impose their hands upon the head of the Ram. And thou shalt kill the Ram and take of his blood and put upon the tip of the right eare of Aaron and upon the tip of the right eare of his Sons and upon the thumbe of their right hand and upon the great toe of their right foot And shalt sprinkle the blood upon the altar round about And thou shalt take of the blood which is upon the Altar and of the anointing oile and shalt sprinkle upon Aaron and upon his garments and upon his Sonnes and upon the garments of his Sons with him and he shall be sanctified and his garments and his sonnes and his sonnes garments with him And thou shalt take of the Ram the fat and the rumpe and the fat that covereth the inwards and the caule above the liver and the two kidneyes and the fat which is upon them and the right shoulder for it is a ram of filling the hand And one loafe of bread and one cake of oile bread and one wafer out of the basket of unlevened cakes which is before Iehovah And thou shalt put al on the palmes of-the-hands of Aaron on the palmes-of-the-hands of his Sonnes and thou shalt wave them for a wave offring before Iehovah And thou shalt receive them from their hand and shalt burne them upon the Altar for a Burnt-offring for a savour of rest before Iehovah it is a Fire offring unto Iehovah And thou shalt take the brest of the ram of the filling of the hand which is for Aaron and wave it for a wave offring before Iehovah and it shall be thy part And thou shalt sanctifie the brest of the wave offring and the shoulder of the heave-offring which is waved w ch is heaved-up of the ram of the filling of the hand of that which is for Aaron of that which is for his Sons And it shall be Aarons and his Sonnes by a statute for ever from the sonnes of Israel for it is an heave-offring and it shall be an heave-offring from the sons of Israel of the sacrifices of their peace-offrings even their heave-offring unto Iehovah And the garments of holinesse which are Aarons shall be his sonnes after him to be anointed in them and to fill their hand in them Seven daies shall he that is Priest in his stead of his sonnes bee clad in them when hee shall come into the Tent of the Congregation to minister in the Holy Place And thou shalt take the Ram of the filling of the hand and shalt seeth his flesh in the holy place And Aaron and his sons shall eate the flesh of the Ramme and the bread which is in the basket at the doore of the Tent of the Congregation And they shall eate those things with the which atonement-was-made to fill their hand to sanctifie them and a stranger shall not eate of them because they are holy And if there remaine of the flesh of the filling of the hand of the bread unto the morning then thou shalt burn the remainder w th fire it shall not be eaten because it is holy And thou shalt doe unto Aaron and to his Sonnes thus according to all which I have commanded thee seven dayes shalt thou fill their hand And thou shalt make ready for every day a bullocke for a sinne offring for atonements and thou shalt purifie the altar when thou makest atonement for it and thou shalt anoint it to sanctifie it Seven daies thou shalt make atonement for the altar and sanctify it the altar shal be Holy of holies whatsoever toucheth the altar shall be holy And this is that which thou shalt make ready upon the altar two lambes of the first yeere day by day continually The one lambe thou shalt make ready in the morning and the other lambe thou shalt make ready betweene the two evenings And a tenth deale of floure mingled with the fourth part of an Hin of beaten oile and for a drinke-offring the fourth part of an Hin of wine for the one lambe And the other lambe thou shalt make ready betweene the two evenings according to the meat offring of the morning and according to the drinke-offring thereof shalt thou make for it for a savour of rest a Fire offring unto Iehovah This shall be a continuall burnt-offring throughout your generations at the doore of the Tent of the congregation before Iehovah where I will meet with you to speake unto thee there And I will meet there with the Sons of Israel and he shall be sanctified by my gloty And I will sanctifie the Tent of the congregation and the altar Aaron his Sons I will sanctifie to minister-in-the-priests-office unto me And I will dwell amongst the sonnes of Israel and will befor a God unto them And they shall know that I am Iehovah their God that broght theÌ„ forth out of the Land of Egypt that I may dwell amongst them I Iehovah their God Annotations THE thing Hebrew the word the Greek saith these things God having chosen Aaron and his seed to bee Priests unto him entreth them into their office by many rites as Washing Clothing Anointing Sprinkling and Offring of sacrifices for their consecration bullocke in Hebrew Par which is greater then a calfe but not so great as an oxe The Hebrew Doctors thus distinguish them Wheresoever it is said g 〈…〉 gel a calfe that is a yong one of the first yeare but par a bullocke is a yong one of the second yeere Maimony treat of Sacrifices Chap. 1. Sect. 14. yongling of the herd or yong oxe Hebrew sonne of the oxe or of the herd The Greeke saith of the oxen See the fulfilling of this precept in Levit 8. 〈…〉 es these were also of the second yeere 〈◊〉 lambes were of the first perfect thâ—â— is without blemish want superfluitie or deformitie See the notes on Exod. 12. 5. These sacrifices figured Christ who was without blemish without 〈◊〉 1 Pet. 1. 19. Ver. 2. unlevened which signified sinceritie and in 〈…〉 ruption See Ex. 12. 8. 15. oile which sign 〈…〉 d the graces of Gods Spirit 1 Ioh. 2. 27. See the notes on Exod. 30. 25. flowre the best part of the principall grain called somtime the fat of wheat Deut. 32. 14. with such God spiritually feedeth his Charch Psal. 81. 17. and 147. 14. Such bread signified Christ also whom the Father giveth us to feed upon Ioh. 6. 32. 33. V. 4. the Tent the whole Tabernacle or Habitation of God is so called of one principall part therof Exod. 26. called the Tent of Congregation or of meeting because there the people assembled and there God met with them as after in v. 43. Here the Priests were to be presented before God and before the people who were also there gathered together Lev. 8. 3. So the ministers of Christ were ordained in the Churches Act. 14. 23. and 6. 5. 6. water out of the sanctified Laver Exo. 30. 18. 19. for it was made
unto him without the campe bearing his reproach c. Heb. 13. 10. 13. Teaching us hereby to have communion with Christ both by faith in applying to our selves his death and sufferings 1 Pet. 3. 18. Gal. 2. 20. and in partaking of his afflictions going out from our earthly habitations and seeking the things that are above 1 Pet. 4. 1. Coloss. 2. 12. 13. and 3. 2. 1. Knowing this that our old man is crucified with him that the body of sin might be destroyed that henceforth we should not serve sinne Rom. 6. 