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Paulus * New Version of Zech . ix—x . U 139
Z ^ ech . ix . 3 . Though Tyre hath built herself a strong hold j I Heaped up silver like dust , And fir ^ e gold like the mire of the streets ; 4 . Yet the Lord will take possession of her J He will cause her power to be smitten , and driven into the sea ; He , will cause her to be consumed in the flames , 5 . Ashkalon shall behold this with dismay : So shall Gaza—and fall as into labour-pangs : Ekron too : for Jehovah hath dried up the sources of her prosperity . Gaza shall not again have a king : - Ashkalon—an inhabitant .
be included in the Theocratical territory , of which Jehovah is ruler bliyto define , tQ draw a lint . Deut . xix . 14 . Jos . xviii . 20 . T \^ Lfw it , to ii to the country of the tribes of Israel . JH >!^ 1 % , understand nil ^ Han- 1 &O rVO ^ n > 3 . For Israel i becom e very , wise — so wise , that even the crafty Tyrians and Sidonians find it to be for their interest to unite themselves to her .
V . 3 . * TJ ^ D , a play upon n 12 ^; compare Isaiah xix . 6 . V . 4 . Alexander reduced Tyre , which would otherwise have been impregnable , by means of the mole , which he constructed with such expedition , between the continent and the island . Curt . iv . 2 , The mole still remaining , the Phoenicians might be attacked by land by a power inferior to them in naval strength , might be defeated ( ron ) and
compelled to betake themselves to the sea with all possible rapidity ; as many had before fled to the Carthaginian colonies , when the city was attacked by Alexander . This was CD'H HDn , to smite and drive into the sea . CDOj si $ f yv Q otXa&trocv * Alex , tfalotfei , Big 6 oc \ a ( rcrav t \ Svvapiv a , v 1 y ) $ . ( Or must roTT relate to storms ? For the Maccabees fought no naval battles ) .
V . 5 . The prophet , in thought , goes further down the Mediterranean , following the order of the places exactly . The meaning is ; the Philistines will not dare to withdraw from the jurisdiction of Jehovah . These Philistine towns had been conquered by the Jews and garrisoned by them * before the time of Hyrcanus I . namely by his father Simon . 1 . Maccabees xiii . 14 . xiv . 34 . xv . 33 , 35 . xvi . 1 O . But they were always disposed to revolt , and therefore were frequently invaded , &c . by the Jews . ntjN understand JOTO iOn- " FttD
b'tmifshall in the same manner : vis not redundant here . # > mn , from t £ ; : r to make dry . DDD , " th ^ same as D ^ O fro m 20 33 , ( Arab . ) DH 3 , to spring up , spoken of water , to grow up , of vegetables ; the general idea is that of coming up , shewing one ' s sel f . DIllD has the force of Hiphel , that which makes to sprit ? g or grow up , i . e . that which promotes , the prosperity of a city . So Is . xx . 5 . 6 \ D 3 O is parallel with niKDf ) . The word to ( fry up , W > 2 ri > shows that to ^ D is not here to
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1806, page 199, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1723/page/31/
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