Online Bible 1995 March/ROM-1025.iso/olb/gill/5_100_p.lzh/5_169.TXT

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a pleasure to the church of God, signified by Jacob,
when they shall observe a greatnumber of Jacob's pos-
terity, or of the Jews, born again, become the children
of the church, born in her, and nursed up at her side,
dandled on her knees, and sucking at the breasts .of her
consolation; and so in the midst of her, members of
her, and in communion with her, having been begotten
again, by means of her ministen, through the Gospel,
by the spirit and grace of God; and so the work of his
hands, his new creatures, formed for and by himself;
Iris workmanship, created iff Jesus' Christ, curiously
wrought by his hands, as well as engraven on them:
they shall sanctify my name; meaning either the spi-
ritual seed of Jacob, those regenerated ones, the nation
that shall be born at once; these shall sanctify the
name of the Lord, not by making, but by declaring
him to be holy ;.-by believing in his name; by seeking
to him for righteousness and holiness; by embracing
his doctrines, and submitting to his ordinances; which
willadd to the pleasure of the church of Christ. So
the Vulgate Latin version renders it, but when he seeth
his children--sanctz.'fying my name; or else Jacob, that
is, the church of Christ, is here meant, who, upon Seeing
such a large number of Jewish converts, shall sanctify
the name of the Lord, or give him praise and glory on
account of it; which is repeated with some addition,
and sanctzfy the holy One of Jacob, and shall fear the
God of Israel; reverence his name and his sanctuary,
his word and his ordinances, worship him inwardly
and outwardly, fear the I.ord and his goodness, both
the church and these new converts, Hos..iii. 5.
Ver. e4. They also that erred in spirit, &c.] In
judgment, and in spiritual things; as the Jews have
done, ever since the Messiah's coming, .being given up
to a spirit of error, as the Targum, on ver. 10,. calls it;
they have erred'concerning.the Scriptures, and the pro-
phecies of them; concerning the Messiah, his work
and office; concerning his truths and his ordinances,
and by preferring their traditions to the word of God:
but these shall come to understanding; to a spiritual
understanding of Christ, and salvation by him; of his
Gospel, and the doctrines of it; as well as of themselves,
their state and condition: and they that.murmured; at
Christ, and what was delivered by him; at the recep-
tion of sinners by him; at the calling of the Gentiles;
and at the providences of God that have artended them,
ever since tbeir rejection of the true Messiah: shall
learn doctrine; the doctrine of the Messiah; not the
law, as Kimchi and Ben Melec'h; but the Gospel,
Which Christ received from his Father, as the word f
used signifies, and his disciples received from him, and
the church has received from them, and has been
transmitted to us Gentiles, and will be to the Jews in
the latter day, who will learn the true knowledge
of it.

C H A P. XXX.

This chapter contains a complaint of the Jews for
their sins and transgressions; a prophecy of their de-
struction for them; a promise of grace and mercy, and
of happy times, to the saints; and a threatening of
utter and dreadful ruin to the wicked. The Jews are
complained of for their rebellion against God, their
slighting his counsel and protection, their trust in
Egypt, and application there for help; whither they
went with their riches for safety, but in vain, it being
contrary to the will and counsel of God, ver. 1,
4, 5, 6, 7. next follows a denunciation of ruin and de-
struction for these things, rebellion, and lying, and
vain confidence, as well as for contempt of the word
of God, which, that it might appear sure and certain,
is ordered to be written in a book, ver. 8, 9, 10, 11, 12.
and this ruin is signified by the sudden falling of a
wall, and by the breaking of a potter's vessel into
pieces, which can never be used more, ver. 13, 14. and
seeing they rejected the way of salvation proposed by
the Lord, and took their own way, first destruction is
threatened them, which should be very easily brought
about, and become so general, that few should escape
it, ver. 15, 16, 17. and then promises of grace and mercy
are made to them that wait for the Lord, ver. 18. such
as a dwelling-place in Zion, hearing their prayers, grant-
ing them teachers to instruct them, and the riddance
of idolatry from them, ver. 19, 20, 21, 22. and also
many outward blessings, as seasonable rain, good
bread-corn, fat pastures, good food for cattle, and fruit-
fulness of mountains and hills, ver. 23, 24, 25. likewise
an amazing degree of spiritual light and glory, and
healing of the Lord's people, ver. 26. and the chapter
is concluded with a threatening Of God's wrath upon
the Assyrian, expressed by various similes, as of an
angry man, an overflowing torrent, a tempest of thun-
der, lightning, ,and hail, and the fire of Tophet, ver.
27--33.
Ver. 1. Woe to the rebellious children, saith the Lord,
&c.] The JeWs, who were, by national adoption, and
by outward profession of religion, the children of God,
but were apostates from him, had- turned their backs
upon him, deviated from his law, and departed from
his worship and ordinances; and therefore a woe is
pronounced against them, or they are called upon to
consider of their evil ways, and return, that iniquity
might not be their ruin: that take counsel, but not of
me; they met and consulted together abou't their
safety, when in danger, but did not ask counsel of the
Lord; they did not consult his word, nor his prophets,
nor by Urim and Thummim, as in case of war they
should more especially: and that cover with a covering,
but not of my spirit; they sought for a cover, a shelter,
a protection from the enemy, but not from the spirit
of the Lord, in his word and prophets, who would
have directed them to a more suitable and sufficient
one. Kimchi understands this of their covert and se-
cret counsels, which they laid deep, as they fancied,
and sought to hide. The Targum of the former clause

{f} \^tql\^ a \^xql\^ capere, accipere, est id quod aliquis sibi
sumit dicendum, Gusset. Ebr. Comment. p. 443.