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Uic course of all the prophecies. The Lord appears to them ; the Sun of Rigbteouane&s ariiieft u|iuii llicin with healing of all their wounds in bis wings, and they go forth>and they grow uplikecalvesof thestall; and, being grown strong and mighty, they tread down the wicked, thrash them out with the feetaa the ox doth the giiitn> and they shall be ashes under the soles of their feet. Now this vial makes prepara- tion for destroying itU the kings of the West and of the whole world : it was a very proper accom- paniment to present unto us the Jews, under the tigure of kings, who in the time to come were to ejtcrcisc the kingdom of the whole earth. And thuft the promise held out at the beginning of this book is fulfilk-d to thetn. And it is signi6ed that he bath appeared to them in glory ; and that they hare come to his risiog* And by their being installed kings they come up to defeat the anti- chriatiao combination of hifi enemies, and enter into the long promised kingdom <>fMt^sMiuluheir Prince* This will the mora clearly appear if we con> sider the whole emblem together, and the his* \L] i}H THK Vk.S THIBtt. 1105 toricul fact id the limes of old, wliich was ordained icT iho type of it, and In the language of which ii V vritten. Tbi3» 1 have no doubt, is the taking of Babylon by Cyrus; concerning which wc have so many prophecies lu tbv Old Tc&tamcnt. Baby- tun was imUiiied of old to be the city of the liord's caplivvs^ and Huplimtt-s lo be Iht* riy^r by which rhey should Bit and t^i-cp- Thither were they led captive iu the time of NebuchudnezzaTj and after being brought through many triaU. and having ^en many deliverances, it was ordained by God that they should be delirered by the hand of Cyrus, who, being mightily blrcngthened of the Lord, came up at the time appointed, and laid ^ige to Babylon, but could not prevail ajirAinat it because of the incredible height and ihickiiesj of the walU and n:>aHdive solidity of its brazen gates. Through the midst of the city ran the river Eu- pttrates, in breadth a full quarter of a mile, and in dupth equal to ihe height of two men. Tlie place being full of all manner of stonrs was deemed im- pregnable; and wag truly %o, but for that which the Lord had prophesied, saying (Isaiah xliv, 27), " That »aith t^ the ticcp. He dry, and I will dry up thy rivers ;'' and again (Jer. li.36;, " I will take vengeance for them, and I will dry up her sea, and make her springs dry " Directed, no doubt, by the Divine Spmx which had thu« foretold even the manner