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Introduction 1 2 Zephaniah Zechariah
Haggai 2
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In this chapter we have three sermons preached by the prophet
Haggai for the encouragement of those that are forward to build the temple. In
the first he assures the builders that the glory of the house they were now
building should, in spiritual respects, though not in outward, exceed that of
Solomon's temple, in which he has an eye to the coming of Christ (v. 1-9). In
the second he assures them that though their sin, in delaying to build the
temple, had retarded the prosperous progress of all their other affairs, yet now
that they had set about it in good earnest he would bless them, and give them
success (v. 10-19). In the third he assures Zerubbabel that, as a reward of
his pious zeal and activity herein, he should be a favourite of Heaven, and one
of the ancestors of Messiah the Prince, whose kingdom should be set up on the
ruins of all opposing powers (v. 20-23).
Verses 1-9
Here is, I. The date of this message, v. 1. It was sent on the
twenty-first day of the seventh month, when the builders had been about a month
at work (since the twenty-fourth day of the sixth month), and had got it in some
forwardness. Note, Those that are hearty in the service of God shall receive
fresh encouragements from him to proceed in it, as their case calls for them.
Set the wheels a going, and God will oil them.
II. The direction of this message, v. 2. The encouragements here
are sent to the same persons to whom the reproofs in the foregoing chapter are
directed; for those that are wounded by the convictions of the word shall be
healed and bound up by its consolations.
Speak to Zerubbabel, and Joshua, and
the residue of the people, the very same that
obeyed the voice of the
Lord (ch. 1:12) and whose spirits God stirred up to do so (ch. 1:14); to
them are sent these words of comfort.
III. The message itself, in which observe,
1. The discouragements which those laboured under who were
employed in this work. That which was such a damp upon them, and an alloy to
their joy, when the foundation of the temple was laid, was still a clog upon
themthat they could not build such a temple now as Solomon built, not so
large, so stately, so sumptuous, a one as that was. This fetched tears from the
eyes of many, when the dimensions of it were first laid (Ezra 3:12), and still
it made the work go on heavilythat the glory of this house,
in comparison
with that of the former, was
as nothing, v. 3. It was now about seventy
years since Solomon's temple was destroyed (for that was in the nineteenth
year of the captivity, and this about the nineteenth after the captivity), so
that there might be some yet alive who could remember to have seen it, and still
they would be upbraiding themselves and their brethren with the great disparity
between this house and that. One could remember the gold with which it was
overlaid, another the precious stones with which it was garnished; one could
describe the magnificence of the porch, another of the pillarsand where are
these now? This weakened the hands of the builders; for, though our gracious God
is pleased with us if we do in sincerity as well as we can in his service, yet
our proud hearts will scarcely let us be pleased with ourselves unless we do as
well as others whose abilities far exceed ours. And it is sometimes the fault of
old people to discourage the services of the present age by crying up too much
the performances and attainments of the former age, with which others should be
provoked to emulation, but not exposed to contempt.
Say not thou that the
former days were better than these (Eccl. 7:10), but thank God that there is
any good in these, bad as they are.
2. The encouragement that is given them to go on in the work,
notwithstanding (v. 4):
Yet now, though this house is likely to be much
inferior to the former,
be strong, O Zerubbabel! and be strong, O Joshua!
Let not these leading men give way to this suggestion, nor be disheartened by
it, but do as well as they can, when they cannot do so well as they would; and
let
all the people of the land be strong too,
and work; and, if
the leaders have but a good heart on it, it is hoped that the followers will
have the better heart. Note, Those that work for God ought to exert themselves
with vigour, and then to encourage themselves with hope that it will end well.
3. The grounds of these encouragements. God himself says to
them,
Fear you not (v. 5), and he gives good reasons for it.
(1.) They have God with them, his Spirit and his special
presence:
Be strong, for I am with you, saith the Lord of hosts, v. 4.
This he had said before (ch. 1:13),
I am with you. But we need to have
these assurances repeated, that we may have strong consolation. The presence of
God with us, as the
Lord of hosts, is enough to silence all our fears and
to help us over all the discouragements we may meet with in the way of our duty.
The Jews had hosts against them, but they had the Lord of hosts with them, to
take their part and plead their cause. He is with them; for, [1.] He adheres to
his promise. His covenant is inviolable, and he will be always theirs, and will
appear and act for them,
according to the word that he covenanted with them
when they came out of Egypt. Though
he chastens them for their
transgressions with the rod, yet he will not make his faithfulness to fail.
