The application of redemption

They were pierced in their hearts.

The persons have been considered in those respects which were material and suitable to the aim of the Text: We are now come to enquire of the Work it self, that is termed here piercing. 2. The place or subject in which this was, it was in their hearts. Pierced] The word in the Original is a compound, and implies more than bare pricking; nor have we any English word fit to express it. A shivering and pulling all asunder; ¹for it is so to prick as to pierce and enter, dig on every side, to pierce not overly, but quite through the soul, as some of the Ancients render it. It's found only in this place in the new Testament, though the Seventy, Interpreters used it often in the Old, in the […] of several words in several places, according to the intendment thereof. But that is remarkable, that the Hebrew Root which they sometimes expressed by the word in this place, it signifies such a kind of piercing as when the body of a travelling woman is wounded with the sorrow of Child-birth, when the Child is severed from the Womb, and brought into the world. And it usually implies as here, a work of sound sorrow laid upon the soul, whereby sin and the soul come to be parted each from other. And this resemblance and similitude between this Spiritual Sorrow and piercing; stands in three Particulars.

The persons have been considered in those respects which were material and suitable to the aim of the Text: We are now come to enquire of the Work it self, that is termed here piercing. 2. The place or subject in which this was, it was in their hearts. Pierced] The word in the Original is a compound, and implies more than bare pricking; nor have we any English word fit to express it. A shivering and pulling all asunder; ¹for it is so to prick as to pierce and enter, dig on every side, to pierce not overly, but quite through the soul, as some of the Antients render it. It's found only in this place in the new Testament, though the Seventy, Interpreters used it often in the Old, in the of several words in several places, according to the intendment thereof. But that is remarkable, that the Hebrew Root which they somtimes expressed by the word in this place, it signifies such a kind of piercing as when the body of a travelling woman is wounded with the sorrow of Child-birth, when the Child is severed from the Womb, and brought into the world. And it usually implies as here, a work of sound sorrow laid upon the soul, whereby sin and the soul come to be parted each from other. And this resemblance and similitude between this Spiritual Sorrow and piercing; stands in three Particulars.