Matthew Poole and continuators on Zechariah 13:1

1 IN that day there shall be a fountain opened to the house of David, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem for sin, and for uncleanness .

When the Lamb of God shall be offered up a Sacrifice for mankind, and the Gospel shall be preached in which the glad Tydings of our Redemption are publisht.

By water, and Ceremonial washings was legal pollution in many cases purged away, and much of the legal Service stood in divers washings, but all these were Shadows and Types, here is that they typified. The matchless healing, and purging Fountain, i. e. The Blood of Christ here is the true Siloam which never fail'd to heal any that rightly used it, 'tis Christ.

The Spouse is to Christ a Fountain sealed, but Christ is to sinners a Fountain opened; under the Law he was as the waters of the Temple, for the Iew; but now he is opened to us Gentiles, free to all, and of easie access, and of Soveraign vertue to heal.

He was every where nearest to them, and though his own Kindred did some of them slight him, and not believe in him, yet some others did, and it may intimate to us the first tender of Grace made to his own, to whom he came, though they received him not; or the Royal Family some of them will be benefitted by it, and all of them need it; no outward priviledge can secure us against poyson of sin, Grace alone, this Fountain only can purge it away in great, and noble; or mean, and base.

To all the Iews before the Gentiles, To you first saith the Apostle, God hath sent his Son, but in that 'tis opened, 'tis to us Gentiles also. Ierusalem as Image of the whole Church, takes in the Gentiles, so Inhabitants of Ierusalem are all to whom the Gospel is preached, all penit[illegible: 1 letter]nts.

Marginal references: [illegible: 1 paragraph]; For purging away of all manner of sins and uncleannesses of which men repent, and from which they depart, according to that Prov. 20.9. 1 Ioh. 1.9.