2 (Which he had promised afore by his prophets in the holy scriptures,)
Ver. 2. Promised] Foreshowed and foreshadowed in the types of the ceremonial law (which was their gospel, it was Christ in figure), and in the writings of the prophets; only by degrees and piecemeal, πολυμερως. God spake of old to our fathers, by his servants the prophets, Hebrews 1:1. All was in riddles to what it is now; and that saying took place, Et latet, et lucet. It is close, and yet clear.