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Looking unto Jesus a view of the everlasting gospel, or, the souls eying of…
Looking unto Jesus a view of the everlasting gospel, or, the souls eying of Jesus as carrying on the great work of mans salvation from first to last / by Isaac Ambrose ...
London: printed for Richard Chiswel, 1680
Book 5 › Chapter 1 › Section 6: Of Christ's Whipping the Buyers and Sellers out of the Temple.
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SECT. VI. Of Christ's Whipping the Buyers and Sellers out of the Temple.
5. Concerning Christ's whipping the Buyers and Sellers out of the Temple: we read in the Gospel, That the Jews Passover being at hand, Jesus went up to Jerusalem: Thither,1 if we follow him, the first place that we find him in, is the Temple; where, by the occasion of the National Assembly, was an opportune Scene for Christ's transactions of his Fathers business. In that Temple Christ first espies a Mart; there were divers Merchants, and Exchangers of Money, that brought Beasts thither to be sold for sacrifice against that great Solemnity; at the sight of which, Jesus being moved with Zeal and Indignation, he makes a Whip of Cords, and according to the custom of the Zealots of the Nation, he takes upon him the Office of a private inflictor of punishment, he drives them all out of the Temple, he overthrows the accounting Tables, and commands them that sold the Doves, to take them from thence; and being required to give ⟨p. 183⟩a sign of this fact; he only foretells the Resurrection of his Body, after three days death, expressing it in the Metaphor of the Temple, which was never rightly understood till it was accomplished.
5. COncerning Christ's whipping the Buyers and Sellers out of the Temple: we read in the Gospel, That the Jews Passover being at hand, Jesus went up to Jerusalem: Thither,1 if we follow him, the first place that we find him in, is the Temple; where, by the occasion of the National Assembly, was an opportune Scene for Christ's transactions of his Fathers business. In that Temple Christ first espies a Mart; there were divers Merchants, and Exchangers of Money, that brought Beasts thither to be sold for sacrifice against that great Solemnity; at the sight of which, Jesus being moved with Zeal and Indignation, he makes a Whip of Cords, and according to the custom of the Zealots of the Nation, he takes upon him the Office of a private inflictor of punishment, he drives them all out of the Temple, he overthrows the accounting Tables, and commands them that sold the Doves, to take them from thence; and being required to give