An expository comment, doctrinal, controversial, and practical upon the whole first chapter to the…An expository comment, doctrinal, controversal, and practical upon the whole first chapter to the…

The second Description is from his Appellative Name, Christ, which is as ¹much as anointed, or the Messiah. The word is used sometimes generally to all the people of God, Hab. 3. 13. The whole body of Israel is there called Gods anointed; and to this sense Grotius brings that place, Heb. 11. where Moses is said to account the reproaches of Christ better than the treasures of Egypt. ⟨p. 27⟩By anointed, he understands the people of Israel. But that is not so probable. It's more specially attributed to those that are chief amongst the people of God, Psal. 105. 15. where God is said to rebuke Kings for his peoples sake, saying, Touch not my anointed, nor do my Prophets no harm; that is, Abraham, Isaac, and others, who were in eminency of esteem with God: He doth not mean Kings there, but his eminent servants. Hence it is also that amongst the Jews, their chief Officers, Kings, Priests, and sometimes Prophets were anointed. Now Christ because he did excel all these, being the true Trismegist, the King, Priest and Prophet; Therefore he was called the Messiah, or anointed one, [Greek or Hebrew] in a transcendent manner. Hence from Daniel, Chap. 9. 24. The anointing of the most holy; he was called the Messiah, as if none deserved the name but he.

The second Description is from his Appellative Name, Christ, which is as ¹much as anointed, or the Messias. The word is used sometimes generally to all the people of God, Hab. 3. 13. The whole body of Israel is there called Gods anointed; and to this sense Grotius brings that place, Heb. 11. where Moses is said to account the reproaches of Christ better than the treasures of Aegypt. ⟨p. 27⟩