Ezekiel 21:27

And it shall be no more— Nor shall this be the same, until he come, &c. "After Zedekiah is deprived of his regal authority, there shall be no more kings of that a family till the coming of the Messiah; the king so often foretold and promised; who in due time shall sit upon the throne of his father David, and of whose kingdom there shall be no end." There is an age to come, as well as a person to come who should begin that age; who is therefore named in Scripture, The Father of the age to come. Sometimes a substantive is joined to this epithet, denoting his dignity. The Hebrew words here are לו אשׁר בא עד ad bo asher lo, &c. which Montanus renders, Until he come who was to come. In all places, however, where this text occurs, the Jews understood the Messiah by him that cometh, and therefore often spoke of the Messiah in our Saviour's days by this circumlocution. When John had a mind to satisfy his disciples, he sent them to Christ with this question, Art thou he that cometh? And it was part of Martha's creed, that Christ was He that was to come. See Bishop Chandler's Defence, p. 37.