CHAP. XXXIV. V. 16.-Seek ye out of the book of JEHovAH and read. No one of these shall fail, none shall want her mate, for my mouth it hath commanded, and his SPIRIT it hath gathered them. In the above quotation there is one Person speaking of the Spirit of another Person; so that the whole Trinity is here included. Whether God the Son, or God the Father, is to be understood as the speaker, it is neither easy nor material to determine. The above note is quoted from that excellent divine, the Rev. W. Jones of Nayland. CHAP. XXXVII. Hezekiah prayed unto JEHOVAH, saying, 15. O JEHOVAH of Hosts, GOD of Israel, that dwellest between the cherubims, thou art ELOHIM; thou hast made heaven and earth. Incline thine ear, O JEHovAH, and hear; open thine eye, O JEHOVAH, and see, and hear all the words of Sennacherib, which hath sent to reproach the living ELOHIм. Isaiah is called the Evangelical Prophet; and he not only prophesies most explicitly the events concerning CHRIST, but it is also to be remarked that JEHOVAH and ADONI JEHOVAH is almost exclusively addressed and stated as acting throughout the whole book, and yet, in unison with other inspired writers, how emphatically does Isaiah introduce the comprehensive term ELOHIM in this beautiful prayer of Hezekiah! CHAP. LIII. V. 4. Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows, yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of ELOHIM and afflicted. In the 5th chapter of the 2d Cor., v. 19, we read, "That God was in CHRIST reconciling the world to himself." How beautifully does this account for the term ELOHIM being used in the above extract! Had St. Paul written in Hebrew, ELOHIM is the term he would have adopted, for God in the New Testament is synonymous with it. JEREMIAH. CHAP. Χ. V. 6. There is none like unto thee, O JEHOVAH; thou art great, and thy name is great in might. 10. JEHOVAH is the true ELOHIM, he is the living ELOHIM, and an everlasting King. If due attention were paid to the quotations of the Apostles and Evangelists from the Old Testament, they would strongly confirm the doctrine of the divinity of CHRIST. It should here be noticed that the JEHOVAH ELOHIM is declared to be an everlasting King, which title is only assigned to JEHOVAH. The Apostles, &c., often declare that CHRIST was JEHOVAH; and Pilate affixed to his cross, "This is the King of the Jews." Ought not these coincidences to be duly and reverently reflected upon ? CHAP. XXIII. V. 5.-Behold the days come, saith JEHOVAH, that I will raise unto David a righteous branch, and a king shall reign and prosper, and shall execute judgment and justice in the earth. 6. In his days Judah shall be saved, and Israel shall dwell safely; and this is his name whereby he shall be called, JEHOVAH our Righteousness, (or rather our Justification, according to the Hebrew). How clearly does this again identify our Saviour and Redeemer with this JEHOVAH our Justifier! LAMENTATIONS. CHAP. II. V. 1.-How hath ADONI covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in his anger, and cast down from heaven unto the earth the beauty of Israel! 2. ADONI hath swallowed up all the habitations of Jacob, and hath not pitied. 5. ADONI was as an enemy, he hath swallowed up Israel. 6. He hath violently taken away her tabernacle, he hath destroyed his places of the assembly. JEHOVAH hath caused the solemn feasts and Sabbaths to be forgotten in Zion, and hath despised, in the indignation of his anger, the king and the priest. 7. ADONI hath cast off his altar, he hath abhorred his sanctuary, and given up into the hand of the enemy the walls of her palaces. They have made a noise in the house of JEHOVAH, as in the day of a solemn feast. 19. Arise, cry out in the night, pour out thine heart like water before the face of ADONI. Lift up thy hands to him for the life of thy young children, that faint for hunger. 20. Behold, O JEHOVAH, and consider to whom thou hast done this. Does not this awful prophecy resemble more a history of past events, rather than a denunciation of what was to be literally fulfilled some hundred years after it was uttered? It ought to be remarked that ADONI, as Judge, is represented as not pitying, and as dispersing the king and the priest. How exactly does this coincide with our blessed Saviour's lamentation over Jerusalem; and, moreover, how exactly is Jeremiah's prophecy fulfilled in the final destruction of that once wonderful kingdom! ΕΖΕΚΙΕEL. CHAP. XXVIII. In God's judgment against the prince of Tyrus, Ezekiel says, The word of JEHOVAH came again unto me, saying, 2. Son of man, say unto the prince of Tyrus, Thus saith ADONI JEHOVAH. Because thine heart is lifted up, and thou hast said, I am God; I sit in the seat of ELOHIM, in the midst of the seas; yet thou art a man, and not God, though thou set thine heart as the heart of ELOHIM. 9. Wilt thou yet say, I am ELOHIM? but thou shalt be a man, and no God, in the hand of him that slayeth thee. How severely is the prince of Tyrus threatened for presuming to lift up his heart and say, "I am GOD;" and yet our Saviour asserted his perfect equality with GOD; and we do not read that such assumption was condemned by the inspired writers. CHAP. XXXIV. V. 24. And I, JEHOVAH, will be their Elohim, and my servant David a prince among them. I JEHOVAH have spoken it. 30. Thus shall they know that I, JEHOVAH their God, am with them, and that they, even the house of Israel, are my people, saith ADONI GOD. 31. And ye, my flock, the flock of my pasture, are men, and I am your God, saith ADONI JEHOVAH. Here JEHOVAH declares he is ELOHIM, and that the people shall know that he is with them. I have often repeated this remark, because, if JEHOVAH were with the Jews at that time, why should he not dwell again with them when he came to establish his own most excellent religion? DANIEL. CHAP. IX. V. 3.-And I set my face unto ADONI ELOHIM, to seek by prayers and by supplications. 4. And I prayed unto JEHOVAH my God, and made my confession, and said-O ADONI, the great and dreadful GOD, keeping the covenant and mercy to them that love him, and to them that keep his commandments. 11. Yea, all Israel have transgressed thy law, even by departing, that they might not obey thy voice, therefore the curse is poured upon us, and the oath that is written in the law of Moses, the servant of ELOHIM, because we have sinned against him. Here ADONI is addressed as ELOHIM and JEHOVAH, and the Great and Terrible God. In similar passages in the Old and New Testament references, this ought always to be kept in view, for it will tend greatly to confirm the divinity of Christ. HOSEA. CHAP. IV. V. 1.-Hear the word of JEHOVAH, ye children of Israel, for JEHOVAH hath a controversy with the inhabitants of the land, because there is no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of ELOHIM in the land. JEHOVAH is here represented as angry, because there is no knowledge of ELOHIM in the land; and this was awfully verified when the Jews rejected CHRIST; for, had they known the Law and the Prophets, they would not have denied CHRIST. Hosea, it may be perceived, preserves the distinction of persons. CHAP. XIII. V. 4.-I am JEHOVAH thy God, from the land of Egypt; and thou shalt know no Elohim but me, for there is no Saviour besides me. Here is an express declaration of JEHOVAH himself, that our Saviour is no other than the ELOHIM himself. |