And I will also take of them for priests and for Levites, saith the Lord.” Whereby it is manifest, that the chief seat of God’s kingdom, which is the place from whence the salvation of us that were Gentiles shall proceed, shall be Jerusalem: and the same is also confirmed by our Saviour in His discourse with the woman of Samaria, concerning the place of God’s worship; to whom He saith (John 4:22), that the Samaritans worshipped they knew not what, but the Jews worshipped what they knew, “for salvation is of the Jews” (

ex Judaeis , that is, begins at the Jews): as if He should say, you worship God, but know not by whom He will save you, as we do, that know it shall be by one of the tribe of Judah; a Jew, not a Samaritan. And therefore also the woman not impertinently answered Him again, “We know the Messias shall come.” So that which our Saviour saith, “Salvation is from the Jews,” is the same that Paul says ( Rom.