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7 8 A Commentary
Chapter the Shadow of his Wings. The Phrafe alluding to
XL- the Wings, of the Lf)erul\m.s covering the Mercy
L/"VNs? Seat, arid fi^nirying God's Prcfence among them,
and Protection over his People. Therefore to comfort
tbole who Avere under a State of Exile and
Captivity, God tells them that altho' they were deprived
of the Benefit of attending upon his Sanctu-
ary, and being placed under that Protection his
Pretence there did import, yet he would fupply
that by being a conftant Refuge and Defence to
them in the Countries where they were fcattered.
Compare Tfal. xxxi. 20. xci. 1. Jfa. viii. 14.
Ver. 17. Ver. 17. / will even gather them from theTeo-
fle.~] This may be in fome. degree fulfilled in thofe
that returned- from Captivity, but the utmoft Completion
of this and the following Verfes, muft be
expelled at the general Reftoration of the Jewifb
Nation. See the following Notes, and Compare
Chap. xx. 4. xxviii. 25. xxxiv. 1 }. xxxvi. 24.
Ver. 18. Ver. 18. They Jball .take away all the deteftable
things thereof^] They fhall live pure from all the
Pollutions o( Idolatry, wherewith the Land had
been formerly defiled. See Chap, xxxvii. 25.
Ver. 19. Ver.* 9. oAna I will give them one Heart.]
They fhall ferve me with one Confent, %fph. iii.
9. and not be diitra&ed by the feveral Idolatrous
Worfhips which were fet up in oppofition to God's
true Worfhip, when the Ten Tribes feparated them-
felves from Judah. Compare Jeremiah xxxii. 39.
Hof. x. 2. Tfal. lxxxvi. 11.
Ibid. J will put a new Spirit within them."]
Thefe Promifes chiefly relate to the general Converfion
of the Jews : When God fhall pour out upon
them the Sfirit of Grace, in order to their Con-
verfion,