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le: — The modern Jews will by no means have this text to be understood of the Messias. The ancient Jews did so understand it. The Messias is He whom all nations had reason to desire, because of those great blessings and benefits which He was to bring to the world. Show how the several parts of this prediction agree to our blessed Saviour, and to no other.

I. THERE SHOULD BE GREAT CHANGES AND COMMOTIONS IN THE WORLD BEFORE HIS COMING. This was fulfilled in a most remarkable manner between the time of this prophecy and the coming of our blessed Saviour. In those four hundred years happened greater commotions, and much more considerable revolutions, than in above two thousand years before, and in almost two thousand since.

II. THE WORLD SHOULD BE IN A GENERAL EXPECTATION OF MESSIAS AT THE TIME OF HIS COMING. The Jews were in general expectation. Their tradition was, that Messias would appear at the end of the second two thousand years. Some Jewish doctors determined that the Messias would come within fifty years of their time. And Suctonius and Tacitus voice the heathen expectation.

III. HE WHO IS FORETOLD, WAS TO COME DURING THE CONTINUANCE OF THE SECOND TEMPLE. Not long after Christ's death this second temple was destroyed to the ground. Then it could have been no other than Jesus who "filled this second temple with glory."

IV. THE COMING OF MESSIAS WAS TO BE THE LAST DISPENSATION OF GOD FOR THE SALVATION OF MEN. "Once more" implies "once more only." The inference may be thus expressed, "See that ye refuse not Him that speaketh." What could God have done more for us than He hath done?

(J. Tillotson, D. D.)

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KJV: For thus saith the LORD of hosts; Yet once, it is a little while, and I will shake the heavens, and the earth, and the sea, and the dry land;

WEB: For this is what Yahweh of Armies says: 'Yet once, it is a little while, and I will shake the heavens, the earth, the sea, and the dry land;