6. CHAP. VII 1 The law of the Trespasse-offring 11 and of the Peace-offrings 12 Whether they were for Thanksgiving 16 or a vow or a voluntary offring 23 The Fat 26 and the blood are forbidden to be eaten 28 The Priests portion in the Peace-offrings ANd this is the law of the Trespasse-offring it is holy of holies In the place where they kill the Burnt-offring shall they kill the Trespasse offring and the blood therof shall he sprinkle upon the alâ—ar round about And he shall offer of it all the fat thereof the rump and the fat that covereth the inwards And the two kidneyes and the fat which is upon them which is upon the flankes and the caule above the liver with the kidneyes hee shall take-away it And the Priest shall burne them upon the altar for a Fire offring unto Iehovah it is a Trespasse offring Every male among the Priests shall eate thereof in the holy place shall it be eaten it is holy of holies As is the Sin offring so is the trespasse offring there is one law for them the Priest that shall make-atonement therwith his shall it be And the Priest that offreth a mans Burnt-offring the skin of the burnt-offring which he hath offred it shall be for the Priest himselfe And every Meat-offring that is baken in the oven and all that is made in the frying-pan and on the pan shall bee for the priest himselfe that offreth it And every Meat-offring mingled with oyle and dry shall be for all the sonnes of Aaron one as much as another And this is the law of the sacrifice of Peace-offrings which he shall offer unto Iehovah If he offer it for Confession then he shall offer with the sacrifice of Confession unlevened cakes mingled with oile and unlevened wafers aâ—ointed with oile and of fine flowre hastily-fryed cakes mingled with oile With the cakes levened cakes of-bread shall he offer for his oblation with the sacrifice of Confession of his Peace-offrings And he shall offer one of them out of the whole oblation for an Heave-offring unto Iehovah it shall be of the Priests even his that sprinkleth the blood of the peace-offrings And the flesh of the lacrifice of Confession of his Peace-offrings shall bee eaten in the day of the offring of it he shall not leave of it untill the morning And if the sacrifice of his oblation bee a vow or a voluntary offring it shall be eaten in the day that hee offreth his sacrifice and on the morrow the remainder also of it shall bee eaten But the remainder of the flesh of the sacrifice in the third day shall be burnt with fire And if any of the flesh of the sacrifice of his Peace-offrings be eaten at all in the third day it shall not be favourably-accepted hee that offreth it it shall not bee imputed unto him it shall bee a polluted-thing and the soule that eateth of it shal beare his iniquity And the flesh that toucheth any uncleane-thing shall not bee eaten it shall bee burnt with fire and the flesh every one that is cleane shall eate the flesh But the soule that eateth the flesh of the sacrifice of Peace-offrings which pertaine unto Iehovah and hath his uncleannes upon him even that soule shall be cut-off from his peoples And the soule that shall touch any uncleane thing the uncleannesse of man or an unclean beast or any abomination that is uncleane and eate of the flesh of the sacrifice of Peace-offrings which pertaine unto Iehovah even that soule shall be cut off from his peoples And Iehovah spake unto Moses saying Speake unto the sonnes of Israel saying yee shall not eate any fat of oxe or of sheepâ— or of goat And the fat of a carkasse and the fat of that which-is-torne-in-peeces shall be used for any worke but eating yee shall eat of it For whosoever eateth the fat of the beast of which he offreth a Fire offring unto Iehovah even the soule that eateth it shall be cut off from his peoples And ye shall not eat any blood in any of your dwellings of fowle or of beast Any soule that eateth any blood even that soule shal bee cut-off from his peoples And Iehovah spake unto Moses saying Speake unto the sonnes of Israel saying He that offreth the sacrifice of his Peace-offrings unto Iehovah shall bring his oblatioÌ„ unto Iehovah of the sacrifice of his peace-offrings His hands shall bring Iehovahs Fire offrings the fat with the breast it shall he bring the breast to wave it for a Wave-offring before Iehovah And the priest shal burne the fat upon the altar and the breast shall bee Aarons and his sonnes And the right shoulder shall ye give for a Heave-offring unto the priest of the sacrifices of your Peace-offrings He of the sonnes of Aaron that offreth the blood of the peace-offrings and the fat his shall the right shoulder bee for a portion For the wave breast and the hâ—ave shoulder have I taken of the sonnes of Israel from off the sacrifices of their Peace-offrings and have given them unto Aaron the Priest and unto his sonnes by a stature for ever from among the sons of Israel This is the anointing of Aaron and the anointing of his sonnes out-of Iehovahs fire offrings in the day when hee presented them to minister-in-the-priests-office unto Iehovah Which Iehovah commanded to give unto them in the day that hee anointed them from among the sonnes of Israel by a statute for ever throughout their generations This is the law of the Burnt-offring of the Meat-offring and of the Sin offring and of the Trespasse offring and of the fillings of the hand and of the sacrifice of Peace-offrings Which Iehovah commanded Moses in Mount Sinai in the day that he commanded the sonnes of Israel to offer their oblations unto Iehovah in the wildernesse of Sinai Annotations TRespass-offring Hebrew Asham that is trespass or guiltinesse in Greeke the Ram for trespasse This is an explanation of things commanded in Lev. 5. holy Hebrew holines of holinesses that is a most holy thing so in vers 6. Ver. 2. the place the Northside of the altar Lev. 1. 11. figuring the place where Christ our sinne and Trespass-offering should be killed for us as is noted on Lev. 6. 25. he sprinkle meaning the Priest as hee sprinkled the blood of the Burnt-offrings and of the Peace-offrings See the notes on Lev. 1. 5. and 3. 2. 8. V. 3. the
Hebrewes testifie in Talmud Bab. in Ioma c. 1. that they had not the Fire from heaven any more See the annotations on Exod. 28. 30. shouted with astonishment and joy humbly thanking God for this signe of grace towards them as the Greeke translateth they were astonished and the Chaldee they gaue thankes So in 2 Chron. 7. 3. when all the sonnes of Israel saw how the fire came down and the glory of Iehovah upon the house they howed themselves with their faces to the ground upon the pavement and worshipped and confessed to Iehâ—vâ—h saying For he is good for his mercy endureth for ever CHAP. X. 1 Nadab and 〈…〉 for offring of strange fire are 〈…〉 fire 6 〈…〉 and his sonnes are forbidden to moâ—râ—e for them 8 The Priests are forbidden wine when they are to goâ— into the Tabernaclâ— 12 The law of eating the holy things 16 Moses blameth the Priests for not eating the sin-offring 19 Aaron excuseth the transgression AND Nadab and Abihu the sonnes of Aaron tooke eâ—h man his censer and they put fire in them and put incense thereon and offred before Iehovah strange fire which hee had not commanded them And there went-out fire from before Iehovah and devoured them and they died before Iehovah And Moses said unto Aaron This is it that Iehovah spake saying I will bee sanctified in them that come â—igh me and before all the people I will be glorified and Aaron held his peace And Moses called Misael and Elzaphan the sonnes of Vzziel the uncle of Aaron and said unto them Come-neere cary your brethren from before the Sanctuarie out of the camp And they went neere and caried them in their coats out of the campe as Moses had spoken And Moses said unto Aaron and unto Eleazar and unto Ithamar his sonnes Make not bare your heads neither â—end your clothes that you dye not and wrath come upon all the congregation but your brethren all the house of Israel shall weepe for the burning which Iehovah hath burned And ye shall not goe-out from the doore of the Tent of the Congregation lest you die for the oile of the anoynting of Iehovah is upon you and they did according to the word of Moses And Iehovah spake unto Aaron saying Doe not drinke wine or strong-drinke thou or thy sonnes with thee when ye goe-in to the Tent of the Congregation that yee diâ— not it shall be a statute for ever through-out your generations And that ye may separate betweene holy and profane and betweene uncleane and cleane And that ye may teach the sonnes of Israel all the statutes which Iehovah hath spoken unto them by the hand of Moses And Moses spake unto Aaron and unto Eleazar and unto Ithamar his sonnes that were left Take ye the Meat-offring that is left of the Fire offrings of Iehovah and â—aâ— it in unlevened cakes beside the altar for it is holy of holies And ye shall eat it in the holy place for it is thy due and thy