Matthew Poole and continuators on Daniel 9:27

27 And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week : and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease , and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate , even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate .

This (He) is not Titus making truce with the Iews which he did not, though indeavoured to perswade them that he might spare them. I say then with Graser, Mede, and others, that this (He) is the Messiah, and the Covenant he confirms is the New Testament or Covenant, called therefore the Covenant of the People, Isai. 42.6. and 49.8. and the Angel of the Covenant, Mal. 3.1. and the surety of the Covenant, Hebrews 7.22. and the ancient Rabbins called the Messias [non-Latin text not transcribed] a middle man, or middle man between two. Quest. How did Christ confirm the Covenant? Answ. By Testimony. 1. Of Angels, Luk. 2.10. Mat. 28.2. Iohn Baptist. 3. Of the Wisemen. 4. By the Saints then living, Luk. 1.2. 5. Moses and Elias, Matth. 17.3. 6. Pharisees as Nicodemus, Ioh. 3.2. 7. The Devils that confest him. 2. By his Preaching. 3. By Signs and Wonders. 4. By his Holy Life. 5. By his Resurrection and Ascension. 6. By his Death and Blood shed.

[non-Latin text not transcribed] He shall corroborate it, as if it began before his coming to fail and be invalid.

Noting hereby the paucity of the Jewish Church and Nation, compared with the great increase and inlargement by believing Gentiles throughout all Nations and Ages of the World, Isa. 11.9. and 49.6. and 53.11, 12. and 54.2, 3. Mark 16.15. Act. 13.46. q. d. With many Jews first and last, and with many more of the Nations, yea with the many whom the Rabbins and Pharisees despise as the rabble, the common people, Isa. 4[illegible: 1 letter].3. Matth. 21.31. Ioh. 7.48, 49. 1 Cor. 1.26, 27.

By a figure, take the greater part of the whole, he shall, though rejected by the chief and bulk of the Jewish Nation, yet make the New Testament prevail with many in that time, i. e. at the latter end of the 70 weeks.

Ze[illegible: 1 letter]ach and Min[illegible: 2 letters]a bloody and unbloody to cease, i. e. All the Jewish Rites, and Levitical Ceremonious Worship, i. e. by the burning of the Temple before the City was taken, for they were only to offer Sacrifice in the Temple, nor had they where withal in the Siege. Yet is there more in it then this, viz. That the Lord Jesus by his death, and by the execution of his wrath did abrogate▪ and put an end to this laborious service, and made it to cease for ever.

Desolate for the wing, for the manifold and great abominations stretching, and our Text hath it well overspreading. This abomination was the R[illegible: 1 letter]man Army with their Eagles, and with their superstitious Rites in [illegible: 1 letter]pproaching to besiege, and subdue any place, and this is executed by Christ upon them, Matth. 22.7. when he is called a King sending [illegible: 1 letter]orth his Armies, and destroying the Murderers that destroyed him, and burning their City, and their coming is Christs coming, Mal. 3.1, 2. Ioh. 21.22. Ia[illegible: 1 letter]. 5.7. therefore its said here, he shall make it desolate.

Here all this is made the effect of Gods Decree, and therefore irrevocable. This word Shomen notes that this people were bewitched, sottishly superstitious, wanderers, banished, the astonishment and scorn of the World, all which did justly, and dreadfully befall them, and they verifie it to this day. They that will curiously search further into the seventy weeks and other numbers in Daniel, and have leisure and skil let them read Grase[illegible: 1 letter]us, L'Empereur, Wasm[illegible: 1 letter]th, Mede, Willet, Wichmannus, Sanctius, Rainold[illegible: 1 letter]s Pererius, Derodon, Broughton, Live[illegible: 1 letter]eius, Helvicus, Calovius, G[illegible: 1 letter]ierus, &c. Lege Ioseph Med. pag. 861. &c. and Bail. p. 180. &c. This Scripture shews the coming of the Messiah, so clearly his sufferings, and the wrath of God so severely upon the Iews, for it, that it thorowly confutes their unbelief, and fully confirms our Faith in Jesus Christ.

Marginal references: Or, in one week.; Or, with the abominable armies.; Matth. 24.15. Mar. 13.14. Luk. 21.20.