[2.] He dwells among them by his Spirit, the Spirit of prophecy. When he first
formed them into a people
he gave his good Spirit to instruct them (Neh.
9:20); and still the Spirit, though often grieved and provoked to withdraw,
remained among them. It was the Spirit of God that stirred up their spirits to
come out of Babylon (Ezra 1:5), and now to build the temple, Hag. i. 14. Note,
We have reason to be encouraged as long as we have the Spirit of God remaining
among us to work upon us, for so long we have God with us to work for us.
(2.) They shall have the Messiah among them shortly
him
that should come. To him bore all the prophets witness and this prophet
particularly here, v. 6, 7. Here is an intimation of the time of his coming,
that it should not be long ere he came:
"Yet once, it is a little while,
and he shall come. The Old-Testament church has but one stage more (if we may
say so) to travel; five stages were now past, from Adam to Noah, thence to
Abraham, thence to Moses, thence to Solomon's temple, thence to the captivity,
and now yet one stage more, its sixth day's journey, and then comes the
sabbatism of the Messiah's kingdom. Let the Son of man, when he comes, find
faith on the earth, and let the children of promise continue still looking for
him, for now it is but
a little while and he will come;
hold out,
faith and patience, yet awhile, for
he that shall come will come, and
will not tarry." And, as he then said of his first appearance, so now
of his second,
Surely I come quickly. Now concerning his coming it is
here foretold, [1.] That it shall be introduced by a general shaking (v. 6):
I
will shake the heavens, and the earth, and the sea, and the dry land. This
is applied to the setting up of Christ's kingdom in the world, to make way for
which he will
judge among the heathen, Ps. 110:6. God will once again do
for his church as he did when he brought them out of Egypt; he shook the heavens
and earth at Mount Sinai, with thunder, and lightnings, and earthquakes; he
shook the sea and the dry land when lanes were made through the sea and streams
fetched out of the rock. This shall be done again, when, at the sufferings of
Christ, the sun shall be darkened, the earth shake, the rocks rendwhen, at
the birth of Christ, Herod and all
Jerusalem are troubled (Mt. 2:3), and
he is
set for the fall and rising again of many. When his kingdom was set
up it was with a shock to the nations; the oracles were silenced, idols were
destroyed, and the powers of the kingdoms were moved and removed, Heb. 12:27. It
denotes
the removing of the things that are shaken. Note, The shaking of
the nations is often in order to the settling of the church and the establishing
of the things that cannot be shaken. [2.] That it shall issue in a general
satisfaction. He shall come as
the desire of all nationsdesirable to
all nations, for
in him shall all the families of the earth be blessed
with the best of blessingslong expected and desired by the good people in all
nations, that had any intelligence from the Old-Testament predictions concerning
him. Balaam in the land of Moab had spoken of a star that should arise out of
Jacob, and Job in the land of Uz of his living Redeemer; the concourse of devout
men from all parts at Jerusalem (Acts 2:5) was in expectation of the setting up
of the Messiah's kingdom about that time. All the nations that are brought in
to Christ, and discipled in his name, have called him, and will call him,
all
their salvation and all their desire. This glorious title of Christ seems to
refer to Jacob's prophecy (Gen. 49:10), that
to him shall the gathering of
the people be.
(3.) The house they are now building shall be filled with glory
to such a degree that its glory shall exceed that of Solomon's temple. The
enemies of the Jews followed them with reproach, and cast contempt upon the
house they were building; but they might very well endure that when God
undertook to fill it with glory. It is God's prerogative to fill with glory;
the glory that comes from him is satisfying, and not vain glory. Moses's
tabernacle and Solomon's temple were filled with glory when God in a cloud
took possession of them; but this house shall be filled with glory of another
nature. [1.] Let them not be concerned because this house will not have so much
silver and gold about it as Solomon's temple had, v. 8. God needs not the
silver and gold to adorn his temple, for (says he),
The silver is mine, and
the gold is mine. All the silver and gold in the world are his; all that is
hid in the bowels of the earth (for
the earth is the Lord's and the fulness
thereof), all that is laid up in the exchequers, banks, and treasuries of
the children of men, and all that circulates for the maintaining of trade and
commerce; it is all
the Lord's. Every penny bears his image as well as
Caesar's; and therefore when gold and silver are dedicated to his honour, and
employed in his service, no addition is made to him, for it was his before. When
David and his princes offered vast sums for the service of the house of God,
they acknowledged,
It is all thy own, and of thy own, Lord, have we given
thee, 1 Chr. 29:14, 16. Therefore God needs not sacrifice, for
every
beast of the forest is his, Ps. 50:10. Note, If we have silver and gold, we
must serve and honour God with them, for they are all his own, we have but the
use of them, the property remains in him; but, if we have not silver and gold to
honour him with, we must honour him with such as we have, and he will accept us,
for he needs them not; all the
silver and gold in the world are his
already.
