Matthew Poole and continuators on Matthew 13:17

17 For verily I say unto you, that many prophets, and righteous men have desired to see those things which you see, and have not seen them, and to hear those things which ye hear, and have not heard them.

Luke repeateth this passage, but not as annexed to this Parable, Ch. 10.23. Blessed a[illegible: 1 letter]e [illegible: 1 letter]our Eyes. The Eyes of your Bodies and of your Minds. With the Eyes of your Bodies, you have seen the promised Messias, come in the Flesh, and you have seen the Works, which I have done, confirming me to be the Messiah: and with the Eyes of your minds, you have understood, and believed. For many Prophets, many Righteous-men (Luke adds many Kings) have desired to see the things which you have seen, &c. From the very first giving out of the promise of Christ to Adam, upon the fall, Gen. 3.15. there was in Believers an Expectation of the Mess[illegible: 1 letter]ah, who being so great a good, so in[illegible: 1 letter]inite a Ble[illegible: 2 letters]ing to Man-kind, they could not but have a de[illegible: 2 letters]re (if God had so pleased) to have seen him. But we are told that A[illegible: 1 letter]ra[illegible: 1 letter]am saw Christ's Day and rejoyced. And Simeon and [illegible: 1 word] Expectation of him, mentioned Luk[illegible: 1 letter] 2. lets us know that ot[illegible: 1 letter]er P[illegible: 1 letter]ous Souls had such desires. O[illegible: 1 letter]r Saviour ble[illegible: 2 letters]eth his Disc[illegible: 1 letter]ples, that they had seen with the Eyes of their Bodies, what ot[illegible: 1 letter]ers had only seen a[illegible: 1 letter]ar o[illegible: 1 letter] by the Eyes o[illegible: 1 letter] their Minds, Heb. 11.13.

Marginal references: 1 Pet. 1.10.