Online Bible 1995 March/ROM-1025.iso/olb/gill/3_500_e.lzh/3_583.TXT

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\*Ver. 4. \\Their sorrows shall be multiplied\\, &c.] Not
the sorrows of the saints and excellent ones, by seeing
the idolatry of men, as Aben Ezra interprets it; but
the sorrows of such
\*\\[that] hasten [after] another [god]\\; a
false god, an idol, to serve and worship it; for, generally
speaking, idolaters are more forward, eager, and
hasty to attend a false worship, than the worshippers
of the true God are to attend his service: now their
sorrows are many, even in their worship, by cutting
their bodies with knives and lancets, as the worshippers
of Baal did; and by sacrificing their own children,
which, notwithstanding their rash and precipitate
zeal, could not fail of giving them pain and uneasiness;
and, besides temporal punishments inflicted
on them for their idolatry by God, and stings of conscience,
which must sometimes attend them, the wrath
of God lies upon them, and they will have their portion
in the lake of fire, and the smoke of their torment
will ascend for ever and ever. Some render the words,
%their idols are multiplied%; and so the Chaldee paraphrase,
\*"they multiply their idols, and after that
"hasten to offer their sacrifices;"\*
\*when men leave the
true God, they know not where to stop; the Heathens
had not less than thirty thousand gods, and the Jews
when they fell into idolatry ran in the same way, \\#Jer
2:28 11:13 Ho 8:11\\. The word %God% is not
in the original text, though the supplement is countenanced
by the Jewish writers {p}, who interpret it in
this way; but I rather think the text is to be understood
not of Heathen idolaters, but of unbelieving Jews,
who, rejecting the true Messiah, hasten after another
Messiah, king, and saviour; when Jesus the true
Messiah came they received him not; but when
another came in his own name they were eager to embrace
him, \\#Joh 5:43\\; and to this day they are hastening
after another; and in their daily prayers pray that
the coming of the Messiah might be \^hdymb\^, %in haste%,
in their days {q}; and the sense of the passage is, that
the sorrows of the Jews, rejecting the Messiah and
hastening after another, would come thick and fast
upon them, until wrath came upon them to the uttermost,
\\#Mt 24:6-8 1Th 2:16\\; and it holds
good of all, whether Jews or Gentiles, that hasten
after another Saviour; that say to the works of their
hands, that they are their gods, or go about to establish
a righteousness of their own, or seek for life and
salvation by their own doings; these, sooner or later,
will lie down in sorrow, \\#Isa 50:11\\;
\*\\their drink offerings of
blood will I not offer\\: meaning not the libations
of the Gentiles, which were not wine, according to
the law, \\#Nu 15:10\\; but blood, even sometimes
human blood; but the sacrifices of the Jews, which
were either got by blood, murders and robberies, and
on that account were hateful to God, \\#Isa 61:8\\; or
rather the sacrifices of bloodthirsty persons, whose
hands were full of blood, \\#Isa 1:11-15\\; and such were
the offerings of the priests, Scribes, and Pharisees, in
Christ's time, who were the children of them that
killed the prophets, and sought after the blood of
Christ. Or it may be rendered, %I will not offer their
drink offerings because of blood% {r}; meaning his own
blood shed for the remission of sins, which being obtained,
there remains no more offering for sin; and so
the words may express the abolition of all legal sacrifices,
and the causing of them to cease through the
blood and sacrifice of Christ. This shows the person
speaking to be a priest, and therefore could not be
David, but must be the Messiah, who is a priest after the
order of Melchizedek; and who had a better sacrifice
to other up than any of the offerings of the Jews, even
his own self, by which he has put away sin for ever.
He adds,
\*\\nor take up their names into my lips\\; not the
names of idol deities, nor of their worshippers, but of
the Jews that rejected him as the Messiah, for whom
he would not pray, \\#Joh 17:9\\; and so as he refused
to offer their sacrifices, he would not perform the
other part of his priestly office for them in intercession;
though this may also have respect to the rejection
of the Jewish nation as the people of God; writing
a %loammi%, \\#Ho 1:9\\, upon them, declaring them to be no longer
the children of the living God; leaving their names
for a curse, a taunt, and a proverb in every place; expressing
the utmost abhorrence of them, and showing
the utmost indignation at them, as persons whose names
were not worthy or fit to be mentioned, \\#Eph 5:3\\.

\*Ver. 5. \\The Lord is the portion of mine inheritance
and of my cup\\, &c.] This is said by Christ as a priest,
and in allusion to the Levitical priests, who had no
inheritance in the land of Canaan with their brethren,
but the Lord was their part and portion, and their inheritance,
\\#Nu 18:20 De 18:1,2\\; and it
expresses the strong love and affection Christ had for
the Lord as his God, the delight and pleasure he had
in him, and the satisfaction he had in the enjoyment
of him and communion with him, and that it was
his meat and drink to serve him, and to do his will;
and though his goodness did not extend to him, yet
his goodness and happiness as man lay in him: unless
the sense should be,
\*"the Lord is he who gives me
"the portion of mine inheritance;"\*
\*meaning his church and people, all the elect of God, who are
Christ's portion and inheritance, given him by the
father; see \\#De 32:9 Ps 2:8\\; And assigns
to me my cup, as of blessings, so of sorrows and sufferings,
which being measured out, filled up, and put
into his hand by his father, he freely took it, \\#Joh 18:11\\;
\*\\thou maintainest my lot; that is, either his
interest in God himself, as his covenant God, which
always continued; or the lot of goods, of grace and
glory, put into his hands for his people, which always
remains; or rather the saints themselves, who, as they
are Christ's portion and inheritance, so they are his
lot; in allusion to the land of Canaan, which was divided
by lot: these Jehovah took hold of, kept, preserved,
and upheld, as the word {s} signifies; so that they
shall never totally and finally fall and perish; and this
sense is countenanced by what follows.

{p} Jarchi, Aben Ezra, Kimchi, Ben Melech, & Abendana in loc.
{q} Seder Tephillot, fol. 128. 2.
{r} \^Mdm\^ %propter sanguinem%, Cocceius, Gejerus, Michaelis.
{s} \^Kymwt\^ %sustentas%, Musculus, Pagninus, Junius & Tremellius,
Piscator; so Ainsworth; %sustentans%, Montanus, Michaelis; %tenuisti%,
Cocceius; %tenendo quasi sustentans%, Gejerus.