mentators, David Kimchi, Aben Ezra, Solomon Jarchi, &c. cited by De Rossi.

In the enumeration of the titles of THE MESSIAH which follows, as uttered by THE ALMIGHTY himself, "THE MIGHTY,"is supported by Isa. ix. 6, styling Him "MIGHTY GOD," as appropriated to JESUS by the archangel Gabriel, Luke i. 32,-" HE "shall be GREAT, and shall be called SON 44 OF THE MOST HIGH, and THE LORD "GOD shall give unto him the throne of DAVID, his Father" [according to the flesh].

"THE CHOSEN," "THE BELOVED," is supported likewise by Isaiah, xlii. 1, &c. according to the rendering of Matt. xii. 18, rectifying the gross and palpable corruptions of the Septuagint version of that

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passage: "Behold My servant, whom I have CHOSEN; My Beloved, in whom My soul is well

pleased!" A rendering twice solemnly sanctioned by a voice from heaven, at our Lord's baptism, Matt. iii. 17, and again at His transfiguration, Matt. xvii. 5, "THIS "IS MY SON, THE BELOVED, IN WHOM "I AM WELL PLEASED!"

20. And as I have changed the proper name David into an appellation "the Be"loved," upon such permanent authority, referring thereto: so, on the other hand, I have retained the original term MESSIAH, as a proper name, instead of the appellation "Anointed," because it is exclusively applied, in sundry passages of the Old and New Testament, to JESUS CHRIST, as in the very first remarkable prophecy wherein it is introduced, 1 Sam. ii. 10: "THE LORD shall

give strength unto his KING: and exalt "the horn of his MESSIAH"-which was delivered in the time of the Judges, several years before there was any king in Israel, And again repeated in that noble psalm, probably composed by Solomon, on the dedication of his temple, Ps. cxxxii. 10-17. Compare 2 Chron. vi. 42. "For thy servant "DAVID's sake, turn not away the face of "thy MESSIAH"-" There will I make the "horn of DAVID to flourish; I have or“dained a lamp for my MESSIAH.”—This verse doth mystically refer to CHRIST, the Jews confess, as Dr. Hammond hath observed: so saith R. Saadiah, "The Lamp"

is THE KING which illuminates the nations; and Kimchi saith, "The Horn of David is "THE MESSIAH."-And so saith the pious bishop Horne, in his commentary on this passage; and yet so strongly "were his 66 eyes holden" with "the received hypo"thesis" of the double interpretation of the Psalms, that he could not see, 1. the indecorum of Solomon's supposed petition—ver. 10, "Turn not away the face of thy Anointed” -meaning by "thy Anointed," Solomon himself! and 2, the strange perversion of the phrase "turn not away"-" that GoD "would not confound or put Solomon to "shame, by denying his request," in direct contradiction to the instance the bishop himself adduces, 1 Kings ii. 16, where Adonijah says to Bathsheba, "And now I ask one "petition of thee;"-" Turn not away thy face," or," deny me not."-JESUS CHRIST indeed, as we learn from the higher authority of the NEW TESTAMENT, was the sole "Horn of salvation to Israel, whom

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GOD raised up in the house of David His servant," Luke i. 69.-" Who was anointed "with the HOLY GHOST and with power,"

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for GOD was with him." Acts x. 38.-And in the next revision, by authority, of our English Bible, it would be well, if the term Messiah were substituted for Anointed in such appropriate passages; it is judiciously retained, Dan. ix. 25-26, "MESSIAH the "prince"" MESSIAH shall be cut off."

Although THE MESSIAH was to be born of the house and lineage of David," as accomplished in JESUS CHRIST, Luke ii. 4, yet, by a seeming contradiction, he was to be" chosen out of the people," according to the psalmist, as foretold also by Moses, Deut. xviii. 15: THE LORD THY GOD "will raise up unto thee a PROPHET, from "the midst of thee, like unto Me," [in legislation, miracles, and intercourse with heaven] and this actually took place when the house of David was reduced to poverty. Hence the Jews were so often offended with JESUS, on account of the meanness of his condition: - "Is not this the Carpenter's "Son ?"—" Is not this the Carpenter?"And our Lord himself pathetically remarks: The foxes have holes, and the birds of the "air, nests; but the SON OF MAN hath not

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where to lay his head!"— And “ Mary Magdalene, and other pious women, mi"nistered to his wants of their substance.'

22. "The enemy shall not deceive Him". as the serpent deceived Eve. Aben Ezra.

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27. "THE FIRST BORN," or invested with the peculiar privileges of heirship, above all powers, principalities, and dominions, not only on earth, but in heaven: conferred upon JESUS at his resurrection, as before remarked Heb. i. 2-6. See Dissert. III. and the parailel passages there referred to.

SO. "If his children," &c. This parenthetical clause is an obvious commentary on that, descriptive of the persecution of the MESSIAH, by the Jews, and their punishment, introduced incidentally in Nathan's original prophecy ("Whosoever [shall be "concerned] in injuring Him," &c.) as stated in the foregoing Dissertation. And their persecution of Him is more fully unfolded by DAVID, in the second and twenty-second Psalms, and alluded to by Solomon in Psal. cxxxii. 18, "His enemies will I clothe with "shame; but upon Himself shall His crown