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An exposition of the prophecy of seventy weeks, which God sent to Daniel by the angel Gabriel Dan. IX. 24-----27.
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Lloyd, William, 1627-1717.
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the supernatural Assistance of the Spirit of God it seems he had lost the Sence of that for the present which made him cry out in the first Words of the two and twentieth Psalm My God my God! why hast thou forsaken me But as he shewed the firmness of his Faith in calling God by that Title So it appears he did not forget himself to be the Messias of God for whom David made that Psalm in the Spirit of Prophecy And God appear'd to Answer his Prayer by a visible Token in dispelling that Darkness which had now continued three Hours as was before mentioned It was at the Ninth hour that the Darkness went off Matt. XXVII 45. Mar. XV. 33. That was the hour of Prayer in the Temple Act. III. 1. the Time of the Evening Sacrifice After which imediately followed the killing of the Paschal Lambs And that held from the Ninth hour to the Eleventh as Iosephus tells us de bell Iud. VII 17. At the Beginning of this part of the Day namely at the Ninth hour Iesus cried with a loud voice saying Eloi Eloi lamma Sabachthani My God my God c. Mar. XV. 34. The Words that he spoke were in the Syriac tongue which was our Saviour's natural Language And as Bp. Walton saith they were the Words of the Ierusalem Targum of that Psalm But some of them that stood by when they heard it said behold he calleth for Elias Mar. XV. 35. Grotius thinks they were Hellenists such as understood not that Language and therefore mistook the Word Eloi for Elias After this Iesus knowing that all things were now accomplished that belong'd to his State of Humiliation his Death onely excepted to the end that the Scriptures might be fulfill'd he said I thirst Ioh. XIX 28. Thereupon one run and fill'd a Spunge full of Vinegar whereof there stood a Vessel full probably for the Soldiers use And putting this Spunge on a Reed or Stalk of Hyssop which seems to have been a Shrub or small sort of Tree in that Countrey l. King IV. 33. with this they put it to our Saviours Mouth Matt. XXVII 48. Mar. XV. 36. Ioh. XIX 29. Others that were in the same mistake being pleased with this for the asswaging of his Thirst that he might not die presently said 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Go on so Grotius renders it Go on keep him alive that we may see whether Elias will come to take him down Matt. XXVII 49. Our blessed Lord did receive the Vinegar Ioh. XIX 30. and so fulfilled the latter Part of that Prophecy Psal. LXIX 21. In my thirst they gave me Vinegar to drink which was the last Prophecy to be fulfilled before his Death Our blessed Lord had no sooner Received this but he said 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Ioh. XIX 30. Which Word may be render'd it is fulfilled And so by what he said vers 28. St. Iohn seems to have understood it of the fulfilling of the Prophecy It is render'd in our Translation it is Finished and so the same word is used by St. Paul II. Tim. IV. 7. Our blessed Lord had now Finished his great Work that he had undertaken He had pay'd the last drop of his Blood for our Redemption and had nothing more to do but to resign his Soul to God To shew how willingly he did this he cryed with a loud Voice saying Father into thy hands I commend my Spirit Luke XXIII 46. They are the Psalmist's words Psalm XXXI 5. to which our blessed Lord added onely the Title of Father which he alone could use in his own proper Right And so in perfect Obedience to his Father he did as it was foretold of him pour out his Soul unto Death Esai LIII 12. He Bowed his Head and gave up the Ghost Ioh. XIX 30. St Iohn tells us in his next Words vers 31. that it was now the Preparation of the Sabbath He further tells us that that Sabbath-day was a High-day So the Iews called the first and last days of their great Feasts Ioh. VII 37. This was therefore the first of the seven days of Unleaven'd Bread which falling upon a Sabbath-day was a High-day more than Ordinary But for this Preparation of the Sabbath the Apostle is carefull to distinguish it from the Preparation of the Passeover mentioned before vers 14. That of the Passeover as he there told us was about the Sixt hour which as it was shewn before in page Lxvj. held from Six till Nine in the morning But this Preparation of the Sabbath was not till three of the Clock in the Afternoon So it is expressly said in Augustus his †Jos. Antiq. XVI 10. p. 561. E. Edict for the exempting of the Iews from giving Bail in Suits of Law that it should not be required of them on their Sabbath-dayes nor on their Preparations or Sabbath-day Eves from the Ninth hour that is from three of the Clock in the Afternoon It was some three hours before our Saviours death that as St. Luke tells us XXIII 44 45. The Sun was darkned and the Vail of the Temple was rent in the midst plainly shewing that the Eclipse as Phlegon calls it and the Earthquake came both together as they have been placed before in this Discourse But it seems very likely that there was another Shock of the Earth-quake at the time when our blessed Saviour expired For St. Matthew not only places the Earthquake immediately after our Saviours death but also saies Thereupon the Centurion and they that were with him watching Iesus when they saw the Earthquake feared greatly But that which struck them most was their seeing 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Matt. XXVII 54 Luk. XXIII 47. what happened in the Manner of our Saviour's death Mar. XV. 39. viz. that he So Cryed Out and then immediately gave up the Ghost St. Luke saies The Centurion seeing these things happen together Glorified God Owned that this was certainly his Work and that He must be a Righteous Man for whom God was so much concerned nay he must be what he owned himself to be The Son of God As that Word was what made Pilate afraid Iohn XIX 8. so it did now the Soldiers that had thus ill treated so great a Favorite of God But not only They but all the People that were come together to that sight when they beheld 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the things that had happened smote their breasts and returned Luke XXIII 48. no doubt with sad hearts thinking what heavy Judgements of God this Great Sin was like to bring upon their Nation But soon after they that had been the Authors of this being still Zealous for the Externals of their Religion were concern'd that the dead Bodies should not be suffered to hang upon the Cross on the Sabbath day Especially that being a High day as was before mentioned They therefore besought Pilate that the Bodies might be taken away Ioh. XIX 31. But to shew that they meant the Condemnd Men no Favor