Section 705
II. The manner in which this was effected, or what his soul made him to his church and people, may he here also observed
It made him "like the chariots of Amminadib." 1. Like these chariots he moved swiftly to her: Christ is a "present help" to his people in their time of need; he helps them, "and that right early;" he makes haste, and delays not to afford them his assistance; for which reason he is said to be as "a roe or a young hart, leaping upon the mountains, and skipping upon the hills," in chapter 2:8, 9. 2. He is like chariots to support, bear up and carry his people; he takes them up in his chariots of salvation, and carries them through all the troubles and difficulties of this life, safe to glory, as he himself declares he will, in Isaiah 46:3, 4. 3. He is as chariots to them, to protect and defend them from their enemies: That which chariots and horses are to others, that is Christ to them, and much more so; whilst 'some trust in chariots, and others in horses, they trust in the name of the Lord their God; who comes with his chariots like a whirlwind, to render his anger with fury, and his rebuke with flames of fire," (Isaiah 66:15). 4. It may denote the majesty and glory in which he visited her; which, as it was an instance of his condescension, so it was putting an honor upon her; that one so great as he, who is the King of kings, and Lord of lords, should visit one so poor and mean as she.