Psalm lxxi. 7.— I am as a wonder unto many; 10. For mine enemies speak against me; And they that lay wait for my soul take counsel together, 11.-Saying, God hath forsaken him: Persecute him and take him; for there is none to deliver him. 20.-Thou which hast shewed me great and sore troubles, shalt quicken me again; And shalt bring me up from the depths of the earth. Solomon.1 2 Samuel vii. 13.—And I will establish the throne of his kingdom for ever. Psalm 1xxii. 17. His name shall endure for ever: His name shall be continued as long as the sun : And men shall be blessed in Him: All nations shall call Him blessed. 2 Psalm lxxii. 1, 2. Give the King Thy judgments, O God, And Thy righteousness unto the King's Son. He shall judge Thy people with righteousness, And Thy poor with judgment. 14. He shall redeem their soul from deceit and violence: And precious shalt their blood be in His sight. (Abraham, Aaron, Samson, Zerubbabel were also typical representatives of Messiah.) Matthew xiii. 57.—And they were offended in Him. (See also John vi. 42; and vii. 15, 16.) John xi. 53. Then from that day forth they took counsel together for to put Him to death. 1 Corinthians xv. 20.-But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the first-fruits of them that slept. Luke i. 32, 33.-And the Lord God shall give unto Him the throne of His father David: and He shall reign over the house of Jacob for ever; and of His kingdom there shall be no end. John v. 30.-As I hear I judge: and My judgment is just; because I seek not Mine own will, but the will of the Father which hath sent Me. (See also John viii. 16.) Titus ii. 14.-Who gave Himself for us, that He might redeem us from all iniquity. 1 Solomon means peaceable. 2 See Note VI, on Psalm lxxii. Jacob's Ladder. Typical Ordinances and Events. Genesis xxviii. 12.-And he dreamed, and behold, a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven: and behold the angels of God ascending and descending on it. The Passover. Exodus xii. 3.-Speak ye unto all the congregation of Israel, saying, In the tenth day of this month they shall take to them every man a lamb, according to the house of their fathers, a lamb for an house. Exodus xii. 5.-Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year. 6.-And ye shall keep it up until the fourteenth day of the same month and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it in the evening.1 7.—And they shall take of the blood, and strike it on the two side posts, and on the upper door post of the house, wherein they shall eat it. 1 Hebrew, "Between the two evenings." -See note on Passover Type, shewing the literal accomplishment of this part of the ordinance by Him who came "to fulfil the law," dying at the exact time appointed for killing the Paschal Lamb. 2 "Heaven open" figuratively expresses the bestowal of Divine blessings, (Ps. lxxviii. 23, 24,) and our Lord here seems to mean that Nathaniel should eventually have evidence in His life and works, that He was the appointed Mediator by and through whom we have access to the Father, and obtain all our supplies of spiritual blessings. The only "Way," as figured by Jacob's ladder, from earth to heaven. John xiv. 6. John i. 51.—Verily, verily, I say unto you, Hereafter ye shall see heaven open, and the angels of God ascending and descending the Son of man. upon John i. 29.—Behold the Lamb of God which taketh away the sin of the world! Luke xxii. 15, 16.—With desire I have desired to eat this passover with you before I suffer: for I say unto you, I will not any more eat thereof until it be fulfilled in the kingdom of God. 3 1 Peter i. 18.—Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, .... 19.—But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot. Matthew xxvii. 46.—And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice .... 50.-Jesus when He had cried again with a loud voice, yielded up the ghost. Mark xiv. 24.—This is My blood of the new testament, which is shed for many. Hebrews xii. 24.—And to Jesus the Mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling. (See also Heb. ix. 22.) 3 That is, until the typical institution of the Passover should be fulfilled in the Sacrifice once offered of the true Paschal Lamb of God for the sins of the world. As this great event was accomplished the following or Passover evening, therefore our Lord kept it the day before that appointed for this feast, on which He as the true Paschal Lamb was to be offered up; and intimates in these few simple words to His disciples that He should shortly accomplish that great sacrifice foreshadowed by the Passover type. 8. And they shall eat the flesh in that night, roast with fire, and unleavened bread; 11. And thus shall ye eat it; with your loins girded, your shoes on your feet, and staff in your and ye shall eat it in haste it is the Lord's passover. hand; your 13.-And the blood shall be to you for a token upon the houses where ye are and when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and the plague shall not be upon you to destroy you, when I smite the land of Egypt. 46.-In one house shall it be eaten; thou shalt not carry forth aught of the flesh abroad out of the house; neither shall ye break a bone thereof. (See also Numbers ix. 12.) 47.-All the congregation of Israel shall keep it. (See also Numbers ix. 13.) 48.-And when a stranger shall sojourn with thee, and will keep the passover to the Lord, let all his males be circumcised, and then let him come near and keep it; and he shall be as one that is born in the land: 49.-One law shall be to him that is homeborn, and unto the stranger that sojourneth among you. (See also Numbers ix. 14.) The Brazen Serpent. Numbers xxi. 8, 9.-And the Lord said unto Moses, Make thee |