![]() ![]() Here the prophet, in the name of the church and people of God, declares what he would do in such circumstances, since there was no dependence on men of any rank, in any relation or connection with each other he resolved to look alone to the Lord, and put his trust in him look up to the Lord in prayer, use an humble freedom with him, place a holy confidence in him, expect all good things from him, and wait for them look to Christ in the exercise of faith, which is, in New Testament language, a looking to Jesus and the Targum interprets this clause of the Word of the Lord, the essential Word, who is to be looked unto, and believed in, as the Son of God, who is the true God, and eternal life as the Lamb of God, that takes away the sin of the world as the Mediator between God and men: as in all his offices of Prophet, Priest, and King as the Lord our righteousness, and as the only Saviour and Redeemer of men and that for all things when in darkness, for light when weak, for strength when sick, for healing when hungry, for food when disconsolate, for comfort in short, for all supplies of grace here, and for eternal glory and happiness hereafter and though he is in heaven, and not to be seen with our bodily eyes, yet he is held forth in the word of the Gospel, and the ordinances of it and is to be seen there with an eye of faith: I will wait for the God of my salvation ![]()
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