The earth is full of his riches, so
is the great and wide sea
also. [2.] Let them be comforted with this, that, though this temple have
less gold in it, it shall have more glory than Solomon's (v. 9):
The glory
of this latter house shall be greater than of the former. This was never
true in respect of outward glory. This latter house was indeed in its latter
times very much beautified and enriched by Herod, and we find the disciples
admiring the stones and buildings of the temple, how fine they were (Mk. 13:1);
but it was nothing in comparison with Solomon's temple; and, besides, the Jews
own that several of the divine glories of the first temple were wanting in thisthe
ark, the
urim and
thummim, the
fire from heaven, and
the
Schechinah; so that we cannot conceive how the glory of this latter
house should in any thing exceed that of the former, but in that which would
indeed excel all the glories of the first housethe presence of the Messiah in
it, the Son of God, his being presented there
the glory of his people Israel,
his attending there at twelve years old, and afterwards his preaching and
working miracles there, and his driving the buyers and sellers out of it. It was
necessary, then, that the Messiah should come while the second temple stood;
but, that being long since destroyed, we must conclude that our Lord Jesus is
the Christ, is
he that should come, and we are to
look for no other.
It was also the
glory of this latter house, First, That, before the
coming of Christ, it was always kept free from idols and idolatries, and was
never polluted with those abominable things, as the first temple often was (2 Ki.
23:11, 12), and in this its glory excelled all the glory of that. Note, The
purity of the church, and the strict adherence to divine institutions, are much
more its glory than external pomp and splendour.
Secondly, That, after
Christ, the gospel was preached in it by the apostles, even all the words of
this life, Acts 5:20. In the temple Jesus Christ was daily preached, Acts 5:42.
Now the ministration of righteousness and life by the gospel was unspeakably
more glorious than the law, which was a
ministration of death and
condemnation, 2 Co. 3:9, 10. Note, That is the most valuable glory which
arises from our relation to Christ and our interest in him. As, where Christ is,
behold a greater than Solomon is there, so the heart in which he dwells,
and makes a living temple, behold it is more glorious than Solomon's temple,
and will be so to eternity.
(4.) They should see a comfortable end of their present
troubles, and enjoy the pleasure of a happy settlement:
In this place will I
give peace, saith the Lord of hosts. Note, God's presence with his people
in his ordinances secures to them all good. If God be with us, peace is with us.
But the Jews under the latter temple had so much trouble that we must conclude
this promise to have its accomplishment in that spiritual peace which Jesus
Christ has by his blood purchased for, and by his last will and testament
bequeathed to, all believers (Jn. 14:27), that peace which Christ himself
preached as the prophet of peace, and gives as the prince of peace. God will
give
peace in this place; he will give his Son to be the peace, Eph. 2:14.
Verses 10-19
This sermon was preached two months after that in the former
part of the chapter. The priests and Levites preached constantly, but the
prophets preached occasionally; both were good and needful. We have need to be
taught our duty
in season and out of season. The people were now going on
vigorously with the building of the temple, and in hopes shortly to have it
ready for their use and to be employed in the services of it; and now God sends
them a message by his prophet, which would be of use to them.
