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habited on the same spot of ground it tbrmerlv was:
or the church may be meant, which in the latter day
will be greatly exalted, and will be filled with, and in-
habited by, some of all the nat. ions of the world, Isa. iS.
2, 3: from Benjamin's gate unto the place of the,first
gate; not that called the high gate of Benjamin, and
which was hoar the temple, Jer. xx. 2. and seems to
be one of its gates; and such an one there was, which
in Arabic was called Bah Alasbat, the gate of the tribes,
where was the pool of the blood of the sacrifices; and
is said to be not far from another gate, called the gate
of mercy °; but this is that which led out of the city,
and was one of its gates towards the land of Ben. inruSh,
from whence it had its name, and through which Jere-
miah attempted to go when he was stopped by the cap-
lain of the ward, Jer. xxxvii. 13. this, according to
Grotius, was on the north of Jerusalem :..Mr. Fuller {p}
places it more rightly in the north-east part of it, as
does Adrichomius {q}, who wrongly confounds it with
the corner gate after mep. tiotled, which is here mani-
festly distinguished from it; and which mistake also
Schindler {r} gives into, and likewise Arias Montanus {}
and others. The first gate is the same. with the old gate
in Neh. iii. 6. and xii. 39. Unto the corner gate; the
gate of Benjamin, and the gate of Ephraim, are the
· same, asis thought by Grotius; the distance between
that gate and the corner gate was four hundred cubits,
2 Kings xiv. 13: and from the tower of Hananeel unto
the kb,g's wine-presses; mention is made of the tower
of Hananeel in Neh. iii. 1. and xii. 39. Jet. xxxi. 38.
it was to the south of Jerusalem; and is called in the
Targum the tower of Pikkus: the king's wine-presscs
doubtless were where his vineyards were; King Solo-
man had a vineyard at Baal-hamon, Cant. viii. 11. Gro-
tins savs the place where these wine-presses were
was at Sion, in the inmost part of the city; and so
Adrichomius t places them in Mount Sion; ttlough
Kimctli speaks of them as without the city; and Jarchi
makes mention of.an .4, gadah, or exposition, :which
interprets them of the great ocean, which reaches from
Jerusalem to the end of the world, the lakes which the
King-of kings has made. Very probably these places
lay east, west, north, anti south; and so denote the am-
plitude of the city, and the largehess and extensiveness
of the church of Christ, signified thereby; see Ezek.
xlviii.
Vet. 11. And men shall dwell in it, &c.] In great
numbers, in much peace and safety,-and from genera-
tion to generation: Aben Ezra says, Messiah the son
of David will now come: and there shall be no more
utter destruction; no-wars, nor desolations by them, in
a civil sense; there shall be no more killing,.as the Tar-
gum, Isa. iS. 4. and Ix. 17, 18. no cherem, no anathema,
in a religious sense;' in the old translation it is, and
there shall be no more cursing; there will be no curse
in the Jerusalem state, Rev. xxii. S. which words seem
to be taken from hence; no cursed ,thing,-nor cursed
person, or any curse or-anathema denounced against
any; no Popish bulls and anathemas, nor any other:
but Jerusalem shall be safely inhabited; the inhabitants
of it shall dwell securely, without any apprellension of
danger, and having no enemies to fear; though, before
this safe and happy state, there will be many enemies;
and what will become of them is shewn in the follow-
ing verses.
Vet. 12. And this shall be the plagues, &c.] This
respects one or more, or all, of the seven plagues, which
will be inflicted on the antichristian states, mentioned
in Rev. xv. and xvi.: wherewith the Lord will smite all
the people that have fought against dernsalem ; who have
been the enemies and persecutors of his church; and
with which plague or plagues they shall be utterly
consumed and destroyed: their flesh shall consume
away while they stand upon their feet; anticllrist will
be consumed with the breath Of Christ's inouth; the
flesh of tlle whore of Rome, which is her substance,
shall beeatenanddevoured by thekings of the earth; and
her destruction will be in a moment, suddenly, and at
unawares, as is here suggested; see 2 Thess. ii. 8. Rev.
xvii. 16. and xviii. 8, 10: and their eyes shall consume
away in their holes; the right eye of the idol-shepherd
shall be ntterly dried up, and the kingdom of the
beast will be full of darkness, Zech. xi. 17. Rev. xvi. 10:
and their tongues shall consume away in their mouth;
with which antichrist and his ibllowers have blas-
phemed the name of God, his tabernacle, and his
saints; and which they will gnaw for pain, when the
plagues of God are inflicted on them, Rev. xiii. 5, 6.
and xvi. 9, 10, 11.
Ver. 13. And it shall come to pass in that day, &c.]
When the vials are pouring out: that a great tumult
,fi.om the Lord shall be among them; the Targum ren-
ders it, a great tumult, or noise of killing; alld the
Septuagint, an ecstacy: it refers to the earthquake,
anti the slaugtlter of seven tliousand men'of name, and
the frigllt upon that, Rev. xi. 13. and they shall lay
hold every one on the hand of his .neighbour, and shall
rise up against the hand of his neighbour ; there will be
a revolution, upon this tumult, in several of the anti-
christian states; and the kings of them shall hate the
whore, make her desolate, eat her flesh, and burn her
with fire, Rev. xvii. 16. or, his hand shall be cut off by the
hand of his neighbour.u; see Zech. xi. 17, the power.of
antichrist shall be d,estroyed by neighbouring Chris-
tian princes.
Ver. 14. And Judah also shall fight at Jerusalem,
&c.] These are the professing people of Christ, the
armies in heaven, the chosen, called, and faithful, who
will follow the Lamb, and attend him when he goes
forth to make war with the antichriStian princes, and
shall overcome them, Rev. xvii. 14. and xix. 14: a,nd
the wealth of all the Heathen round about shall be g.a-
thered together, gold and silver, and apparel, in great
abundance; by which are. meant the riches of the
Papists, .called Gentiles or Heathens, Rev. xi. 2, 18.
which will fall into the hands of the followers of
Christ at the time of Rome's destruction; and which
are signified by the flesh of the whore, and by the flesh

{o} Cippi Hebr. p. 22. Geograph. Nub. p. 114.
{p} Pisgah-Sight of Palestine, B. 3. c. 3. sect. 15. p. 322.
{q} Theatrum Terrae Sanct. p. 167.
{r} Lexic. Pentaglott. co. 1912.
{s} Nehemias, sive de Antiqu. Jerus. situ.
{t} Theatrum Terrae Sanct. Jerusalem, No. 25. p. 152.
{u} \^wher dy le wdy htlew\^ et succidetur manus ejus super manum
amici sui, Pagninus. So Aben Ezra, and R. Sol. Urbin. Ohel Moed,
fol. 43. 1.