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§. For out of thee shall come a Governor.
The Chaldee readeth it in the Prophet, Out of thee shall come Messias; and so is it ex∣pounded by Rabbi Solomon, and David Kimchi. And therefore that is most true which is inferred by Lyranus, that those Catholicks that interpret it of Ezekiah, do more judaize then the Jews themselves. Some Jews indeed, saith Theophylact, do apply this to Zoroba∣bel, but as he answereth, it is like that Zorobabel was born in Babel, and not in Bethlehem: And St. Matthew hath plainly taught both Jews and Gentiles to understand it in another sense. But here again doth he differ from the Letter of the Prophet, but cometh so near the sense, that the difference is as no difference at all.
Vers. 7. Herod privily called the Wisemen.
[Privily.] For had the Jews heard of his pretences [they had so long been acquainted with his policy, tyranny, and ambition] they could readily have descried his mischievous∣ness, and spoiled his bloody contrival, by better information given to the wisemen.