I. By way of conviction and caution. They were now engaged in a
very good work, but they were concerned to see to it, not only that it was good
for the matter of it, but that it was done in a right manner, for otherwise it
would not be accepted of God. God sees there are many among them that spoil this
good work, by going about it with unsanctified hearts and hands, and are likely
to gain no advantage to themselves by it; these are here convicted, and all are
warned thereby to purify the hands they employ in this work, for
to the pure
only
all things are pure, and from the pure only that comes which is
pure. This matter is here illustrated by the established rules of the ceremonial
law, in putting
a difference between the clean and the unclean, about
which many of the appointments of the law were conversant. Hereby it appears
that a spiritual use is to be made of the ceremonial law, and that it was
intended, not only as a divine ritual to the Jews, but for
instruction in
righteousness to all, even to us upon whom the ends of the world have come,
to discover to us both sin and Christ, both our disease and our remedy. Now
observe here,
1. What the rule of the law was. The prophet is ordered to
enquire of the priests concerning it (v. 11); for their
lips should
keep
this
knowledge, and the people should
enquire the law at their mouth,
Mal. 2:7. Haggai himself, though a prophet, must
ask the priests concerning
the law. His business, as an extraordinary messenger, was to expound the
providences of God, and to give directions concerning particular duties, as he
had done, ch. 1:8, 9. But he would not take the priests' work out of the hands
of those who were the ordinary ministers, and whose business it was to expound
the ordinances of God, to teach the people the meaning of them, and to give the
general rules for the observance of them. In a case of that nature, Haggai must
himself consult them. Note, God has given to his ministers diversities of gifts,
and calls them out to do diversities of services, so that they have need one of
another, should make use one of another, and be helpful one to another. The
prophet, though divinely inspired, cannot say to the priest,
I have no need
of thee, nor can the priest say so to the prophet. Perhaps Haggai was
therefore
ordered to consult the priests, that out of their own mouths he might judge both
them and the people committed to their charge, and convict them of worse than
ceremonial pollution. See Lev. 10:10, 11. Now the rules of the law, in the cases
propounded, are, (1.) That he that has holy flesh in his clothes cannot by the
touch of his clothes communicate holiness (v. 12):
If one bear holy flesh in
the skirt of his garment, though the garment is thereby so far made a
devoted thing as that it is not to be put to common use till it has first been
washed in the holy place (Lev. 6:27), yet it shall by no means transmit a
holiness to either meat or drink, so as to make it ever the better to those that
use it. (2.) That he that is ceremonially unclean by the touch of a dead body
does by his touch communicate that uncleanness. The law is express (Num. 19:22),
Whatsoever the unclean person touches shall be unclean; yet this Haggai
will have from the priests' own mouth, for concerning those things that we
find very plain in our Bibles yet it is good to have the advice of our
ministers. The sum of these two rules is that pollution is more easily
communicated than sanctification; that is (says Grotius), There are many ways of
vice, but only one of virtue, and that a difficult one.
Bonum oritur ex
integris; malum ex quolibet defectuGood implies perfection; evil commences
with the slightest defect. Let not men think that living among good people
will recommend them to God if they are not good themselves, but let them fear
that touching the unclean thing will defile them, and therefore let them keep at
a distance from it.
2. How it is here applied (v. 14):
So is this people, and so
is this nation, before me. He does not call them his people and his nation
(they are unworthy to be owned by him), but
this people, and
this
nation. They have been thus before God; they thought their offering
sacrifices on the altar would sanctify them, and excuse their neglect to build
the temple, and remove the curse which by that neglect they had brought upon
their common enjoyments: "No," says God, "your holy flesh and
your altar will be so far from sanctifying your meat and drink, your wine and
oil, to you, that your contempt of God's temple will bring a pollution, not
only on your common enjoyments, but even on your sacrifices too; so that while
you continued in that neglect all was unclean to you, nay, and
so is this
people still; and so they will be; on these terms they will still stand with
me, and on no otherthat if they be profane, and sensual, and morally impure,
if they have wicked hearts, and live wicked lives, though they work ever so hard
at the temple while it is building, and though they offer ever so many and
costly sacrifices there when it is built, yet that shall not serve to sanctify
their meat and drink to them, and to give them a comfortable use of them; nay,
the impurity of their hearts and lives shall make even that work of their hands,
and all their offerings, unclean, and an abomination to God." And the case
is the same with us. Those whose devotions are plausible, but whose conversation
is wicked, will find their devotions unable to sanctify their enjoyments, but
their wickedness prevailing to pollute them. Note, When we are employed in any
good work we should be jealous over ourselves, lest we render it unclean by our
corruptions and mismanagements.
