Ezekiel 17:22

Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will also take of the highest branch of the high cedar, and will set [it]; I will crop off from the top of his young twigs a tender one, and will plant [it] upon an high mountain and eminent:

Ver. 22. I will also take of the highest branch of the high cedar.] a Understand this great and precious promise of Zerubbabel and his successors, but especially of Christ and his kingdom. How oft in the prophets is he styled the "branch." Isa 11:1 And how ordinary is it with God, after dreadful threats against the wicked, to come in with his attamen nevertheless for the comfort of his elect, who in their deepest distress have cause enough to encourage themselves in the Lord Christ their God, as did David at the sack of Ziklag. 1Sa 30:6 Here they are excited, in the loss of all else, to fetch comfort from Christ's descent from David, his exaltation to the kingdom of the Church universal, his bounty and benefits, his bringing in the fulness of the Gentiles, and his setting forth of his Father's glory.

A tender one.] Tenellum. Christ, of weak and low beginning.

And will plant it.] Upon Zion, Psa 2:6 spiritual especially. Upon Calvary, saith Theodoret, expounding the Septuagint, who render the text thus, I will hang it upon the high mountain of Israel.

a Insignis est haec prophetia. - Lavat.