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| How Different the Acts in the Kingdom of the Earthly Jerusalem are from Those Which God Had Promised, So that the Truth of the Promise Should Be Understood to Pertain to the Glory of the Other King and Kingdom.
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Chapter 10.—How Different the
Acts in the Kingdom of the Earthly Jerusalem are from Those Which
God Had Promised, So that the Truth of the Promise Should Be
Understood to Pertain to the Glory of the Other King and
Kingdom.
That it might not be supposed that
a promise so strongly expressed and confirmed was fulfilled in
Solomon, as if he hoped for, yet did not find it, he says, “But
Thou hast cast off, and hast brought to nothing, O Lord.”1056
This
truly was done concerning the kingdom of Solomon among his
posterity, even to the overthrow of the earthly Jerusalem itself,
which was the seat of the kingdom, and especially the destruction
of the very temple which had been built by Solomon. But lest on
this account God should be thought to have done contrary to His
promise, immediately he adds, “Thou hast delayed Thy Christ.”1057
Therefore he is not Solomon, nor yet David himself, if the Christ
of the Lord is delayed. For while all the kings are called His
christs, who were consecrated with that mystical chrism, not only
from king David downwards, but even from that Saul who first was
anointed king of that same people, David himself indeed calling him
the Lord’s christ, yet there was one true Christ, whose figure
they bore by the prophetic unction, who, according to the opinion
of men, who thought he was to be understood as come in David or in
Solomon, was long delayed, but who, according as God had disposed,
was to come in His own time. The following part of this psalm
goes on to say what in the meantime, while He was delayed, was to
become of the kingdom of the earthly Jerusalem, where it was hoped
He would certainly reign: “Thou hast overthrown the covenant of
Thy servant; Thou hast profaned in the earth his sanctuary. Thou
hast broken down all his walls; Thou hast put his strong-holds in
fear. All that pass by the way spoil him; he is made a reproach
to his neighbors. Thou hast set up the right hand of his enemies;
Thou hast made all his enemies to rejoice. Thou hast turned aside
the help of his sword, and hast not helped him in war. Thou hast
destroyed him from cleansing; Thou hast dashed down his seat to the
ground. Thou hast shortened the days of his seat; Thou hast
poured confusion over him.”1058
All these things came upon
Jerusalem the bond woman, in which some also reigned who were
children of the free woman, holding that kingdom in temporary
stewardship, but holding the kingdom of the heavenly Jerusalem,
whose children they were, in true faith, and hoping in the true
Christ. But how these things came upon that kingdom, the history
of its affairs points out if it is read.E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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