In particular, the spirit of government, by which he should be every way fitted for that judgment which the Father has committed to him and given him authority to execute ( Jn. 4:18), The Spirit of the Lord is upon me.Ģ. The Holy Spirit, in all his gifts and graces, shall not only come, but rest and abide upon him he shall have the Spirit not by measure, but without measure, the fulness of the Godhead dwelling in him, Col. In general, the Spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him.

That he should be every way qualified for that great work to which he was designed, that this tender branch should be so watered with the dews of heaven as to become a strong rod for a sceptre to rule, v. The Chaldee paraphrase reads this, There shall come forth a King from the sons of Jesse, and the Messiah (or Christ) shall be anointed out of his sons' sons. The Messiah was thus to begin his estate of humiliation, for submitting to which he should be highly exalted, and would thus give early notice that his kingdom was not of this world. The house of David was reduced and brought very low at the time of Christ's birth, witness the obscurity and poverty of Joseph and Mary. 4:15), yet it shall sprout again ( Job 14:7) nay, it shall grow out of his roots, which are quite buried in the earth, and, like the roots of flowers in the winter, have no stem appearing above ground. When the royal family, that had been as a cedar, was cut down, and only the stump of it left, almost levelled with the ground and lost in the grass of the field ( Dan. (3.) He comes forth out of the stem, or stump, of Jesse. 18:18), and it was in a way of contempt and reproach that David was sometimes called the son of Jesse, 1 Sa. (2.) He is said to come out of Jesse rather than David, because Jesse lived and died in meanness and obscurity his family was of small account ( 1 Sa. 53:2) yet he shall be victorious over them. 10:33), which will not, without great labour, be hewn down, but Christ to a tender branch ( ch. The enemies of God's church were just before compared to strong and stately boughs ( ch. (1.) He is called a rod, and a branch both the words here used signify a weak, small, tender product, a twig and a sprig (so some render them), such as is easily broken off. David is often called the son of Jesse, and Christ is called so, because he was to be not only the Son of David, but David himself, Hos. He should be the son of David, with whom the covenant of royalty was made, and to whom it was promised with an oath that of the fruit of his loins God would raise of Christ, Acts 2:30. Whence this branch should arise-from Jesse. 2:23, where it is said to be spoken by the prophets of the Messiah that he should be called a Nazarene. 4:2) should be excellent and glorious the word is Netzer, which some think is referred to in Mt. That the Messiah should, in due time, arise out of the house of David, as that branch of the Lord which he had said ( ch.

10:27) that the yoke should be destroyed because of the anointing now here he tells us on whom that anointing should rest. The prophet had before, in this sermon, spoken of a child that should be born, a son that should be given, on whose shoulders the government should be, intending this for the comfort of the people of God in times of trouble, as dying Jacob, many ages before, had intended the prospect of Shiloh for the comfort of his seed in their affliction in Egypt. 11-16) and of all this God would now shortly give them a type, and some dark representation, in the excellent government of Hezekiah, the great peace which the nation should enjoy under him, after the ruin of Sennacherib's design, and the return of many of the ten tribes out of their dispersion to their brethren of the land of Judah, when they enjoyed that great tranquility. 10), and with them the remnant of the Jews, that should be united with them in the Messiah's kingdom ( v. The justice and equity of his government ( v. His qualifications for his great undertaking ( v. Upon occasion of the prophecy of the deliverance of Jerusalem from Sennacherib, here comes in a prophecy concerning Messiah the Prince. For what else was it that raised so great an expectation of the Messiah at the time he came. It is a very good transition in prophecy (whether it be so in rhetoric or no), and a very common one, to pass from the prediction of the temporal deliverances of the church to that of the great salvation, which in the fulness of time should be wrought out by Jesus Christ, of which the other were types and figures, to which all the prophets bore witness and so the ancient Jews understood them.

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