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A paraphrase and annotations upon all the books of the New Testament briefly explaining all the difficult places thereof / by H. Hammond.
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Hammond, Henry, 1605-1660.
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by the use of the phrase all the words v. 3. viz. all the words which the Lord hath said 't is evident that the peoples part which is obedience and not only God's part in making good his promises to them was it that was sealed and so signified by their being sprinkled with blood by Moses and to it is immediately annexed All that the Lord hath said will we do and be obedient v. 7. And Moses took the blood and sprinkled it c. ver 8. And to this it is very agreeable that here it is in the same case joined with 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 obedience and the sprinkling of the blood of Jesus noting this of Evangelical obedience to be the condition required on our part in this new Covenant which Christ sealed with his blood in like manner as that Mosaical Covenant was there sealed with sprinkling of blood and to which he hath both enabled and obliged us by his death having given himself for us that he might redeem us from all iniquity and purifie to himself which is the effect of sprinkling a peculiar people c. Tit 2. 14. and so we read of this blood of sprinkling by which Christ's death is typified that it was the blood of the Covenant which the Lord commanded to you Heb. 9. 20. a rite to engage our obedience to God And this seems to be the most proper notation of the words and is fully parallel to that of Ephes 1. 4. where God is said to have chosen us in Christ that we should be holy c. Some other notions the phrase might be capable of either to signifie God's pardon and acceptance Heb. 9. 22. Rom. 3. 25. but that will not so well agree with the Passive acception of the word looking rather on God who is the Agent in it and the blood of Christ the meritorious cause of it whereas this being joined with obedience seems to be somewhat in us to which we are enabled and engaged by the blood of Christ or else to denote our imitating Christ's constancy and perseverance shedding our blood in his cause as he hath given us an example And thus indeed to be sprinkled by Christ's blood may be a phrase figuratively to signifie our transcribing this bloody copy of his but yet seems not to be any part of the intimation of the ceremony of sprinkling with blood in Exodus from which this rather seems to be transcribed CHAP. II. 1. WHerefore laying aside all malice and all guile and hypocrisies and envies and all evil speakings Paraphrase 1. Wherefore arming your selves against the erroneous doctrines and practices of the Gnostick hereticks that insinuate themselves among you to infuse villanie and all kinde of deceitfulnesse and hypocrisie as also of malice and calumniating of others the purest Christians 2. As new-born babes desire the note a sincere milk of the word that ye may grow thereby Paraphrase 2. Behave your selves with that simplicity which becometh new-born children suck in that pure nourishment which by your rulers is afforded you see Rom. 12. a viz. instruction or Christian doctrine and that pure from all Jewish or heretical mixtures which may increase your Christian stature advance you to an higher pitch of Christianity and at last bring you to salvation 3. If so be ye have tasted that the Lord is gracious Paraphrase 3. Which sure you will doe if you have but once as David saith of Gods Law Psal 34. 9. tasted how sweet how much for our advantage it is which is designed us in the Gospel of Christ 4. To whom coming as unto a living stone disallowed indeed of men but chosen of God and pretious Paraphrase 4. To whom associating or conjoining your selves by obedience and worship as to a living not dead foundation or corner-stone rejected indeed by the Jewish Sanhedrim but in Gods account most choise and esteemed and meant for the foundation of a visible Church 5. Ye also as lively stones are built up a spiritual house an holy priesthood to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God by Jesus Christ Paraphrase 5. Doe you accordingly◠not as dead but living members join together not only in inward piety but in continual assemblies or Church-meetings of which every Christian is to be a part and so all together make up a spiritual temple that is congregation to pray unto and praise God to perform to him those acts of the Christian sacrifice to which you are as it were consecrated and set apart by God and which being now offered to God in the name of Christ or through what he hath suffered and done for us will be sure to be acceptable to God without the bodily sacrifices of the Jewes or observation of their Law 6. Wherefore note b it is contained in the Scripture Behold I lay in Sion a chief corner-stone note c elect precious and he that believeth on him shall not be confounded Paraphrase 6. According to that which the Scripture tells us that in the erecting the new Church under the Gospel Jesus Christ and his doctrine in opposition to all other is appointed by God to be the foundation of the foundation so that all that is in the Church must be founded and built on him and whosoever doth sincerely believe and is truly built on him shall never fail of his expectation he shall never miscarry that lays his weight on that foundation see note on Rom. 9. m. 7. Unto you therefore which believe he is precious but unto them which be disobedient the stone which the builders disallowed the same is made the head of the corner Paraphrase 7. To you therefore that are believers this is matter of infinite advantage but for those that stand out in unbelief to them belongs the reproach of that prophecy that he that is refused by the Jewes is honoured by God and made the sole total foundation of his Church on which nothing must be built which he hath not taught no Judaical old or heretical new doctrine must be mingled with it 8. And a stone of stumbling and a rock of offence even to them which stumble at the word being disobedient whereunto also they were note d appointed Paraphrase 8. But this foundation-stone such an one as should be apt to hurt and mischief many who shall apostatize and fall off from the faith of Christ through fear of persecution and by that means be destroyed among the persecuters And this is no strange thing but the very same that is prophesied of and so appears to be part of Gods decree that they that obey not the Gospel of Christ should be destroied by him or that the seed sown in stony ground should at the scorching of the Sun wither away that all carnal professors should be thus tried and discovered by persecution and so that this corner-stone should be the bruising and ruining of many who stumble and fall from Christ because Christianity brings sufferings along with it