sonnes due of the Fire offrings of Iehovah for so I was commanded And the wave brest anâ— the heave shoulder ye shall eat in a cleaâ—s place thou and thy sonnes and thy daughters with thee for they are given as thy due and thy sonnes due out of the sacrifices of the Peace-offrings of the sonnes of Israel The heave shoulder and the wave brest with the Fire offrings of the fat shall they bring to wave for a wave-offring before Iehovah and it shall be for thee and for thy sonnes with thee by a statute for ever as Iehovah hath commanded And Moses seeking sought the goat-buck of the Sin offring and behold it was burnt and he was wroth with Eleazar and with Ithamar the sonnes of Aaron that were left saying Wherefore have ye not eaten the Sin offring in the holy place for it is holy of holies and it hee hath given to you to beare the iniquitie of the Congregation to make atonement for them before Iehovah Behold the blood of it was not brought-in to the Holy place within ye should eating have eaten it in the Holy place as I commanded And Aaron spake unto Moses Behold this day they have offred their Sin offring and their Burnt-offring before Iehovah and such things have befallen me and if I had eaten the Sin offring to day should it have beene good in the eyes of Iehovah And Moses heard it and it was good in his eyes Annotations CEâ—â—â—er or fire-pan a vessell wherein coales of fire were put see Exod. 27. 3. thereon upon the fire How the incense was burned see the notes on Exod. 30. 8. strange fire that is other fire then God had sanctified on his altar As strange incense was expresly forbidden Exod. 30. 9. so strange fire was not commanded but implicitly forbidden by Lev. 1. 7. 6. 12. as afterward God plainly sheweth in Levit. 16. 12. Hereupon it is said in Rev. 8. 5. the Angell tooke the censer and filled it with fire of the Altar This transgression of the Priests in the beginning of their administration sheweth the weakenesse and imperfection of that Priest-hood and for the weaknesse and unprofitablenesse therof it was alterwards disanulled and a better Priest-hood of Christ who was holy harmelesse undefiled and separated from sinners is come in place thereof for the Law made nothing perfect Heb. 7. 18. 19. 26. So in the practice of the moral law the people even at the first fell into open impiety Exod. 3â— Vers. 2. from before or from the face of the Lord. As a fire of mercie came from thence to consume the sacrifices for sinne offred according to the law Levit. 9. 24. so now a fire of judgment commeth to consume the sinners Chazkuni here observeth Measure for measure by fire they sinned and by fire they were plagued This is an example of Gods jealousie for the ordinances of the Law teaching the same much more for the Gospell Heb. 2. 2. 3. and 10. 28. 29. So he shewed an example of judgment upon two sinners at the beginning of the Christian church whereby great feare came upon all Acts 5. 1. 11. devoured or ate them that is killed them for neither their bodies nor their cloathes were burnt to ashes as appeareth by v. 5. And in Targ. Ionathan it is thus explained It burned their soules but their bodies were not burnt Hereupon our God is said to be a devouring fire Heb. 12. 29. Deut. 1 24. See a like judgment in Num. 16. 35. before Iehovah that is with sudden death before the Tabernacle wherein the Lords glory dwelt So Vzza for his errour in putting his hand to the Arke died before God 1 Chron. 13. 10. which is expounded by the Arke of God 2 Sam. 6. 7. And it is observed that these two Priests died childlesse Num. 3. 4. 1 Chron. 24. 2. Vers. 3. spake but where spake he this It may have reference to Lev. 8. 35. Or it might be spoken but not written before as Ioh. 20. 30.
make the holy Anointing oile 26 and what thingâ— should be anointed with it 32 Other men may not use it or make the 〈◊〉 34. The composition and making of the Incense 36 and use thereof 37 Men may not make the like for themselves ANd thou shalt make an altar an incense altar of incense of Shittim wood shalt thou make it A cubit 〈…〉 the length thereof and a cubit the breâ—â—â— thereof fouresqure shall it be and two 〈◊〉 the height thereof the hornes thereof shall be of the same And thou shalt overlay it with pure gold the roofe thereof and the walls thereof round-about and the hornes thereof and thou shalt make unto it a crowne of gold round about And two rings of gold shalt thou make to it under the crowne of it by the two ribbes thereof upon the two sides of it shalt thou make them and they shall be for places for the barres to beare it withall And thou shalt make the â—â—rres of Shittim wood and shalt overlay them with gold And thou shalt put it before the veile which is by the Arke of the Testimony before the Covering-mercy-seat which is over the Testimony where I will meet with thee And Aaron shall burne thereon incense of sweet-spices every morning when he dresseth the lamps he shall burne it And when Aaron causeth the lampes to ascend betweene the two evenings he shall burne it a continuall incense before Iehovah throughout your generations Ye shall not offer thereon strange incense or burnt-offring or meat-offring and drinke-offring yee shall not poure out thereon And Aaron shall make-atonement upon the hornes of it once in the yeere with the blood of the sinne offring of atonements once in the yeere shall hee make atonement upon it throughout your generations it is holyes unto Iehovah 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 And Iâ—hovah spake unto Moses saying When thou takest the Sum of the Sonnes of Israel by those that are to bee numbred of them then shall they give every man the ransome of his soule unto Iehovah when thou numbrest them that there be no plague amongst them when thou numbrest them This they shall give every one that passeth among them that are numbred halfe a shekell by the shekell of the Sanctuary the shekell is twenty gerahs an halfe shekell shall be an heave-offring to Iehovah Every one that passeth among them that are numbred from twenty yeeres old and above hee shall give the heave-offring of Iehovah The rich shall not give-more and the poore shall not give-lesse then halfe a shekell in giving the heave-offring of Iehovah to make atonement for your soules And thou shalt take the silver of the atonements of the sons of Israel and shalt give it for the service of the Tent of the congregation and it shall be for a memoriall for the Sonnes of Israel before Iehovah to make atonement for your soules And Iehovah spake unto Moses saying Thou shalt also make a Layer of brasse and his foot of brasse to wash and thou shalt put it betweene the Tent of the congregation and the altar and thou shalt put water there in And AaroÌ„ his sons shal wash therefrom their hands and their feet When they goe into the Tent of the congregation they shall wash with water that they dye not or when they come-neere to the altar to minister to burn the Fire offring unto Iehovah And they shall wash their hands and their feet that they dye not and it â—â—â—ill be unto them a statute for ever to him and to his feed throughout their generations And Iehovah spake unto Moses saying Thou also take unto thee the chiefe of spices of pure Myrrh five hundred shekels and of sweet Cinamon the halfe thereof two hundred and fifty and of sweet Calamus two hundred and fifty And of Cassia five hundred by the shekell of the Sanctuary and of oyle olive an Hin And thou shalt make it an oyle of holy anointing a compound-ointment compounded after the worke of the Apothecary it shall be an oyle of holy anointing And thou shalt anoint therewith the Tent of the congregation and the Arke of the Testimony And the Table and all the vessels thereof and the Candlestick and the vessels thereof and the Altar of Intense And the altar of burnt-offring and all the vessels thereof and the Laver and the foot thereof And thou shalt sanctifie them and they shall