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39 8 A Commentary
Chapter Vcr. 5. So the Spirit took me up. 2 See Chap. iii.
XLIil. 12, 14. viii. 3. xxxvii. 1. xl. 2.
V/Y\) Ibid. And he brought me into the inner Court. ~\
Vcr. 5. Carried from the Gate that enters into it, into the
middle of it, juft before the Temple.
Ibid. And behold the Glory of the LORT>
filled the Houfe.] That Glory, or Symbol of the
Divine Prefence, which I faw coming from the
Eaft, ver. 13. entered into the Temple, and fet-
tled there; as it did when it was rlnifh'd by So-
lomon, 1 Kings viii. 10, 11.
Ver. 6. Ver. 6. And I heard him /peaking to me out
of the Houfe. With a great and mighty Voice,
ver. 2.
Ibid. And the Man flood by me.'] See Chap,
xl. 3.
Ver. 7. Ver. 7. The Tlaceofmy Throne, and the Tlace
of the Soles of the Feet.] The Senfe would be
plainer, if the Beginning of the Verfe were thus
rendered, This is the Tlace of my Throne, &c.
The Cherubims were God's Throne, from whence
he is faid to dwell or fit between the Cherubims y
and the Ark was his Footftool. See Tfalm xcix.
Ibid. Where I will dwell in the midft of the
Children oflfraelfor ever.] He means the Promife
formerly made with Relation to the Tabernacle
and Temple. See jP/aim lxviii. 16. exxxii. 14.
which is to be underflood, as thofe were under
the Condition of their Obedience, fee ver. 9. and
to be eminently fulfilled in Chrifi, in whom all
the Promifes of the Old Teftament are to have
their final Accomplifhment. Zachary prophefles
of the Mejfias, Chap. vi. 13. that he mould build
the