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xxxv- 10 » " And the ransomed of the tort' siiiiU returns V H& dm * not say , the fatiteamed of EHns , mr the ransomed 0 f the Messiah , but tfce ransomed of the Lord * 99 Here it is elear that the ransomed of the Mes-r
siah and the ransomed of Jehovah are taken as synonymous . Midrasch Mischle , cxix . 21 , fol . 57 , cq \* 1 , Rabbi Huna said : The Messiah is called by eight names , which are , Jin * non , Jehovah , Our Righteousness ,
Zemachy Menachetn , David , Schiloh and Elias . These are then severally proved by passages of Scripture which I shall elsewhere produce . But as th £ words Jehovah , Our Righteousness * are here enumerated as two names ,
though really but one , perhaps the modern Jews have expunged Qne , ( viz . one of R . Huna ' s eight names , ) which might be rendered plain by the comparison of copies . Again , Book II . p . 200 , on Jerem .
xxiii . 6 , the place referred to at the beginning of the last extract , we meet with the following remarks : v . 6 , " And this is his name , whereby they shall call him , Jehovah our righteous * ness . " Echa Rabbathi , fol . 59 , col . 2 , on Lamentations i . 16 : fVhat is the name of the King Messiah ? R . Abba ben Cahana said : Jehovah is his name , q . d . " This is his name . " Midrasch Mischle , fol . 57 , col . 1 , R . Huna said , &c , the same passage quoted above . See above at Isaiah lx . 6 , ( where
there is a reference to this passage of Jeremiah taken from Breschith Rabba ) . Midrasch Tehillim on Ps . xxi . I , God calls the king Messiah by his own name * But what is his name ? Answer . Eoaod . wv * 3 , Jehovah is a man of war . But this is said concerning the king Messiah . Bava Bathra , fol . 75 , col . 2 : There are three things which come in the name of the Holy and blessed God ,
namely , the Just , the Messiah and Jerusalem . The Scripture thus speaks concerning the Messiah . " This is his nameP" R * Joseph Albo in Sepher Ikkarim * as cited by Eisenmenger 1 . p . 2 ) 6 . Tfi $ Scripture calls the , napf ^ qf the Messiah Jehovah oim mf h $£ t fa is
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causem Afe ti ^<^ Jps $ iee %£$$ will be Jirm and established * &tong % ? us , which will never depart . ¦ ' _ : These tw 6 passages contemn the whole of what Sclioettgenius hap produced to prove thiit the : Jewrat 0 Sr pected their Messiah under the name
Jehovah . The real question is whether they expected hiiu aa Deity or possessed of a divine nature . TM authority of the rabbinical writers in general , as interpreters of Scripture ,, is less than nothing , as they were completely devoted to the allegorical
method , and have applied to the Messiah innumerable pas ^ tag ^ vvhiqh have manifestly no relation to htm ; besides that many of them have written the most extravagant nonsense , of which Schoettgenius ^ extracts afford abundant specimens . The
simple question is , what they thought of the nature of their expected Messiah , and we must recollect in applying to him certain high epithets , ( not as expressing his nature but his offices aud works , ) they might have been influenced by rivalship of the Christians .
Now on the first testimony from Sohar on Deuteronomy , it is obvious to remark that the temple , as well as the name of the Messiah , is said to be expressed by the name Jehovah . The meaning , therefore could not be to ascribe a divine nature to the
Messiah any more than to the temple . We are next referred to Sohar ® pi Exodus , for an explanation of the words Exod . 3 Ciii . 21 , And the t ^ td went before them by flajT , in a pillar of cloud , and by night in a pillar of fire , " of the matron and the angei of the covenant , names , says our author , of the Messiah ; but it is the express testimony , of the » book Sohar on Gen , fol . 68 , col . 268 , that wherever the expression ange £ of thjb covenant occurs , the discourse is concerning the
$ m reference | o the Weasings qf hia reign , they did , agL exqiu ^ vely or e vea fre ( iuei ^ tlv lateud him pf the $ & * of the word Shftciuaah . What the Ml m ^ ^ r ^ m w w . . i _ ^ M V . *<• . . . « M
holy and blessed God . As to the matron , it is made out to be a name of the Messiah , chiefly by its bei ^ g shewn to be synonymous with Skechi ~ nah : but o ^ r a ^ hor ' a own extracts prove , tbat though tte , J ^ W 9 u | ight ; call their IVIesaiaHt ^ Sh ^ chinah ,
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Mf . Hincks on Jewish Title * of the Messiah . $ 47
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1823, page 647, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1790/page/31/
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