bee holy of holies whatsoever toucheth them shall be holy And thou shalt anoint Aaron and his sonnes and sanctifie them to minister-in-the-priest-office unto me And thou shalt speake unto the Sonnes of Israel saying This shall be an oyle of holy anointing unto me throughout your generations Vpon mans flesh it shall not be poured and after the composition of it yee shall not 〈…〉 ke like it holinesse it is holinesse shall it be unto you Any man that shall compoundan-ointment like it or that shall put thereof upon a stranger he shall even bee cut-off from his peoples And Iehovah said unto Moses Take unto thee sweet-spices Stacte and Onycha and Galbanum sweet-spices and pure frankincense there shall be one alone with another alone And thou shalt make it an incense a confection the worke of the Apothecary salted pure holy And thou shalt beat of it pounding-â—â—-small and shalt put of it before the Testimony in the Tent of the congregation where I will meet with thee holy of Holies shall it be unto you And the incense which thou shalt make after the composition of it ye shall not make to your selves it shall be holinesse unto thee for Iehovah Any man that shall make like unto it to smell thereto shall even be cut-off from his peoples Annotations AN incense altar of incense or a perfumatorie a perfuming place of perfume where odours were burned daily and resolved into fume or smoke In the making it is called onely an altar of incense Exod. 37. 25. and so the Greeke translateth it here But because an Altar in Hebrew Mizbeach hath the name of slaine-sacrifices which were offred thereon and upon this there was no such service therefore it is called for distinction sake Miktar a Perfumatory or Incense altar The Chaldee expoundeth it Thou shalt make an Altar to offer upon it incense of sweet-spices Shittim Greeke incorruptible wood see Exod. 25. 5. Vers. 2. hornes sharpe high places in the foure corners see the notes on Exodus 27. 1. 2. c. Vers. 3. gold whereupon it was called the golden altar Num. 4. 11. Revel 8. 3. as the other covered with brasse was the brazen altar Exodus 38. 30. Of the matter underneath it is sometime called the altar of wood as in Ezek. 41. 22. where the measures of it prophesied to bee under the Gospell are larger then these under the Law For this was but one cubit long that two this two cubits high that three Because the service of God by Christs comming should bee inlarged from East to West Gods name should be
the veil c. that he died not because God would appeare in the cloud upon the Mercie-seat Lev. 16. 2. Vers. 36. journeyed in all their journeyes and in the place where the cloud abode there the sons of Israel pitched their tents Al the daies that the cloud dwelled upon the Tabernacle whether it were a day or daies or a Moneth or a yeere they rested in the tents and journeyed not when the cloud was taken up whether it were by day or by night then they journeyed At the mouth of the Lord they pitched their tents and at the mouth of the Lord they journeyed they kept the charge or watch of the Lord Num. 9. 17. 23. This token of Gods guidance and protection of his people continued with Israel whiles they travelled in the wildernesse which grace the generations following remembred to the praise of God Neh. 9. 19. Ps. 78. 14. and 105. 39. V. 38. the cloud of Iehovah which in Thargum Ierusalemy is called the cloud of the glorie of Shecinah the Divine presence of the Lord. and fire At evening there was upon the Tabernacle as it were the appearance of fire untill the morning so it was alway the cloud covered it by day and the appearance of fire by night Numb 9. 15. 16. Hereby was figured the guidance and protection of the Church by Christ under the Gospel whereof it is written The Lord will create upon every dwelling place of mount Sion and upon her assemblies a Cloud and smoake by day and the shining of a flaming fire by night for upon all the glorie shall be a defence Esay 4. 5. The number of the Sections or Lectures in Exodus are eleven the verses 1209. The middest is at Exodus 22. 28. Remember the Law of Moses my servant which I commanded him in Horeb for all Israel with the Statutes and Iudgements Malach. 4. 4. By the Law is the knowledge of Sinne Rom. 3. 20. The Law worketh wrath for where no Law is there is no transgression Rom. 4. 15. By the works of the Law shall no flesh be justified Gal. 2. 16. The Law was our Schoolemaster to bring us unto Christ Gal. 3. 24. Christ is the end of the Law for righteousnesse to every one that beleeveth Rom. 10. 4. ANNOTATIONS VPON THE THIRD BOOKE OF MOSES CALLED LEVITICVS VVHEREIN BY CONFERRING THE HOly Scriptures by comparing the Greeke and Chaldee versions and mouments of the Hebrewes the Sacrifices and other legall Ordinances heretofore commanded of God to the Church of Israel are explained BY HENRY AINSWORTH HEB. 7. 19. The Law made nothing perfect but the bringing in of a better hope by the which wee draw nigh unto God HEB. 10. 14. By one offring Christ hath perfected for ever the m that are sanctified HEB. 13. 15. By him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually that is the fruit of our lips confessing to his name LONDON ¶ Printed by Miles Flesher for John Bellamie and are to be sold at his shop neere the ROYALL EXCHANGE 1626. The Summe of LEVITICVS THis third Booke of Moses containeth the Law of Sacrifices and rites concerning them of Sacrificers and their holy ministration in the Sanctuary of the peoples sanctification from all outward and inward pollutions of religious actions to be done by the body of the Church and all the members thereof publikely and privately of the place where and times when Gods worship was chiefly to be performed with a confirmation of the whole Law by promises and threatnings All which God speaking out of the Tabernacle in the wildernesse declared unto Israel by the hand of Moses in the first moneth of the second yeere after their deliverance out of the land of Egypt which was in the yeere from the creation of the World 2514 More particularly GOD teacheth Israel how to sacrifice their Burnt offrings Chap. 1 The Meat-offring of flowre cakes wafers and first fruits 2 The Sacrifice of Peace-offrings of the herd or flocke 3 Sin-offrings for the Priest Congregation Ruler and private man 4 Trespass-offrings of sundry sorts for sundrie sinnes 5 Lawes more particularly touching the former sacrifices 6 Lawes touching the Trespass-offring and Peace-offrings Fat and Blood 7 The consecration of Aaron and his sons to the Priesthood 8 Aarons first offrings for himselfe and the people consumed by fire 9 Aarons sonnes transgress and are slaine of God Lawes for the Priests 10 The Law for cleane and uncleane beasts fowles fishes c. 11 Of a womans purification after child-birth 12 Of discerning Leprosie and judging it in men and in garments 13 Of clensing Lepers that are healed Of Leprosie in houses 14 Of the uncleane by runningyssues and their purification 15 Of the high Priests service on Atonement day to cleanse the Sanctuarie and reconcile the Church unto God once in the yeere 16 The place of sacrificing Against eating blood torne things c. 17 Against unlawfull copulations idolatrie and heathenish customes 18 Sundry lawes for holiness and righteousnes and against sins 19 Punishments for idolaters fornicators and other the like 20 Special holiness and perfection required in the Priests 21 Vncleane priests may not minister Sacrifices must be unblemished 22 The solemne feasts at certaine times of the yeere 23 Provision for Lamp oile and Shew-bread A blasphemer is stoned 24 Of the seventh or Sabbath yeere and Iubile with their rites 25 Promises and threatnings to confirme the Law of God 26 A law concerning Vowes devoted things and tithes 27 Ye shall be holy for I Iehovah your God am holy Lev. 19. 1. THE THIRD BOOKE OF MOSES CALLED LEVITICVS CHAPTER I. 1 God giveth by Moses a Law unto Israel touching the Burnt-offerings 3 of the herd 10 of the flock 13 of the fowles AND hee called unto Moses and Iehovah spake unto him out of the Tent of the Congregation saying Speake unto the sons of Israel say unto thē when any man of you shal offer an oblation to Iehovah of the cattell of the herd of the flock ye shall offer your oblation If his oblation be a Burnt-offring of the herd let him offer it a male perfect at the doore of the Tent of the congregation shall he offer it for his favourable acceptation before Iehovah And he shall lay his hand upon the head of the Burnt-offring and it shall be favourably accepted for him to make-atonement for him And hee shall kill the yongling of the herd before Iehovah and the sons of Aaron the Priests shall bring neere the blood and shall sprinkle the blood upon the Altar round about which is by the doore of the Tent of the congregation And he shall flay the Burnt-offring and shall cut it into the peices therof And the sons of Aaron the priest shall put fire upon the Altar and shall lay the wood in-order upon the fire And the sonnes of Aaron the priests shall lay in order the pieces the head the fat upon the wood w ch is on the
