This rejection and subsequent exaltation, is finely allegorized by OUR LORD, in the parable

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by a most righteous retribution!—and Hasselquist him, self, "botanized on the dry and poor Sion, and found "some common herbs there: Garlick, Buckler-Mustard, Trefoil, and Shrubby Horsetail." So completely has OUR LORD'S sentence of demolition been verified, Luke xix. 44. "And when JESUS approached, and saw the "city, he wept over it, saying, Oh! that thou hadst "known, even thou, at least in this thy day [of respite] "the things concerning thy peace! but now are they "hidden from thine eyes: for the days will come upon "thee, when thine enemies shall cast a trench about thee, and shall compass thee round, and hem thee in on every side, and shall level thee to the ground, and thy children "within thee, and shall not leave in thee one stone upon "another; because thou knowest not the season of thy "visitation!"--so often foretold, Deut, xxviii. 52, Psal. lxxix. 1, Isa. vi. 11, Dan. ix. 26, &c.

In this most pathetic apostrophe, there seems to be an elegant allusion to the name of the city Jerusalem,

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they shall see * יראו שלם compounded of (ירושלם) »

peace," Ps. cxxviii. 6, which OUR LORD here declares, was "hidden from their eyes." Its most ancient quarter was Salem, Gen. xiv. 18, founded by Melchizedek, according to Josephus, p. 1292, where there was "a taber"nacle," in David's days, Ps. lxxvi. 2. And when the City of David, in Mount Sion, was added thereto, the whole was called Jerusalem, 1 Chron. xi. 4, in allusion to the name given by Abraham, Gen. xxii. 14, to Mount Calvary

parable of "A certain man OF NOBLE "BIRTH (Evyevns) who travelled into a far "country,

Calvary, the appointed scene of his intended sacrifice, of his only genuine son Isaac; typical of the great expiatory sacrifice of the SON OF GOD, in the fulness of time, on the same spot: for, according to tradition, the altar of Isaac, was only a few yards distant from the foot of the Cross; see Sandys's Travels, p. 126. "And Abraham "called the name of that place, пr” ¡m (IAHOH IIREH) "THE LORD WILL PROVIDE," according as he had said that day, on the Mount; "THE LORD WILL "PROVIDE," &c. alluding to verse 8, 787 bx, (ÆLOHIM IIREH) "GOD WILL PROVIDE himself THE "LAMB for sacrifice, my son." For this was his ambiguous answer to the natural inquiry of Isaac," Where is "THE LAMB for sacrifice?" And that this is the correct translation and meaning of that important Text, Gen. xxii. 14, (so miserably and unintelligibly rendered in our English Bible!) will further appear from a manifest al lusion thereto, by the prophet Isaiah, xxv. 7, 8.

"And (THE LORD) will destroy on this Mount, the face
"Of the covering, which covered all the peoples,
"And the vail which was spread over all the Gentiles :
"Death shall be swallowed up in victory.

And the REGENT LORD will wipe off the tear from
"all faces,

And will remove the reproach of his people off the "whole earth;

For THE LORD hath spoken."

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"country, to acquire for himself a KING 66 DOM, and then to return: but his citizens

"hated

And as bw, Salem, signifies not only "peace" but a as, "peace-offering," or expiatory sacrifice, Exod. xx. 24, and xxiv. 5, Amos v. 22, (whence CHRIST "himself” is called "our peace," Ephes. ii. 14,) the phrase wensu, (Iireh-Salem) "Ile will provide peace," is plainly equivalent to Abraham's ambiguous prophecy-“ God will provide himself the Lamb for sacrifice,” and is admirably contrasted with the name of the city," They shall see peace;" to which OUR LORD again seems to allude and predict, Matt. xxiii. 39.

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For the clue to these etymological and topographical remarks, I was indebted to the following curious passage in Josippon, or the Pseudo-Josephus, b. vi. chap. Ixxxii. p. 362, of Gagnier's Latin translation.

"O Jerusalem! City of the Great King, by what name shall I call thee this day! Was not thy name first called (Iebus) from the name of the Jebusite, "who began to inhabit a city in thy land? Next, thy name was called pry (Tsedek); and from thy name in? Iehuram, was thy king called, pro Melchi-Tsedek, "for he was a 'just king, who reigned over thee with "justice. In his days also, thy name was called, hv

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(Salem), as is written in the Law, (Gen. xiv. 18.) "And Abraham our father, (on whom be peace,) chose "to possess thee by inheritance, and to plant in thee "the plant of his good works. Therefore the Taber"nacle of GoD, even then was settled in thee, when HE "revcaled himself to Abraham our Father, (on whom

"be

"hated him, and sent after him a message,

saying, We will not that this man should "reign over us," &c. Luke xix. 12-27.

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be peace). In thee was the place of his Sanctuary, because he bound his son, his only son, on the summit ❝of one of thy mounts, which indeed is, the Holy and "sanctified Mount Moriah. Still further wast thou en

larged, when thou wert called by the name, burjo (Ierusalem) from the name, by which Abraham our "Father, (on whom be peace) called the place of thy "Sanctuary mm Iahoh Iireh, "The Lord will "see," Already then, was thy name Salem; and there"fore thy name signifies, N, He will see peace; "because Go will see (or regard) the place of thy sanc"tuary, so long as it shall be perfect and without spot; "but He will hide his face from it, when it shall be "stained with spot, as it is this day!"

From this excellent Jewish commentary, it appears that in Abraham's days, and long after, Calvary was the holiest part of the whole Mount of Moriah, until the Temple was built; and even then, the Sanctuary or Holy of Holies, was by divine appointment, placed at the West end of Solomon's Temple, pointing to Calvary; but the Temple Hill, Ps. xlviii. 2, which was the Northern summit of Sion, (Jebus, or the City of David, occupying the Southern, or highest suminit), gradually assumed to itself the name of the whole Mount, Moriah; 2 Chron. fii. 1, and Calvary fell into strange and unmerited neglect and contempt, until it recovered and improved its pristine

sanctity

According to the Masoretic punctuation, the verb (Nasachti) is active," I or“dained” my king, &c. supposing THE SUPREME LORD to be the speaker; and this is followed by the Chaldee, Syriac, and Arabic, and almost all the modern translations: but according to the foregoing translation, the verb should be pointed passively, '??! (Nisachti)," I was ordained," supposing the Regent to declare his ordination to the regal dignity by the supreme Lord: for the Septuagint, (whose authority in this Psalm is of the highest weight, because, sanctioned by the New Testament) renders: Eya dy naτεςαθην βασιλευς ὑπ ̓ Αυτ8. "But I was ap"pointed King by Him," And is followed by the Vulgate, and the Arabic copy of Guyerus. And all these, judiciously consider the Iod final in, 2, (Melchi) not as the affix of the first person,

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my King," but

sanctity after the resurrection; being crowned with the magnificent and spacious Temple of the Holy Sepulchre, covering its whole Area, and including part of Golgotha, built by the piety and munificence of the Empress Helena, mother of Constantine the Great. On this Holu Holy Hill "of Calvary" therefore, (the true Sjon) was OUR "LORD ordained KING."

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