Online Bible 1995 March/ROM-1025.iso/olb/gill/6_200.lzh/6_207.TXT

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him; their contempt of him, and rejection of his yoke,
and non-submission to his ordinances; according to the
desert of such crimes, the Lord dealt with them;
"took vengeance on them/' as the Targum is; in the
destruction of their nation, city, and temple : and hid
my face from them; or caused his Shechinah to remove
from them, as the same paraphrase; see the note on ver. 23.
Ver. 25. Therefore thus saith the Lord, &c.] The
Jews having been long punished for their sins; and
being brought to repentance for them, and to faith in
Christ, as they will be in the latter day: hence it fol-
lows, now will I bring again the captivity of Jacob;
or the captives of Jacob, the people of Israel, that
have been carried captive into all lands; these shall
be gathered from thence, and brought into their own
land: and have mercy upon the whole house of Israel;
all the twelve tribes; which shews that this has not
respect to the return of the Jews from the Babylonish
captivity; for then the Lord had mercy on the house
of Judah only; or the two tribes of Judah and Ben-
jamin; but their return from their present captivity,
and future conversion, when all Israel shall be saved;
as the fruit and effect of the rich sovereign grace and
mercy of God unto them, Rom. xi. 0,5, 0,6: and will
be jealous for my holy name; or, zealous {} for the glory
of it, that it be no more blasphemed among the Hea-
then; and that it be glorified among his own people.
Ver. 26. After that they have borne their shame, &c.]
And disgrace, among the nations where they are scat-
tered; being captives, exiles, in distress and affliction,
and under the manifest tokens of the divine wrath and
vengeance: it may be rendered, and. they shall bear
their shame {m}; that is, as Jarchi glosses it, "when I
"shall do good to them, and not render to them ac-
"cording to their wickedness, then they shall bear
"their shame, and be confounded, and not able to
"lift up their face ;" as penitent persons, under a
sense of divine wrath, blush, and are ashamed to look
up to God; see Ezra ix. 6--10. Menachem interprets
the word in the sense of atonement and forgiveness, as
it is used in Psal. xxxii. 1. as if the meaning was, then
.they shall have their sins, which caused shame, for-
given them. Kimchi's gloss is, "they shall carry in
"their mouths, and make mention of their shame they
"had in captivity." And all their transgressions where-
by they have transgressed against me; that is, the pu-
nishment of all their trespasses in their captivity, or
the shame of them, being now brought to repentance;
and which will be aggravated to them, when they re-
member that these were committed by their fore-
fathers, and since approved of by them. When they
dwelt safely in their land, and none made them aftaid ;
as they did in the times of Christ; they. wer3 in entire
peace, and no enemy disturbed them; and were in the
possession of their own land, and enjoyed the blessings
of it, and had their religious as well as civil liberties;
and yet rejected the Messiah, his doctrine, ordinances,
and salvation by him.
Vet. 27. When I have brought them again from the
people, &c.] That is, then shall they be ashamed, anti
repent of all their trespasses and sins: and gathered
them out of their enemies lands; from the provinces of
their enemies, as the Targum; when they are col-
lected together in a body out of the several nations
where they are now dispersed, and brought to their
own land: and am santified in them in the sight of
many nations; when they shall publicly repent bf
their sins, and forsake them, and seek the Lord their
God, and the King Messiah, and embrace and profess
him, and acknowledge that God has been righteous
and holy in all his dispensations towards them.
Ver. _°8. Then shall they know that I a?n the Lord
their God, &c.] See the note on ver. 22: which caused
them to be led into captivity among the Heathen; for
their sins and transgressions: and so the Targum adds,
"because they sinned before me :" but I have gathered
them i.,do their own land; being now penitent for their
sins, and believing in the Messiah: and so the Tar-
gum, "and now, because they are converted, I have
"gathered them," &c. : and have left none of them any
more there; among the Heathen, or in the land of
their enemies; every one shall be returned to the land
of Canaan, be they- where they will, as when they
came out of Egypt: and this is typical of the salvation
of God's elect, or mystical Israel; not one of them
shall be lost or perish, but all shall be brought to re-
pentance: this again shews, that this prophecy did
not respect the return of the Jews from the Baby-.
1onish captivity; since then many were left behind.
Ver. 0,9. Neither will I hide my face any more from.
them, &c.] The Jews, upon their future conversion,
will always have the worship of God among them, and
his presence with them; he will always take notice of
them; they will ever be under his protection and
care; he will never remove his Shechinah. from
them any more, as the Targum: a further proof that
this refers to future times; for, after their return from
Babylon, God did hide his face, and remove his pre-
sence from them, and left them to ruin and destrue-.
lion by the Romans: for I have poured out my spirit.
upon the house of Israel,. saith the Lord God; this
refers not to the effusion. of the spirit on the day of
Pentecost, but to one that is yet to come, when the
Jews will be converted in the latter day; after which
God will no more depart from them, nor shall they de-
part from him; see Zech.. xii. 10.. Isa. lix. 1.9, 20, 2l.

C HAP.

This and the eight following chapters contain a. vi-
sion of a city and temple herein described, and are
thought to be the most difficult part of the whole Bible.
The Jews forbid the reading of it tilt a man is arrived
to thirty years of age; and then he must expect to
meet with things in it he does not understand, and

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cator, Cocceius, Starckius.
{m} \^Mtmlk ta wvnw\^ et portabunt, Pagninus, Montanus, V.L.
Grotius; et ferent ignominiam suam, Starckius.