fire which is upon the altar And the inwards thereof and the legs thereof hee shall wash in water and the priest shall burne all upon the Altar it is a Burnt-offring a Fire offring of a favour of rest unto Iehovah And if his oblation be of the flocke of the sheepe or of the goats for a Burnt-offring he shall offer it a male perfect And he shall kill it at the side of the altar northward before Iehovah and the sonnes of Aaron the priests shall sprinkle the blood therof upon the altar round about And hee shall cut it into the pieces thereof and the head therof and the fat thereof and the Priest shall lay them in order upon the wood which is on the fire which is upon the altar And the inwards and the legs he shall wash in water and the Priest shall offer all and burne it upon the altar it is a Burnt-offring a Fire offring of a savour of rest unto Iehovah And if the Burnt-offring his oblation to Iehovah be of the fowle then hee shall offer his oblation of turtle-doves or of yong pigeons And the Priest shall bring it neere unto the altar and he shall cut-with his naile the head thereof and burne it on the altar and the blood thereof shall bee wrung out upon the side of the altar And hee shall plucke away the crop thereof with the feathers of the same and shall cast it beside the altar eastward into the place of the ashes And he shall cleave it with the wings therof he shal not divide it-asunder and the Priest shall burne it upon the altar upon the wood which is upon the fire it is a Burnt-offring a Fire offring of a savour of rest unto Iehovah Annotations LEviticus this name the booke hath from the Greeke translation because it chiefly treateth of the service and sacrifices which the Levites used in the Tabernacle The Hebrew name is of the first word of the booke Vajikra that is And he called See the like noted upon Genesis Exodus Vers. 1. And he namely the Lord whose glory had filled the Tabernacle Exod. 40. 35. called unto Moses So the Greeke also explaineth it and Thargum Ierusalemy thus And the word of the Lord called unto Moses This booke is by the word And joyned to the former as a continuance of the historie And here beginneth the 24. Section or lecture of the Law wherof see Gen. 6. 9. called The last letter of this word in Hebrew is written extraordinarily small where in the Hebrew Doctors suppose some mystery to bee implyed The manner of calling was by a voice from the mercy-seat upon the Arke Numb 7. 89. Exod. 25. 22. that being a figure of Christ signified how God by him would teach Israel how they should serve him in spirit and truth Ioh. 1. 17. Heb. 1. 1. And God spake not with a lowd thundering voice as he did on mount Sinai but with a soft low voice which the small letter seemeth to intimate The phrase he called and Iehovahs name being mentioned after is like that in Exod. 24. 1. he said come up unto Iehovah Tent or as the Chaldee translateth it Tabernacle where God and his people met at appointed times as he promised Exodus 25. 22. and 30. 36. In Greeke it is the Tent or Tabernacle of testimonie by which name Moses also calleth it in Numb 1. 53. and Stephen in Act. 7. 44. As the Tabernacle principally figured Christ Heb. 9. 11. Ioh. 2. 19 21. so God speaking now from it who before had spoken on mount Sinai signified how in the last dayes hee would speake unto us in the Sonne who by himselfe should purge our sins Heb. 1. 1. 2. 3. Vers. 2. offer an oblation or an offring or bring neere a gift called in Hebrew Korban of comming neere unto God thereby the Greek usually translateth it doron a gift and so doth the Holy Ghost in Mark 7. 11. Mat. 5. 23. and 8. 4. and 23. 18. Hebr. 5 1. And to bring-neere to weet unto God is to offer unto him for one of these is used for another as in 1 Chor. 16. 1. they brought neere Burnt-offrings for which in 2 Sam. 6. 17. is written David offred Burnt offrings These offrings under the Law were figures of Christs offring who gave himselfe for us Heb. 10. and by whom wee also present our bodies a living sacrifice holy acceptable unto God Rom. 12. 1. and doe draw nigh unto God Heb. 7. 19. and offer by him the sacrifice of praise unto God continually Heb. 9. 11. 12. 14. and 13. 15. For the legal sacrifices could not make him that did the service perfect as pertaining to the conscience Heb. 9. 9. And so the wise among the Hebrewes doe acknowledge their ignorance concerning the truth of these mysteries untill the spirit from above be powred out upon them yet supposing that they signified the offrings which Michael offreth of the soules of the just as saith R. Menachem on Levit. 1. But unto us the Apostles have opened these parables and shewed their full accomplishment by Michael that is Christ Heb. 7. and 8. and 9. and 10. Rev. 12. 7. the herd or the Beeves or Bulls as the Chaldee expounds them These cattel of the herd and flock were the principall sacrifices both among Iewes and Gentiles as the law here and Balaams historie Numb 23. 1. 14. 29. and heathen writers manifest Homer Iliad 1. flocke the word comprehendeth sheepe and goats as is explained in verse 10. No beasts might bee sacrificed to God but these three sorts beeves sheepe or goats nor any fowles but turtle-doves and pigeons verse 14. These five kindes of living creatures which onely might bee offred to God are of the most tame and meeke profitable and serviceable harmelesse sociable c. and so were fittest to signifie the like things in Christ and his people God appointed not that men should bee killed for sacrifices although the heathens and idolatrous Israelites sometimes killed such Psalme 106. 37. 38. because as it was not possible that the blood of Bulls and of Goats should take away sins Heb. 10. 4 so neither could the blood of men but God that is Christ was to purchase his Church with his owne blood Act. 20. 28. Verse 3. Burnt-offring called in Hebrew G 〈…〉 lah that is an Ascension in Greeke Holocautoma Hebrewes 10. 6. that is an whole-burnt-offring this was the first and principall sacrifice wherewith God was served every day by the Church of Israel Numbers 28. 3. The reason of the name is shewed on Genesis 8. 20. where also it appeareth that this kinde of sacrifice was not now first instituted but observed from the beginning and kept among the Gentiles Numbers 23. 1. 2. 3. 2 Kings 3. 27. and 5. 17. The signification was of Christ that through the eternall spirit offred himselfe unto God Hebrewes 9. 14. and 10. 8. 10. and of Christians that present their bodies a living sacrifice holy acceptable unto God
