If ye be willing and obedient
The Targum adds, "to my Word": the Word made flesh, and dwelling
among them; who would have gathered the inhabitants of Jerusalem
to his ministry, to attend his word and ordinances, but their
rulers would not: ye shall eat the good of the
land;
the land of Canaan; as the Jews held the possession of that land,
before the times of Christ, by their obedience to the laws of
God, which were given them as a body politic, and which, so long
as they observed, they were continued in the quiet and full
enjoyment of all the blessings of it; so, when Christ came, had
they received, embraced, and acknowledged him as the Messiah, and
been obedient to his will, though only externally, they would
have remained in their own land, and enjoyed all the good things
in it undisturbed by enemies.