillar of cloud and fire, like that wherewith he directed the Israelites, when they came out of Egypt: whereby he implies, that God would be their protector, and their glory. The glory — Upon all that church and... [ Continue Reading ]
And there — Or, he, the Lord, shall be a tabernacle, to defend them from the heat of the sun, and other injuries of the weather.... [ Continue Reading ]