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upon EZEKIEL. 445
called the Great Sea here, and ver. 15, 19. and Chapter
Chapt. xlviii. 28. and more diftinftly defcribed in XLVII.
JoJljua, by the Great Sea weflward, JrJIo. xxiii. 4. v>^YXJ
Perhaps Chrift may allude to this Place, when he
tells his Difciples, he will make them Fifhcrs of Men,
Matth.iv. 19.
V. 1 r. But the wiry-placer Jhall not be healed, they Ver. 1 r.
jhall be given to Salt.'] By thofe unlbund, rotten
Places may be underftood Hypocrites ; who fhall
receive no Benefit by thefe healing Waters, no
more than fome fort of Marfhland can be made
fruitful : Bnt after all the Care or Culture that can
be bellowed upon it, continues barren and unprofitable,
which the Hebrew Language expreffeth by
being ghten to Salt : Saltnefs is equivalent to Bar-
rennefs in that Language : See Pfal. cvii. 34. Dent.
xxix. 23. Jerem. xvii. 6. fo we read Judg. ix. 45.
when doimelech deftroyed Siebem, he [owed the
Ground whereon it ftood with Salt, to denote
that it mould never be cultivated or inhabited
again.
V. 12. And by the River upon the Bank thereof, Ver. 12,
Jhall grow all Trees for Meat."] See the Note on
ver. 7.
Ibid. Whofe Leaf Jlmll not fade, neither Jhall the
Fruit thereof be confumed?\ They mall be perpetual-
ly in a thriving Condition, like the Trees of Paradife,
never barren or withering : A proper Em-
blem of the Flourifhing State of the Righteous
(till bringing forth Fruit unto Holinefs, and whofe
End is everlafting Life : See Pfal. i. 3. ^ferem. xvii. 8.
Ibid. H Jhall bring forth new Fruit according to its
"Months.] It
once a Year,
mall be conftantly fruitful, not only
as Fruit-trees commonly are, Com p.
Rev, xxii. 2.
Ibid.