reformation As for the outward sacrifices God testifieth I desired mercie and not sacrifice and the knowledge of God more then Burnt offrings Hos. 6. 6. and David saying that the Lord delighted not in sacrifice nor would accept of a Burnt-offring addeth The sacrifices of God are abroken spirit c. Psal 51. 18. 19. And the wisest of the Scribes of old could say that to love God with all the heart and with all the understanding and with all the soule and with all the strength and to love his neighbour as himselfe is more then all Burnt-offrings and Sacrifices Mark 12. 33. CHAP. II. 1 The meat-offring of flowre with oile and incense 4 The Meat-offring baked in the oven Cakes or Wafers 5 The Meat-offring baked on a plate 7 or in a frying-pan 11. all without Leaven 12. 14. The Meat-offring of the first fruits in the eare 13 The salt of the offrings AND a soule when it will offer an oblation of Meat-offring unto Iehovah his oblation shall be of fine-flowre and he shall powre oile upon it and put frankincense upon it And hee shall bring it unto the sonnes of Aaron the Priests and hee shall take thereout his handfull of the flowre thereof and of the oile thereof with all the frankincense thereof and the Priest shall burne the memoriall thereof on the Altar a Fyre offring of a savour of rest unto Iehovah And the remnant of the Meat-offring shall be Aarons and his sonnes it is Holy of holyes of Iehovahs Fyre offrings And when thou shalt offer an oblation of a Meat-offring baked in the oven it shall be of fine-flowre unlevened cakes mingled with oile or unlevened wafers anoynted with oile And if thy oblation be a Meat-offring on a pan it shall be of fine-flowre mingled with oile unlevened Thou shalt part it in pieces and powre oile thereon it is a Meat-offring And if thy oblation be a Meat-offring of the frying-pan it shall bee made of fine-flowre with oile And thou shalt bring the Meat-offring which shall be made of these things unto Iehovah and he shall offer it unto the Priest and hee shall bring it unto the Altar And the Priest shall take-up from the Meat-offring a memoriall thereof and shall burne it upon the Altar a Fyre offring of a savour of rest unto Iehovah And the remnant of the Meat-offring shall be Aarons and his sonnes it is Holy of holyes of Iehovahs Fyre offrings No Meat-offring which yee shall offer unto Iehovah shall be made with leven for ye shall not burne any old-leven nor any honey in a Fyre offring unto Iehovah In the oblation of the first-fruits ye shall offer them unto Iehovah but they shall not ascend on the Altar for a savour of rest And every oblation of thy Meat-offring thou shalt salt with salt and thou shalt not let cease the salt of the covenant of thy God from on thy meat-offring with every oblation of thine thou shalt offer salt And if thou shalt offer a Meat-offring of first fruits to Iehovah thou shalt offer for the Meat-offring of thy first fruits greene-ears-of-corne parched in the fire ground-corne out of the full-eare And thou shalt put oile upon it and lay frankincense upon it it is a Meat-offring And the Priest shall burne the memoriall of it of the ground-corne thereof and of the oile thereof with all the frankincense thereof a Fyre offring unto Iehovah Annotations ASoule that is a person or man as the Chaldee translateth it Therefore in the next words he saith his oblation and he shall poure as shewing a man to be meant See the notes on Gen. 12. 5. and 14. 21. when it or if he will offer to weet voluntarily A particular person might bring a voluntary meat-offring though he were the anoynted Priest but the Congregation brought no voluntary Meat-offring saith Chazkuni on this place an oblation of Meat-offring Hebr. korban Minchah that is the offring or gift called Minchah which was of things without life as flowre cakes wafers c. Minchah was generally any solemne gift or Present unto God or man 1 Sam. 10. 27. in speciall a present or sacrifice unto God Gen. 4. 3. 4. more specially an offring of the fruits of the earth of us now called a Meat-offring we might call it a Wheatoffring for it was for the most part of the flowre of wheat Ezek. 45. 13. 15. 1 Chron. 21. 23. Exod. 29. 2. The Greeke sometime keepeth the Hebrew name Manaa Ezek. 46. 5. 7. 11. c. in this place and often elsewhere Thusia a sacrifice and in Psal. 40. 7. prosphora an offring and this the Apostle followeth Heb. 10. 5. 8. 10. and the former Thusia is approved in Mark 9. 49. from Levit. 2. 13. and in Act. 7. 42. from Amos 5. 25. Of these some were Meat-offrings of the Congregation some of particular persons The congregations offrings were three the waved sheafe Levit. 23. 10. 11. the two wave-loaves Levit. 23. 17. and the shew bread made every weeke Levit. 24. 〈…〉 This Shew bread came not on the Altar but was all eaten by the Priests The particular persons Meat offrings were nine and all of them came to the Alta◠1. The poore mans Meat offring for sinne Levit. 5. 11. 2. the jealousy offring Num. 5. 15. 3. The Meat-offring of Initiation which every Priest offred when he first entred into his service Levit. 8. 26. 28. 4. The Meat-offring which the high Priest offred every day Levit. 6. 20. 5. The Meat offring of fine 〈…〉 re 6. The Meat offring baked on a plate 7. in a 〈…〉 ing-pan 8. in an oven 9. or wafers all mentioned in Levit. 2. and all these five kindes came for vowe◠or for voluntary offrings Maimony treat of offring the sacrifices chap. 12. Sect. 1. 3. 4. The Minchah or Meat-offring was primarily a figure of Christ his oblation who gave himselfe for us an Oblation and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling savour Eph. 5. 2. So the Apostle openeth it in Heb. 10. from the 40. Psalme Sacrifice and Oblation Minchah thou wouldest not but a bodie hast thou prepared mee c. Above when he said Sacrifice and Oblation and Burnt offrings and offrings for sin thou wouldest not c. then said he Loe I come to doe thy will O God c. By the which will we are sanctified through the offring of the body of Iesus Christ once Heb. 10. 5. 8. 9. 10. So that in the Oblation of Christs body this legall service was accomplished and ended for it served also to expiate sinnes as the Lord sware that the iniquitie o 〈…〉 Elies house should not be purged with sacrifice or Minchah Meat-offring for ever 1 Sam. 3. 14. and as David sheweth saying If the Lord have styrred thee up against mee let him smell that is favourably accept a Minchah or Meat-offring 1 Sam. 26. 19. Therefore when Christ himself was come this Meat offring ceased as was foretold in Dan. 9. 27. he shal cause
sanctified 1 Cor. 15. 20. Rom. 11. 16. Ioh. 12. 24. the parching breaking grinding c. figured his suffering for us being bruised for our iniquities Esa. 53 5. Whereby he was offred for a sweet favour unto God And with him we are partakers in our measure Rom. 8. 17. Colos. 1. 24. Vers. 15. shalt put Heb. shalt give which the Greeke translateth shalt poure oile which was according to other meat-offrings a log of oile and an handfull of frankincense signifying the graces of God in Christ and his members and the sweet odour of his oblation for us See more in the notes on Levit. 23. 