Looking unto Jesus a view of the everlasting gospel, or, the souls eying of…

1. Some observe that this Sentence is separated from the former with a Period or great stop: however God goes on to speak of the Seed of the Woman, yet he says not, and that Seed shall bruise thy head, for so we might have thought he had spoken of that Seed collectively as he did before; but stopping there, and not repeating the same word again, he gives it thus; it or he shall bruise thy head; (i.) some individual person of that same Seed, some singular one of that same common Seed of the Woman shall bruise thy head; as David alone of all the Host of Israel goes forth to fight with Goliath, and overcomes him; so Christ alone of all the Seed of the Woman was so to fight with the Serpent by his own power as to overcome him, and to bruise his head.

1. Some observe that this Sentence is separated from the former with a Period or great stop: however God goes on to speak of the Seed of the Woman, yet he says not, and that Seed shall bruise thy head, for so we might have thought he had spoken of that Seed collectively as he did before; but stopping there, and not repeating the same word again, he gives it thus; it or he shall bruise thy head; (i.) some individual person of that same Seed, some singular one of that same common Seed of the Woman shall bruise thy head; as David alone of all the Host of Israel goes forth to fight with Goliah, and overcomes him; so Christ alone of all the Seed of the Woman was so to fight with the Serpent by his own power as to overcome him, and to bruise his head.

2. The Seventy in their Translations of this place (with which agrees the Chaldee Paraphrast) renders it [Greek or Hebrew], he] which needs most denote some singular person, or Son of the woman; and the rather because the Seed spoken of before is rendered [Greek or Hebrew], to which if the relative had rightly agreed, it should have been [Greek or Hebrew], or [Greek or Hebrew], and not [Greek or Hebrew]; Hereto we may add, that to this it] or he] the Seed of the Serpent is not opposed as it was in the former sentence; but the Serpent it self, one singular Antagonist; here is singularis [Greek or Hebrew], a duel, or a combat of two, hand to hand, only Christ and the Serpent; he shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.