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Chapter any more, nor let it be faid among the Heathen
XXXIX. that I was not able to refcue my People out of
i/V\) the Hand of their Enemies.
Ver. 8. Ver. 8. 'Behold it is come, and it is done,
faith the Lord God.,] The time appointed for
this Great Deftruclion is come, and it is the laft
and finifhing Stroke of God's Juftice upon the
Enemies of his Church and Truth. Compare
Revel, xvi. 17. xxi. 6.
Ibid. This is the T)ay whereof I have fpoken."]
'By my Servants theTrophets, Chap, xxxviii. 17.
Ver. 9. Ver. 9. oAnd they that dwell in the Cities of
Ifrael fiall go forth, andjhallfet on Fire and burn
the Weapons, 8cc3 In token of an entire Conqueft,
and that fuch a lafting Peace fhould enfue,
that there fhould be no more need of war-
like Preparations. Compare Tfal. xlvi. 9.
Ibid. Seven Years.] The burning the Weapons
of War muft be the Confequent of a complete
Victory : So that the [even Tears here mentioned
cannot be meant, as fome would under-
ftand them, of thofe terrible Conflicts which the
Jews had with oAntiochus Epiphanes, from the
143d or 145 th Year of the Mra Seleucidarum,
(according to the different Computation of the
Beginning of that Perfecution. See 1 Maceah
i. 20, 29.) to the 151ft Year of the fame Mra,
when Nicanor was {lain :
ibid. c. vji. 1, 4$. Nor
is that true which this Opinion fuppofes, viz.
that Nicanor r
s Death put an End to the Troubles
of the Jews : for after that there was great
oAffliclion in Ifrael, the like whereof had not
been fince the time that a Trophet had not been
feen among them> as the fame Writer informs us,
1 Maccah