II. By way of comfort and encouragement. If their hearts be
right with God, and their eye single in his service, they shall have the benefit
of their devotion. God will take away the judgment of famine wherewith they have
been corrected for their remissness, and will restore them great plenty. This
they are called to consider, and to observe whether God would not be to the
utmost as good as his word, and by his providence remarkably countenance and
recompense their reformation in this matter. To make this the more signal, let
them set down the day when they began to work at the building of the temple, to
raise the structure upon the foundations that had been laid some time before. On
the twenty-fourth day of the sixth month they began to prepare materials (ch.
1:15), and now on the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month they began to
lay
a stone upon a stone in the temple of the Lord; let them take notice of this
day, and observe, 1. How they had gone behind-hand in their estates before this
day. Let them remember the time when there was a sensible waste and decay in all
they had, v. 16. A man went to his garner, expecting to find
a heap of twenty
measures of corn, so much he used to have from such a piece of ground, or so
much used to be left at that time of the year, or so much he took it for granted
there was when he fetched the last from it, but he found it unaccountably
diminished, and, when he came to measure it,
there were but ten measures;
it had run in and dried away in the keeping, or vermin had eaten it, or it was
stolen. In like manner he went to
the wine-press, expecting to draw
fifty
vessels of wine, for so much he used to have from such a quantity of grapes,
but they did not yield as usual, for he could get
but twenty. This agrees
with what we had, ch. 1:9,
You looked for much, and it came to little.
Note, It is our folly that we are apt to raise our expectation from the
creature, and to think tomorrow must needs be as this day and much more
abundant, but we are commonly disappointed, and the more we expect the more
grievous the disappointment is. In the stores and treasures of the new covenant
we need not fear being disappointed when we come by faith to draw from them. But
this was not all. God did visibly contend with them in the weather (v. 17):
I
smote you with blastings, winds and frosts, which made every green thing to
wither,
and with mildew, which choked the corn when it was knitting,
and
with hail, which battered it down and broke it when it had grown to some
maturity; thus they were disappointed
in all the labour of their hands,
while they neglected to lay their hand to the work of God and to labour in that.
Note, While we take no care of God's interest we cannot expect he should take
care of ours. And, when he thus walks contrary to us, he expects that we should
return to him and to our duty. But this people either saw not the hand of God in
it (imputing it to chance) or saw not their own sin as the provoking cause of
it, and therefore turned not to him. They were a long time incorrigible and
unhumbled under these rebukes, so that God's hand was
stretched out still,
for
the people turned not to him that smote them, Isa. 9:12, 13. They
might easily observe that as long as they continued in neglect of the temple
work all their affairs went backward. But, 2. Let them now observe, and they
should find that from this day forward God would bless them (v. 18, 19):
"Consider
now whether when you begin to change you way towards God you do not find God
changing his way towards you; from
this day, when you fall to work about
the temple,
consider it, I say, and you shall find a remarkable turn
given for the better to all your affairs.
Is the seed yet in the barn?
Yes it is, and not yet thrown into the ground. The fruit-trees do not as yet
bud,
the vine, and the fig-tree, and the olive-tree, have not as
yet
brought forth, so that nothing appears to promise a good harvest or vintage
next year. Nature does not promise it; but now that you begin to apply in good
earnest to your duty, the God of nature promises it; he has said,
From this
day I will bless you. It is the best day's work you ever did in your
lives, for hence you may date the return of your prosperity." He does not
say what they shall be, but, in general,
I will bless you; and those that
know what are the fruits flowing from God's blessing know they can desire no
more to make them happy.
"I will bless you, and then you shall soon
recover all your losses, shall thrive as fast as before you went backward; for
the
blessing of the Lord, that maketh rich, and those
whom he blesses are
blessed indeed." Note, When we begin to make conscience of our duty to
God we may expect his blessing; and this tree of life is so known by its fruits
that one may discern almost to a day a remarkable turn of Providence in favour
of those that return in a way of duty; so that they and others may say that
from
this day they are blessed. See Mal. 3:10. And
whoso is wise will observe
these things, and understand by them
the lovingkindness of the Lord.
