[201]. Vid. Mede de Resurrec. prim. Lib. III. Page 710, 749, 750.
[202]. Vid. Aug. de civ. Dei, Lib. xx. cap. 7.
[203]. See Ezek. xxxvii. 21. and Jer. xxxvii. 7-13. & alibi passim.
[204]. So Irenæus styles it, Adv. Hær. Lib. V. cap. 29. Diluvium superveniet Ignis.
[205]. Vid. Aug. de Civ. Dei. Lib. XX. cap. 7.
[206]. This is very agreeable to the scripture-mode of speaking; nothing is more common than for the cardinal number to be put for the ordinal; and so the meaning is, that this reign shall continue to the thousandth year, or till the last 1000 years of the world shall have an end, what part soever of his 1000 years it began in. Thus God tells Abraham, in Gen. xv. 13. that his seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs, to wit, Egypt, and shall serve them, and they shall afflict them 400 years; whereas it is certain that his seed were not above 215 years in Egypt, and they were not slaves, or afflicted there 100 years; therefore the meaning is, q. d. that they shall afflict them till 400 years are expired, from this time.
[207]. See Napier on the Revelation, prop. 33, 34. page 61, 62.
[208]. Εαυτον εκενωσε.
[209]. When we consider Christ as Mediator, from all eternity, we include, in this idea, his human nature, as what was to be assumed in time. There is a prolepsis in such a mode of speaking; as, when he is said to be the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world; in the same sense he might be said to be man from the foundation of the world; and so we understand it, when we speak of him as God-man Mediator, from all eternity.
[210]. By Christ’s mediatorial acts, we mean every thing that he did and suffered, in the whole course of his obedience, unto death. This is not to be considered in a proleptic sense, as what he did as Mediator, before his incarnation, may be said to be, as he might then, in some respects, be said to execute his prophetical or kingly offices, as Mediator, or as one who designed in the fulness of time, to take our nature into union with his divine Person.