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hem/' Now. remark what follows, upon this iheir returu fromthcirhoufteofbondagc, Vcr-13: "WbcnlhaTc bent Judab for mc, filled the bow with Ephraim. and raised up thy sons, O Zion, against thy sons, O Oreece, and made thee as the sword of a mighty man." When I have bent Juciali, out of whicli is to come the battle-bow, and filled the bow with Ephraim ; a happy figure, to denote their combi- nation in the warfare of the Lord. — that they shall make, as it were, but one weapon bctwe<^ them, and be in the Lord s Iianil av one iniLtrument of war. This is after the redemption of tlie captires of Judah, which, we have argued at length, is to be by the means of EphraJm, then Epliraim acknow- ledging the supreme place of Judah shall he at hUcnmmand, to be launched from him an the zi* row is launched frofo the bow. It is remarkable, that this emblem of the arrow, or polished shafts is used to denote the might and deadly wrath of Christ in that terribleday of the Lord, Isaiah xVix, 2; "In the shadow of his hand hath he hid me, and marie me a polished shaft : in bis quiver hath 1176 THE KIHOS OF TUt £A6T, [Z3Jtf1 be bid mc/' Apd tlic arrow u continually ttscdi to denote tlie nG«^t[>fsh ami certainty of the lord's direful vt;ugi;aiicc ; u$ in tliAt P^lm wiib wiiich we began our worship tbi& day^ (sxl) "Tbcre-. fore shalt rhou (the King) make theoi turn their back, when Ihou shall make ready thine arrows upon liiy *lj»g* »gi!iii^t tbe face of ihcni.' From which we cor elude, that even after the utuou o£i the tribeftf and tlieir Dece&*iary co-operaUDU^ Epb- rsim, which filletb the bow, shall be the great strength of the Lord's battle, and iottrument of his destructivencss as^in^t all those that are his foc&. — " And raised up thy sons, O iiioti, agaiost thy fionii, O Greece." This occurring Ai\<^ ibc return of the captives, k*udit me to belit^e (hat it it parallel with that prophecy concerning Gog' and Mago;?, M'hich is^ wriiieu in the xxwiiith and xxxixth chapters of EzckicI ; when the rahoua nations of the We^t and North, which lay towards Greece, and were mostly derircd from the &tock ofJavaii, the father of the Greeks, are represenled aftcoiniiifr up af^aintit the people of Is^rael, dwell- iv^ ^1 peace in their own land* which is therefore called the land of unwalled villager. Of whoacde- l^itiuction, ihc Lord doth prophecy io the proudest ' Strain, saying, " I will Anute the Ikjw out of thy left hnm), ami will cause tlnne arrows to fall out of ihy right hand. Thou shah fall upon the moun- tain