John Trapp on Zechariah 14:11
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Zechariah14:11
Verſ. 11. And men ſhall dwel in it.] Heb. They ſhall dwel in it, ſc. Multitudes of men. The new Jeruſalem, the Church gathered by the preaching of the Goſpel ſhall not be thinly inhabited, as the wilderneſſe of Judea was: it ſhall not lye waſte for want of people, as divers parts of Turkey do. It ſhall not need to call in the countrey,Neh. 11 as in Nehemiahs dayes, to repleniſh it: but it ſhal be ful thruſt as an hive is with bees, where they hang out on heaps through want of room within or as Jeruſalem was wont to be at the three ſolemn feaſts; or laſtly, as the Temple was at thoſe feaſts where the people were ſo crowded, that they were glad to ſtand and pray, for kneel or bow they could not. See Eſay 51.3. Jer. 31 38, 39, 40. Obad. 19.20. And there ſhall be no more utter deſtruction.] Heb. Cherem, which the vulgar Interpreter rendreth, Anathema; There ſhall be no more curſe, no execrable or accurſed thing; no caſting out by excommunication; no cauſe to do ſo. (See the ſame, Rev. 22.3. No Canaanite in the Lords houſe, as verſe 21. Then ſhall Jeruſalem be holy, and there ſhall no ſtranger paſs thorow her any more, Joel 3.17. ſuch ſhall be her ſanctity. Others expound it of her ſafety and ſecurity (as in the following words, Jeruſalem ſhall be ſafely inhabited. See the like, Jer. 23.6. & 33.16. In thoſe dayes ſhall ludah be ſaved, and Ieruſalem ſhal dwel ſafely: and this is the name wherewith ſhe ſhall be called, Iehovah tſidkenu, The Lord our righteouſneſs. A ſtately name indeed, and that which carries ſafety in the front of it. In Ezekiel the Church is called, I[illegible: 1 letter]hovah Shamma, The Lord is there: and the Pſalmiſt gives the notation, and this note upon it, God is in the midſt of her, ſhe ſhall not be moved: God ſhal help her, and that right early. [non-Latin text not transcribed]. Mat. 1.21 Pſal. 130.8 But the Lord our righteouſneſſe is a more Auguſt name. It is Chriſts own name: and imports that Chriſt will ſave his people from their ſinnes (which would lay them naked to the wrath of God, and rage of enemies) he will redeem Iſrael from all his iniquities, and then he need not fear what man can do unto him. It was ſaid of Achilles, that he was Styge armatus: But every childe of the Church is, Coelo, Chriſto, Deo armatus: he hath the peace of God within him, and the power of God without him; and therefore cannot but be ſafe as in a tower of braſs, or town of war. Pſ. 90.1.
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