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Truly this was the Son of God.
THAT is, This was indeed the Messias: Howsoever the Jews deny the Son of God in that sense, in which we own it, that is, as the second person in the holy Trini∣ty; yet they acknowledged the Messiah for the Son of God, (not indeed by nature, but by adoption and deputation; see Mat. XXVI. 63.) from those places, I Chron. XVII. 13.
Psal. II. 12. & LXXXIX. 26, 27. and such like. The Centurion had learnt this from the people, by conversing among them; and seeing the Miracles which accompanied the death of Christ, acknowledged him to be the Messias, of whom he had heard so many and great things spoken by the Jews. In Luke we have these words spoken by him, z 1.1 Certainly this was a righteous man. Which I suppose were not the same with these words before us; but that both they and these were spoken by him, Certainly this was a righteous man: Truly this was the Messias, the Son of God. Such are those words of Nathaniel, Joh. I. 49. Thou art the Son of God, thou art the King of Israel. Peter when he declared that Christ was the Son of the living God, Mat. XVI. 16. spoke this in a more sublime sense than the Jews ei∣ther owned or knew; as we have said at that place.
Chap. XXIII. 47.