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    the prosecution . of his theopr ^ tiziagjCDnquests , he would retain the inclination to return as a miFd and equitable prince , and that he wouM almost render the renewal of \ varfare impossible * V , 10 , The anonymous author of the oracle , who wished that Judaism

    might be further extended on every side , and consequently that his nation might , for the time to come , have no need of war in their own defence , might with reason hold up to him , with a view of obtaining , his > wishes , such a peaceful perspective as this i

    " See—thy king cometh , as a . judge and a deliverer—meekly rideth he upon a peaceful ass : horses , armour , shall thenceforward cease ! " &c . ( v . 9 , 1 O . ) The expression yfcnsv ^ delivered from . warfare , " very well suits a man who evidently carried on war reluctptntly . The words of vef . 3 . * I will set up

    a camp for my temple , * ' applies best to Hyrcanus I . Having fumisbed himself with a large treasure from the sepulchre of David , he set the example of securing the peace of his people , by nirjpg a standing army or foreign troops , who , being better disciplined than the tumultuary ]\ 4 : accabee zealots hitherto were ^ would be g teady in the day of battle : wqcoros ivSaicdv % Evbr % dq > ewD %% ocTo . Ant . xiii . 16 . 450 [ 5 S 3 . ] ( Saul soon found the Becess . jty of a standing military . force . 1 Sain . xiii . 1 , 2 . )

    Now if Jesus wished to preseht himself s ^ irhbolically to the iiation as their king , and > from the analogy which there was between himself and John Hyrcanus , fixed upon him for this purpose , he could not have found ; among the Jewish kings , I had almost said in the Jewish history , a model so suited to his design * For , 1 . a man , who at the beginning of his reign , iwas a , most successful vyarrior , and in a cause which his

    countrymen must esteem most sacred , yet preserved the blessings of peaee-to 4 betn for twenty-five successive years / at a time , too , when his Syrian and Egyptian neighbours could have made very little resistance to an ambitious Jew , impresses us with a high opinion of his magnanimity . 2 . Hyrcanus was the , decided opponent of the Pharisees and their tenets ; and

    for this reason , too , Jesus could not but greatly esteem 'him . Like Jesus , he withstood , them as rnen who vopuj / . # TroKkoi L 0 L $ 0 % 7 )? f ' atfs g HK < XVOC . yEygactfT& , l £ 1 / rots IS / Lcogsojs vofjuoir [ xiii . 18 . 588 . ] Qn the other h ^ nd , he countenanced the Sadducees , not because they were Sadducces , but because they tau ght , Sew Jiyz&ai . ^ oy ^ i ^ x rp , ysypafjL / Azvpto . 5 e

    ex iroL 7 T < zga . 0 Q < recos ; r- ttxteqcov yw m ^ tiv , i \ e * preqis ^ ly that in ' which they were coincided with by Jesu » , who , i \ : om the sports of the evangelists , had far less frequent disputes witji them than \ Vith t \ c Pharisees . Further , 3 . Hyrcanus ruled so peacefully , dur ^ g liis r ^ igt ^ of thirty- One yCars ( le : aving out his fitat tonmiests ^) that Josephus is full of glowingdes 6 ttptr 6 its ' of " what

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    00 I aulus Commentary upon Zech . ix ^—j \ . l ;

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1807, page 90, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2377/page/34/