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Matthew Poole and continuators on Micah 5:3

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Micah5:3

3 Therefore will he give them up , until the time that she that travelleth hath brought forth: then the remnant of his brethren shall return unto the children of Israel .

Or nevertheless as the particle will bear.

God the God of Israel.

To the Chaldeans to be wasted by them, and to be led into Captivity, and to be afflicted there for their sins committed in their own Land against God,

Until 70 years be expired, this the time appointed for the punishing the Jews.

The daughter of Zion compared here to a Woman in Travel.

i. e. The brethren of the Messiah, those of Judah and Benjamin who were carried Captive.

Being set free by Cyrus shall return to their own Land and be there established, and they shall return with Israel rather then to all this referring in the letter to their Redemption out of Babylon, (which was the effect of the Messiah's Power and Mercy towards them, as chap. 4. ver. 10. and chap. 5. ver. 2.) hath a farther reference to a more glorious Redemption, and to intervening afflictions which should fall upon the Iews from after their restitution, and resetling in Canaan, unto the coming of Messiah in the flesh, when born of the Virgin, and that of Isaiah 7.14. shall be fulfilled, when Messiah, Ben David shall set up his Kingdom, and deliver the whole Israel of God from their Captivity under Ignorance, Sin, and Hell, and shall bring in the Gentiles, that remnant of his Brethren, and unite them to the true Israel, and make them one Church to God.

Be delivered out of Captivity compared here to a Womans bringing forth, as chap. 4.9, 10.

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