10. touching this manner of service CHAP. III. 1 The Peace-offrings of the herd 6 and of the stocke 7 either Sheepe 12 or Goat AND if his oblation be a sacrifice of Peace-offrings if he offer it of the herd whether it be male or female he shall offer it perfect before Iehovah And he shall lay his hand upon the head of his oblation and he shall kill it at the doore of the Tent of the Congregation and Aarons sonnes the Priests shall sprinkle the blood upon the Altar round-about And he shall offer of the sacrifice of the Peace-offrings a Fire offring unto Iehovah the fat that covereth the inwards and all the fat that is upon the inwards And the two kidneyes and the fat which is upon them which is upon the flanks the caule above the liver with the kidneyes he shall take-away it And Aarons sonnes shall burne it on the Altar with the Burnt-offring which is upon the wood that is on the fire it is a Fire offring of a savour of rest unto Iehovah And if his oblation for a sacrifice of Peace-offrings unto Iehovah be of the flock male or female he shall offer it perfect If he offer a Lamb for his oblation then shall he offer-it before Iehovah And he shall lay his hand upon the head of his oblation and he shall kill it before the Tent of the congregation and Aarons sonnes shall sprinkle the blood thereof upon the Altar round-about And hee shall offer of the sacrifice of the Peace-offrings a Fire offring unto Iehovah the fat thereof and the whole rumpe it shall he take-off hard-by the backbone and the fat that covereth the inwards and all the fat that is upon the inwards And the two kidneyes and the fat that is upon them which is upon the flankes and the caule above the liver with the kidneyes he shall take-away it And the Priest shall burne it upon the Altar it is the bread of the Fire offring unto Iehovah And if his oblation be a Goat then he shall offer it before Iehovah And he shall lay his hand upon the head of it and he shall kill it before the Tent of the congregation and Aarons sonnes shall sprinkle the blood thereof upon the Altar round-about And hee shall offer thereof his oblation a Fyre offring unto Iehovah the fat that covereth the inwards and all the fat that is upon the inwards And the two kidneyes and the fat that is upon them which is upon the flankes and the caule above the liver with the kidneyes he shall take away it And the Priest shall burne them upon the Altar it is the bread of the Fire offring for a savour of rest all the fat is Iehovahs It shall be an eternal statute for your generations through-out all your dwellings any fat or any blood ye shall not eat Annotations HIs oblation his korban which the Greeke translateth his gift unto the Lord so korban is by the Euangelift expounded a gift Mark 7. 11. Peace-offrings or Pay-offrings Hebr. a sacrifice of Payments or of pacifications or of perfections whereby men paid unto God Confession and thankes for their peace and prosperitie and for his performing of mercies and pacification and paid their vowes as is written Thy vowes are upon mee O God I will pay confessions unto thee Psal. 56. 13. and Peace-offrings are upon me this day have I payed my vowes Proverbs 7. 14. These sacrifices were of sundry sorts either for Confession or Thanks giving Lev. 7. 11. 12. or for a Vow or for a Uoluntary offring Levit. 7. 16. Here and usually in the law the word is Shelamim as of many payments or thankes due unto God for his many benefits as David professeth Psalme 116. 12. 14. 17. 18. but in Amos 5. 22. it is used singularly Shelem The Greeke often translateth it Eirenikee that is a Pacifying or Peace offring but here and most commonly Soterion a sacrifice of salvation offred unto God for his salvation of men The Chaldee hath the sacrifice of sanctities or sanctifications whether because none but clean sanctified persons might eat of it Leviticus 7. 19. 20. or for sanctifying the name of God by it Sol. Iarchi saith they are called Peace-offrings because they bring peace into the world as also because by them there is peace to the Altar to the Priests and to the owners that is every of these have a part in the Peace-offrings R. Menachem saith it is of like meaning as that in Esay 44. 28. He shall performe all my pleasure The mysterie of this sacrifice is opened in Hosea 14. 2. Take-away Lord all iniquity and receive or give good and we will pay the bullockes of our lips which the Greeke there translateth the fruit of our lips and the Apostle likewise saith By him that is by Iesus let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually that is the fruit of the lippes confessing to his name Heb. 13. 15. These Peace-offrings were also given when men in their troubles prayed unto God for peace and salvation Iudges 20. 26. and 21. 4 1 Chronicles 21. 26. That as the Burnt offring in Lev. 1. figured our reconciliation to God by the death of Christ and the Meat-offring in Lev. 2. our sanctification in him before God so this Peace-offring signified both Christs oblation of himselfe whereby he became our Peace and salvation Ephes 2. 14. 15. 16. Acts 13. 47. Heb. 5. 9. and 9. 28. and our oblation of praise thanks giving and prayer unto God in the middest of troubles tentations and spirituall combats which we fight by faith in this life so that we come boldly unto the throne of grace that we may receive mercy and finde grace to helpe in time of need Heb. 4. 16. or female herein it differeth from the Burnt-offring which was to be of the males onely Lev. 1. 3. By this distinction of sexes the Hebrewes gather that the beast which was neither perfect male nor female or both male and female though it had no other blemish was not fit for sacrifice Maimony in Issurei Mizbeach chap. 3. Sect. 3. Spiritually wee may apply this to the state of the Church in Christ in whom there is neither male nor female but all are one in him Gal. 3. 28. And that God accepteth not onely the sacrifice of Christ but ours also in him Heb.
law of the Burnt-offring 14 and of the Meat-offring 19 The offring at the consecration of a Priest 24 The law of the Sin-offring AND Iehovah spake unto Moses saying A soule when it shall sin transgresse a transgression against Iehovah and falsly deny unto his neighbour in a thing-delivered-him to-keepe or in the putting of the hand or in a thing-taken-awayby-violence or hath deceitfully-oppressed his neighbour Or have found a thing lost and falsly-denieth concerning it sweareth with falsehood for any-one of all that a man shall doe sinning in these Then it shall be when he hath sinned and is guiltie that hee shall restore the thing-taken by-violence which he violently took away or the thingdeceitfully-gotten which hee hath got-deceitfully or the thing-delivered him-to keep which was delivered unto him to keep or the lost thing which he found Or all that about which he hath sworne with falshood and he shall pay it in the principall thereof and shall adde thereto the fift parts thereof unto him to whom it appertaineth shall hee give it in the day of his Trespasse And hee shall bring his Trespasse offring unto Iehovah a ram perfect out of the â—â—ock with thy estimation for a Trespasse offring unto the Priest And the Priest shall make-atonement for him before Iehovah and it shall be mercifully-forgiven-him for any-one of all that he hath done in trespassing therein 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 And Iehovah spake unto Moses saying CoÌ„mand Aaron and his sons saying This is the law of the burnt-offring it is the burnt-offring because of the burning upon the altar al night unto the morning the fire of the altar shal beburning in it And the Priest shal put-on his linnen rayment and linnen breeches shall he put upon his flesh and he shall take-up the ashes which the fire hath consumed with the Burnt-offring on the altar and he shall put them besides the altar And he shall put-off his garments and put on other garments and shall carie forth the ashes to without the camp unto a cleane place And the fire upon the altar shall be burning in it it shall not be put-out and the Priest shall burne wood upon it every morning and shall lay-in-order upon it the Burnt-offring and shall burne upon it the fats of the Peace-offrings Fire continually shall be burning upon the altar it shall not be put-out And this is the law of the Meat-offring the sonnes of Aaron shall offer it before Iehovah before the altar And he shall take-up of it his handfull of the flowre of the Meat-offring and of the oile thereof and all the frankincense which is upon the Meat-offring and he shall burne upon the altar for a savour of rest the memoriall of it unto Iehovah And the remainder thereof shall Aaron and his sonnes eat in unlevened cakes shall it bee eaten in the holy place in the court of the Tent of the congregation they shall eat it It shall not be baken with leven I have given it for their portion of my Fire-offrings it is holy of holies as the Sin offring and as the