God.” And in many other places. If the expression in the text be understood agreeable to this sense, then by “seeking the Lord of Hosts,” we must understand a seeking, that God who had withdrawn, as it were hid himself, for a long time, would return to his church, and grant the tokens and fruits of his gracious presence, and those blessed communications of his Spirit to his people, and to mankind on the earth, which he had often promised, and which his church had long waited for. And it seems reasonable,