in this poor men they were sadly mistaken the prophecie of the Romans coming in to conquer them and destroy their Temple which I suppose was scatter'd among them and became the occasion of their mistake in expecting 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to destroy them being thus perfectly fulfilled on them not by their letting Christ alone or believing on him but by the contrary by this their resisting and bandying against and at last crucifying him see Note on Matt. 24. m. CHAP. XII 1. THen Jesus six days before the Passeover came to Bethany where Lazarus was which had been dead whom he raised from the dead 2. There they made him a supper and Martha served but Lazarus was one of them that sate at the table with him 3. Then Mary took a pound of ointment of spikenard very costly and anointed the feet of Jesus and wiped his feet with her hair and the house was filled with the odor of the ointment Paraphrase 3. Then Mary the sister of Lazarus not Mary Magdalen see Note on Luke 7. 6. took a pound of the richest nard a very costly ointment see Mar. 14. a. 4. Then saith one of his disciples Judas Iscarioth Simon 's son which should betray him Paraphrase 4. who was the person that soon after this agreed to deliver him into the hands and power of the Jews 5. Why was not this ointment sold for three hundred pence and given to the poor 6. This he said not that he cared for the poor but because he was a thief and had the bag and bare what was put therein Paraphrase 6. because he having the office of receiving all that was brought or presented to Christ and being a covetous person who purloined much to his own uses conceived himself to be a loser by what was thus bestow'd on Christ 7. Then said Jesus Let her alone against the day of my burying hath she kept this Paraphrase 7. she hath performed this as a fit ceremony to solemnize my approaching death after which men use to be embalmed with perfumes and spices c. 8. For the poor always ye have with you but me ye have not always Paraphrase 8. And therefore this was a very seasonable charity in her ye will have opportunities enough to shew your charity to the poor but this was the last opportunity she could have had of expressing it to me who am suddenly to be gone from you 9. Much people of the Jews therefore knew that he was there and they came not for Jesus sake only but that they might see Lazarus also whom he had raised from the dead 10. But the chief priests consulted that they might put Lazarus also to death Paraphrase 10. And seeing that Lazarus was apprehended by the Sanhedrim to be so dangerous a means to bring men to believe on Christ upon consultation it was thought fit to put Lazarus to death 11. Because that by reason of him many of the Jews went away and believed on Jesus Paraphrase 11. many Jews forsook the Judaical way of opposition against Christ upon seeing that miracle of his in raising Lazarus 12. On the next day much people that were come to the feast when they heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem 13. Took branches of palm trees and went forth to meet him and cried â—â—â—â—na blessed is the King of Israel that cometh in the name of the Lord. Paraphrase 13. Took palm branches see Note on Matt. 21. a. and solemnized his entrance into the city with the ceremonies of a Kings inauguration acknowledging him to be the Messias see Mat. 11. a. and using the words of Psal 118. 29. and styling him King of Israel 14. And Jesus when he had found a young ass sate thereon as it is written Paraphrase 14. At the same time also the disciples of Jesus fetching a young ass and bringing it to him according to his appointment he rode on it into Jerusalem And so that other prophecy of scripture Zech. 9. 9. was fulfilled in him also 15. Fear not daughter of Sion behold thy king cometh sitting on an asses Paraphrase 15. Now O Jerusalem there is matter of rejoycing to thee for he that is now thy King cometh in an equipage not of pomp and state but of humility as one that is likely to be author of all good to thee 16. These things understood not his disciples at the first but when Jesus was glorified then remembred they that these things were written of him and that they had done these things unto him Paraphrase 16. These things at first his disciples understood not to be a completion of any such prophecy till the coming of the holy Ghost upon them after Christs ascension then they considered and remembred that that was now done unto him which had been so long ago so plainly prophecied of him 17. The people therefore that was with him when he called Lazarus out of his grave and raised him from the dead bare record Paraphrase 17. At this time before the peoples Hosanna's those of the multitude that had been present at that mighty work of his in raising Lazarus from the dead freely made acknowledgement of it in Jerusalem 18. For this cause the people also met him for that they heard that he had done this miracle Paraphrase 18. And that caused the peoples coming out to him v. 13. as to the Messias whom alone they supposed able to do such a miracle ver 11. 19. The Pharisees therefore said among themselves Perceive ye how ye prevail nothing Behold the world is gon after him Paraphrase 19. Upon this the Pharisees said one to another We are so far from having suppressed him by all our opposition made against him that all men believe on him in despight of us And therefore some other sudden course must be taken with him 20. And there were certain note a Greeks among them that came up to worship at the feast Paraphrase 20. There were at this time some Gentile-worshippers Proselytes of the Gates which being not permitted to celebrate the feasts with the Jews were yet come up to pray in the outward court of the Temple 21. The same came therefore to Philip which was of Bethsaida in Galilee and desired him saying Sir we would see Jesus Paraphrase 21. These living not far from Bethsaida in Galilee and so having some knowledge of Philip who was of that city came to him and besought him that he would help them to see Jesus and speak with him 22. Philip cometh and telleth Andrew and again Andrew and Philip told Jesus Paraphrase 22. Philip first consulteth with Andrew and both together mention it to Jesus 23. And Jesus answered them saying The hour is come that the son of man should be glorified Paraphrase 23. Jesus did not refuse or reject these Gentiles from coming to him but in general words intimated that the preaching the Gospel to the Gentiles was now shortly at hand And in order to that Christ should be