Notes on Scripture. SKETCHES OF PROPHECY, No. II.-ZECH. XI. 12, REFERRED TO IN Matt. XXVI. 15; VER. 13, QUOTED IN MATT. XXVII. 6–10; CHAP XII. 10, QUOTED IN JOHN XIX. 37; VER. 12-14, REFERRED TO IN MATT. XXIV. 30, AND REV. I. 7; CHAP. XIII. 7, QUOTED IN MATT. XXVI. 31, AND MARK XIV. 27. Context in prophecy, Zech. xi.—xiv. Contexts in quotations, Matt. xxiv. 29–34, xxvi. 14–56, xxvii. 3–10; Mark xiv. 10-50; John xix. 2–37; Rev. i. 5–7. Announcement of desolation to Judea, Zech. xi. 1–3. In consequence of God's shepherd being smitten by Israel, Zech. xiii. 7. God's shepherd, Messiah, God and man, Zech. xiii. 7. Zechariah, Zech. xi. 4. Desolation partly shewn in howling of shepherds, Zech. xi. 3. Because of unfaithfulness of shepherds, Zech. xi. 5; Flock, people of Israel, Zech. xi. 11; Ezek. xxxiv. 8. God's shepherd sent to Israel, Zechariah, Zech. xi. 7-11. Messiah, Matt. xiii. 7. Rejection of God's shepherd, Zech. xi. 8, xiii. 7. Israel's valuation of the worth of God's shepherd, Zechariah, Zech. xi. 12. Messiah, Matt. xxvi. 15. God's rejection of Israel, Zech. xi. 8, 9, 10. Judgment, a foolish shepherd sent, Zech. xi. 15, 16. who should teach idolatry, Zech. xi. 17. want of the Word of God, Zech. xi. 9; Amos viii. 11. Exemplified in Israel since rejection of Messiah. Purchase of the potter's field, Zech. xi. 13; Matt. xxvii. 5-10. Messiah betrayed, Zech. xi. 12; Matt. xxvi. 14-16, 47-50. Messiah smitten, Zech. xii. 10, xiii. 7; Dan. ix. 26; Matt.xxvii. 35; John xix. 34. Israel, rejecting Messiah, given up to bad government, Zech. xi. 16; Ezek. xxxiv. 5, 6; Matt. xxiii. 38, 39. To continue so until cleansed from sin and uncleanness, Zech. xiii. 1, 2; Matt. xxiii. 39. When bad shepherds cut off, Zech. xiii. 2. During this time, sheep scattered, Zech. xiii. 7; Matt. xxvi. 31, 56. Sheep, Israel, Ezek. xxiv. 12, 13. Believers, John x. 4, 16. Kept by the Father's hand, Zech. xiii. 7; John xvii. 11. Tried, purified, converted, Zech. xiii. 9; Matt. xxiv. 9-13. Until the day of the Lord, Zech. xiv. 1; Matt. xxiv. 13, 29. At the Lord's second advent He will come to defend Jerusalem, Zech. xii. 8, xiv. 3; Isa, lxvi. 6. At that time in a state of siege, Zech. xii. 2, xiv. 2. Governors trusting to the Jews' God for strength, Zech. xii. 5. Believing in His favour toward inhabitants, Zech. xii. 5. Disorder in army of besiegers, Zech. xii. 2-4. Help wrought miraculously, Zech. xii. 2-4. Inhabitants defended, Zech. xii. 8, ix. 14, 15, xiv. 3. Tyranny exercised by governors, Zech. xii. 6; Isa. lxvi. 5. Jerusalem taken and spoiled, Zech. xiv. 2; Rev. xi. 2. Antichrist reigning there, Rev. xi. 7, 8, 2 Thess. ii. 4, 8. Into captivity, or the wilderness, Zech. xiv. 2; Ezek. Where they are tried and afflicted, Zech. xiii. 9; Ezek. xx. 36, 37. The rest remain in the city, Zech. xiv. 2. Where they are persecuted, Zech. xii. 6; Isa. lxvi. 5. Abomination of desolation set up there, Dan. ix. 27, xii. 11; Matt. xxiv. 15; 2 Thess. ii. 4. Antichrist worshipped there, 2 Thess. ii. 4; Dan. xi. 38. Half inhabitants in city, Zech. xiv. 2. Part looking for Messiah's coming, Persecuted therefore, Isa. lxvi. 5. Part making profession by temple worship, Isa. lxvi. 3. Cut off, Zech. xiii. 8; Isa. lxvi. 4, 5. Half inhabitants in wilderness, Zech. xiv. 2; Ezek. xx. 35. Messiah's coming, Zech. xiv. 3, 5, ix. 9; Isa. lxvi. 5, 6. With His saints, Zech. xiv. 5; Jude 14; Rev. xix. 11-14. Repentance and conversion of Israel at sight of Him, Zech. xii. 10–14 ; Isa. lxvi. 8. Destruction of enemies of Israel, Zech. xiv. 3, xii. 3, 4, 9. Partly by divisions and fighting against each other, Zech. xiv. 13. And of Antichrist, Rev. xvii. 14; 2 Thess. ii. 8. The Lord Messiah king over all the earth, Zech. xiv. 9; Psa. lxxii, 11. Universally worshipped, Zech. xiv. 9, 16; Isa. lxvi. 23. With exceptions, Zech. xiv. 17; Isa. lxv. 20. Punishment of those who refuse, Zech. xiv. 17, 18; Isa. lxv. 20. Water of life issuing from Jerusalem, Zech. xiv. 8. Literal water, Zech. xiv. 8; Joel iii. 18; Ezek. xlvii. 