Verses 20-23
After Haggai's sermon
ad populum
to the people,
here follows one, the same day,
ad magistratum
to the magistrates,
a word directed particularly to
Zerubbabel, the governor of Judah, who
was a leading active man in this good work which the people now set about, and
therefore he shall have some particular marks put upon him (v. 21):
Speak to
Zerubbabel, governor of Judah, speak to him by himself. He has thoughts in
his head far above those of the common people, as wise princes are wont to have,
who move in a higher and larger sphere than others. The people of the land are
in care about their corn-fields and vineyards; God has assured them that they
shall prosper, and we hope that will make them easy; but Zerubbabel is concerned
about the community and its interests, about the neighbouring nations, and the
revolutions of their governments, and what will become of the few and feeble
Jews in those changes and convulsions, and how such a poor prince as he is
should be able to keep his ground and serve his country. "Go to him,"
says God, "and tell him it shall be well with him and his remnant, and let
that make him easy."
I. Let him expect to hear of great commotions in the nations of
the earth, and let them not be a surprise to him; behold, he is told of them
before (v. 21, 22):
I will shake the heavens and the earth. This he had
said before (v. 6, 7), and now says it again to Zerubbabel; let him expect
shaking times, universal concussions. The world is like the sea, like the wheel,
always in motion, but sometimes in a special manner turbulent. But, Blessed be
God, if the earth be shaken, it is to
shake the wicked out of it, Job
38:13. In the apocalyptic visions earthquakes bode no ill to the church. Here
the heavens and the earth are shaken, that proud oppressors may be broken and
brought down:
I will overthrow the throne of kingdoms. The Chaldean
monarchy, which had been the throne of kingdoms a great while, was already
overthrown; and the powers that are, and are yet to come, shall in like manner
be overthrown; their day will come to fall. 1. Though they be ever so powerful,
yet the
strength of their kingdoms shall be destroyed. They
trust in
chariots and horses (Ps. 20:7), but their
chariots shall be
overthrown,
and
those that ride in them, so that they shall not be able to attack the
people of God, whom they persecute, not to escape the judgments of God, which
persecute them. 2. Though there appear none likely to be the instruments of
their destruction, yet God will bring it about, for they shall be brought down
every
one by the sword of his brother. This reads the doom of all the enemies of
God's church, that will not repent to give him glory; it seems likewise
designed as a promise of Christ's victory over the powers of darkness, his
overthrow of Satan's throne, that
throne of kingdoms, the throne of the
god of this world, the taking from him all the armour wherein he trusted and
dividing
the spoil. And all opposing
rule, principality, and power, shall be
put down, that the
kingdom may be
delivered up to God, even the
Father.
II. Let him depend upon it that he shall be safe under the
divine protection in the midst of all these commotions, v. 23. Zerubbabel was
active to build God a house, and therefore God makes the same promise to him as
he did to David on the like occasionthat he would
build him a house,
and establish it, even
in that day when heaven and earth are shaken. This
promise refers to this good man himself and to his family. He honoured God, and
God would honour him. His successors likewise in the government of Judah might
take encouragement from it; though their authority was very precarious as to
men, yet God would confirm it, and this would contribute to the stability of the
people over whom God had set them. But this promise has special reference to
Christ, who lineally descended from Zerubbabel, and is the sole builder of the
gospel-temple. 1. Zerubbabel is here owned as
God's servant, and it is
an honourable mention that is hereby made of him, as Moses and David
my
servants. When God destroys his enemies he will prefer his servants. Our
Lord Jesus is his Father's servant in the work of redemption, but faithful as
a Son, Isa. 42:1. 2. He is owned as God's elect:
I have chosen thee to
this office; and whom God makes choice of he will make use of. Our Lord Jesus is
chosen of God, 1 Pt. 2:4. And he is the head of the chosen remnant; in him they
are chosen. 3. It is promised that, being chosen, God will make him
as a
signet. Jeconiah had been as the
signet on God's right hand, but
was
plucked thence (Jer. 22:24); and now Zerubbabel is substituted in the
room of him. He shall be near and dear to God, precious in his sight, and
honourable, and his family shall continue till the Messiah spring out of it, who
is
the signet on God's right hand. This intimates, (1.) The delight the
Father has in him. In him he once and again declared himself to be
well
pleased. He is set as a
seal upon his heart, a seal upon his arm, is
brought near unto him (Dan. 7:13), is
hidden in the shadow of his hand,
Isa. 49:2. (2.) The dominion the Father has entrusted him with. Princes sign
their edicts, grants, and commissions, with their signet-rings, Esth. 3:10. Our
Lord Jesus is the signet on God's right hand, for all power is given to him
and derived from him. By him the great charter of the gospel is signed and
ratified, and it is in him that all the promises of God are yea and amen.
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