"Thy Salvation". Genesis 49:18.
This Is Appendix 36 From The Companion Bible.
"I have waited for Thy salvation, O
Jehovah." These words are repeated three
times (and in three different ways) by every pious Jew, morning and
evening. In the note on Genesis 49:18 it is pointed out
that by the Figure of Speech Metonymy (of Effect), see Appendix 6,
"salvation" is put for Him Who brings it. The meaning is
beautifully put, thus, in the Jerusalem Targum :-
"Not to the salvation wrought by Gideon, the
son of Joash, does my soul look, for it is temporal. Not to the salvation
wrought by Samson, the son of Manoah, is my longing directed, for it is
transient: but to the salvation, the completion of which Thou hast
promised, by Thy everlasting Word, to bring to Thy people the descendants
of Israel." "To Thy salvation, O
Jehovah, to the salvation of Messiah the son of David, Who will one day
redeem Israel and bring her back from the dispersion, to that salvation my
soul looks forward; for Thy salvation is an everlasting salvation"
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