8–12. Rising under the throne of the Lamb, Ezek. xlvii. 1; Rev. [A spring has lately been discovered rising under the Producing monthly fruits on the tree of life, Ezek. xlvii. 12; Jerusalem exalted, Zech. xiv. 10; Isa. ii. 2; Mic. iv. 1. Rebuilt and inhabited, Zech. xiv. 10, 11; Jer. xxxi. 38. Lasting for ever, Psa. cxxxii. 13, 14; Jer. xxxi. 40. Wealth of nations brought into it, Zech. xiv. 14; Hez. ii. 7, 8; Feast of tabernacles kept, Zech. xiv. 16. All in Jerusalem, Holiness to the Lord, Zech. xiv. 20, 21. PSA. XLVIII. 2. Let it be translated "The joy of the whole land is Mount Zion; (The joy) of the sides of the North is the city of the great King." It is what Jerusalem was, and is yet more fully to be-the joy of earth, far and near, the source of joy to the world at large, and not merely to Palestine. "Sides of the North," must mean something of this general sort; for in the prophets the North is continually spoken of as the contrast to Palestine, the seat of Palestine's foes. Thus, Jer. i. 13, (vi. 22, "sides of the earth," is parallel), xxv. 9, 26. Kings of the North, xlvi. 10; Ezek. xxvi. 7, “a King of Kings from the North," xxxix. 2. Even in Job's early days, the North was the far off region, chap. xxvii. 9, 22. Now, in Isaiah xiv. 13, the infidel king boasts that he will make his throne, first, "on the hill of the congregation” (2), and then, 66 on the sides of the North" (72), near and far, the land of Israel and the ends of earth. Hengstenberg, indeed, objects that we thus are forced to understand a resumption of the status constr., which (he says) is not allowable. But we at once adduce, as parallel instances of the same construction, Isaiah xiv. 19, "Thou art cast out "Like an abominable branch, (Like) the garment of them that are slain, (The garment) of them that are pierced by the sword, (The garment) of them that go down to the stores of the pit." Or this other, Proverbs xv. 26: "The thoughts of the wicked are abomination to the Lord, HOSEA XIV. 2.-Israel's words. The force of the "words" put by God himself into Israel's mouth is somewhat obscured in our version. The Hebrew warrants the following rendering of two of the clauses in ver. 2 :— "THOROUGHLY take away iniquity." but it stands thus, "." The the noun, and is used here adverbially. "And fetch good," is the next clause, in the Hebrew. It is not "Take away, iv-bs,” belongs to the verb, not to -np?. P. There is no "us DAN. VIII. 14. "Then shall the sanctuary be cleansed." The Hebrew here is not properly cleansed, but "justified," PTS; and though the Septuagint and Vulgate, with all translators, render it cleansed, yet the word manifestly denotes something more, and refers to its complete restoration to its original purpose as a dwelling of righteousness, just as the sinner's "justification " is more than "cleansing." The three expressions used in 1 Cor. vi. 11, may be noticed here, "ye are washed" (cleansed, as was the temple of its filth); "ye are sanctified" (set apart anew for God, as the temple was consecrated); ye are justified" (restored to the standing of entire righteousness before God). The apostle's words require this ceremonial illustration, as they have been often mistaken and confused. Reviews. The City of the Great King; or, Jerusalem as it Was, as it Is, and as it is To Be. By J. T. BARCLAY, M.D., Missionary to Jerusalem. Philadelphia: James Challen and Sons. 1858. FEW books-perhaps we might say none-contain such a mass of important information as to the topography of Jerusalem. We differ on several points from the author, but we do not on that account undervalue his work. It is not, however, at present with the view of discussing Jerusalem localities that we take up the volume, but in order to give an extract shewing the author's views as to the Millennial City : "Mène, mene, tekel, upharsin, was the terrific verdict denounced alike against the empire of the Chaldees, its haughty monarch, and its mighty capital, the beauty of the Chaldees' excellency;' and upon many a splendid city of antiquity has 'Ichabod' been written: but of Jerusalem, Jehovah says, 'I have graven thee upon the palms of my hands: thy walls are continually before me: I will make thee an eternal excellency.' We accordingly find that however often doomed to utter destruction by her merciless spoilers and subverters, phoenix-like, she has always risen from her ashes in due time. For the same Almighty Being that not only suffered these chastisements to be inflicted upon the Holy City, but declares, in judgment for her sins, I will make Jerusalem heaps and a den of dragons--Zion shall be ploughed like a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the House like the high places of the forest,' also declares, in fulfilment of His inscrutable decrees, 'Because they call thee an outcast-saying, This is Zion, whom no man seeketh after, behold, I will bring again the captivity of Jacob's tents, and have mercy on his dwelling-places, and the city shall be builded upon her own heap, and the palace shall remain after the manner thereofit shall not be plucked up nor thrown down for ever.' "It is strongly intimated in this comprehensive promise, that the city would not only be fully restored, but be built up according to her ancient landmarks. And that such a re-edification was literally accomplished under those great reformers and restorers, Ezra, Zerubbabel, and Nehemiah, we have abundant evidence in the memoirs of the admirable Tirshatha and the zealous Scribe. But the same Divine Being who so graciously promised its restoration, is pledged also for its enlargement beyond its ancient boundaries. And to any one at all acquainted with the history of Jerusalem and the topography of the city and its environs, the truth of this declaration will abundantly appear from the following explanatory paraphrase of the prophetic text recorded Jer. xxxi. 38-40: 38. Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that the city shall be builded to the Lord from the Tower of Hannaneel to the gate of the corner. 39. And the measuring line shall yet go forth over against it, upon the Hill Gareb, and shall compass about to Goath. 38. Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, after the expiration of the seventy years' captivity, that the city shall be built to the Lord, not only on its most impregnable foundations (in the southern quarter), but also the less defensible wall on the north-from the Tower of Hannaneel even to the gate of the corner-that portion of it most completely in ruins-from the most eastern point even to the westernmost-whence southward the fortifications are strong-so as to occupy all the site heretofore enclosed. 39. And not only so, but the measuring line shall go forth yet further over against it (the former northern boundary), upon the Hill Gareb, and shall compass about on that ringe and the rising ground that separates the Kedron Valley from the land around the north-east part of the city, commencing at the north-west corner of Zion and encircling a large district, |