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to one another, and the I, ord Christ; see Matt. iii. 5, 6.
and the note onLuke i. 17. The Talmudists {} interpret
this of composing differences, and making peace.
Lest I come and smite the earth with a curse; the land
of Judea; which, because the greater part of the in-
habitants of it were not converted to the Lord, did
not believe in the Messiah, but rejected him, notwith-
standing the preaching and testimony of John the Bap-
tist, and the ministry and miracles of Christ, it was
smitten with a curse, was made desolate, and destroyed
by the Roman emperors, Vespasian and Adrian, as
instrument8 doing what God here threatened he would
do; tbr not the whole earth is intended, as the Tar-
gum and Abarbinel suggest; but only that land, and
the people of it, are intended, to whom the law of
Moses was given; and to whom Elias, or John the
Baptist, was to be sent; and to whom he was sent, and
did come; and by whom he was rejectcd, and also
the Messiah he pointed at ; for which that country was
smitten with a curse, and remains under it to this day.
{t} Massachet Ediot, c. 8. sect. 7.