Matthew Poole and continuators on Ezekiel 47:9

9 And it shall come to pass, that every thing that liveth , which moveth , whithersoever the rivers shall come, shall live : and there shall be a very great multitude of fish, because these waters shall come thither: for they shall be healed , and every thing shall live whither the river cometh.

As fish, so this universal is to be limited.

In the waters▪ so Gen. 1.20. this kind of living Creatures are described.

These Rivers (by this it appears, the Hebrew Doctors have some ground for their interpreting the running of these waters in two Channels) flow.

Be preserved alive, or nourished, and thrive, whereas no fish can live in the dead Sea, as all reports assure us, and to which this of the Prophet alludeth.

Before none, now innumerable fish there.

These Temple waters, which have in them a healing vertue.

The poisonous waters of the dead Sea shall be made wholesome for fish.

Thrive, and multiply in the vertue of the healing streams of this Temple water. Thus Aenigmatically is the fruitfulness of the Grace of God in the Church set forth.

Marginal references: Heb. [illegible: 1 word] vers.