Trespasse offring Every male among the sonnes of Aaron shall eat of it it shall be a statute for ever in your generations concerning Iehovahs Fire offrings all that toucheth them shall be holy And Iehovah spake unto Moses saying This is the oblation of Aaron and of his sonnes which they shall offer unto Iehovah in the day that he is anoynted the tenth part of an Ephah of fine-flowre for a continuall Meat-offring halfe of it in the morning and halfe of it in the evening On a pan it shall be made with oile hastily-fryed shalt thou bring it the baken pieces of the Meat-offring thou shalt offer for a savour of rest unto Iehovah And the Priest that is anoynted in his stead of his sonnes shall doe it it is a statute for ever unto Iehovah it shall be burnt for a Whole-burnt-offring And every Meat-offring of the Priest shall be Whole-burnt-offring it shall not be eaten And Iehovah spake unto Moses saying Speake unto Aaron and unto his sonnes saying This is the law of the Sin offring in the place where the Burnt-offring is killed shall the Sin offring be killed before Iehovah it is holy of holies The Priest that offreth-it-for-sin shall eat it in the holy place shall it be eaten in the court of the Tent of the congregation All that shall touch the flesh thereof shall be holy and when there is sprinkled of the blood thereof upon a garment that whereon it is sprinkled thou shalt wash in the holy place And the earthen vessell wherein it is sodden shall be broken and if it be sodden in a brazen vessell it shall be both scowred and rinsed in water Every male among the Priests shall eat thereof it is holy of holies And no Sin offring whereof any of the blood thereof is brought into the Tent of the congregation to make-atonement with in the holy place shall be eaten it shall be burnt in the fire Annotations ASoule that is man or woman as God explaineth it in Num. 5. 6. so the Chaldee expoundeth it a man transgresse it is the word before used in Levit. 5. 15. The Greeke here translateth despising despise the commendements of the Lord or neglect them falsly deny or lye as the Greeke translateth but the word meaneth lying by denyall of a thing as Gen. 18. 15. This sinne God generally forbiddeth Levit. 19. 11. And this law here concerneth sinnes both against God by swearing and against our neighbour by injuring him a thing-delivered him-to-keepe a thingcommitted-to one which shall againe be required called in Hebrew Pikkadon of encommending thing and requiring it in Greeke Parathekee or committing it to ones fidelitie which word Paul useth in 2 Tim. 1. 12. of God I am perswaded that he is able to keepe that which I have committed unto him in Latine a Depositum So in 1 Tim. 6. 20. and 2 Tim. 1. 14. In Gen. 41. 36. the word is used for store or provision laid up See the judiciall lawer for these cases in Exod. 22. 7. 10. c. the putting of the hand This phrase here onely used seemeth to meane fellowship or partnership when men deale and put their hands as it were together in a matter so the Greeke translateth it communion or societie and the Chaldee the communion or fellowship of the hand that is commerce Or we may take it for putting into the hand that is committing of a thing to ones care and fidelity to use or imploy for him It may also imply the lending of a thing or borrowing Thus Sol. Iarchi expoundeth it that he hath put money into his hand to occupie or hath lent it him a thing-taken-by-violence or arobberie rapine It implieth force as the next doth fraud 2 Sam. 23. 21. Iudg. 9. 25. This God hateth though it be for Burnt-offring Esa. 61. 8. deceitfully oppressed or defrauded by cavilation calumniation false accusation or
day that the dayes of your consecration be fulfilled which the Chaldee translateth thus till the day that the dayes of your offring be fulfilled for seven daies shall your offring be offred seven daies shall â—e fill that is the Lord shall fill or consecrate In Exod. 29. 35. God said to Moses thou shalt fill their hand so the same thing is attributed unto the Lord and unto Moses These seven daies signified their whole life which should be consecrated to the service of God see verse 11. and Levit. 4. 6. From hence also the Hebrewes gathered as Sol. Iarchi here noteth that the high Priest was to be separated from his house seven dayes before Atonement day every yere Of which point see the annotations on Levit. 16. Vers. 34. he hath done or is done As he â—â—ld 2 Sam. 15. 31. that is it was told And they brought Marke 10. 3. or Then were brought Matth. 19. 13. Vers. 35. abide Hebr. sâ—t which word is often used for abiding or câ—ntinuing as Lev. 12. 4. Ioâ— 5. 8. 1 Sam. 22. 5. Exod. 16. 29. Act. 18. 11. châ—rge or watch ward Hebr. keepe the keeping or observe the observation in Greeke the observations The Chaldee translateth it the charge or observation of the word of the Lord. This phrase is used in Luke 2. 8. of the shepheards observing the observations or keeping the watches of the night over their flocke So in Num. 9. 19. Vers. 36. things Hebr. words Thus the covenant of the Priesthood was confirmed unto the tribe of Levi in Aaron and his sonnes which covenant was life and peace Mal. 2. 5. But these are made Priests without an oath also they were many Priests because they were not suffred to continue by reason of death and they served unto the example and shadow of heavenly things offring gifts and sacrifices which could not make him that did the service perfect as pertaining to the conscience for they were carnall ordinances imposed on them till the time of reformation that is untill the comming of Christ who now is sprung out of the tribe of Iudah and was made Priest of God with an oath and suretie of a better testament all-covenant established upon better promises And because he continueth for ever he hath a Priest-hood that passeth not from him to another and is a Minister of the Holies and of the true Tahernacle which the Lord pitched and not man and not by the blood of goats and bulls but by his owne blood he entred in once into the Holy place into Heaven it selfe having found eternall redemption and is able to save fully and wholly them that come unto God by him as the Apostle largely manifesteth in Heb. 7. 8. 9. and 〈◊〉 chapters which Iehovah commanded R. Menachem here observeth In every other plaâ—e it is said As the LORD commanded Moses but 〈◊〉 because they added unto the commandement 〈…〉 so for they did not as the LORD had com 〈…〉 but did all things which the LORD commandâ—â— and added moreover unto them strange fire which he had not commanded them Levit. 10. 1. CHAP. IX 1 The first offrings of Aaron for himselfe and the people 8 The Sin-offring 12 and the Burnt-offring for himselfe 15 The offrings for the people 23 Mâ—ses and Aaron blesse the people 24. Fire commeth from the Lord upon the altar 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 AND it was on the eight day Moses called Aâ—ron and his sonnes and the Elders of Israel And hee said unto Aaâ—â—â— Take thee a calfe a yongling of the herd for a Sin offring and a ram for a Burnt-offring both perfect and offer before Iehovah And unto the sonnes of Israel Ihou shale speake saying Tak 〈…〉 a goat-bucke of the goats for a Sin offring and a calfe and a lambe both of the first yeere perfect for a Burnt-offring And a Bull and a Ram for Peace-offrings to sacrifice before Iehovah and a Meat-offring mingled with oile for to day Iehovah appeareth unto you And they tooke that which Moses commanded before the Tent of the Congregation and all the congregation drew-neere and stood before Iehovah And Moses said this is the thing which Iehovah hath commanded that yee should doe and the glory of Iehovah shall appeare unto you And Moses said unto Aaron goe neere unto the Altar and make thy Sin offring and thy Burnt-offring and make-atonement for thy selfe and for the people and make the oblation of the people and make-atonement for them as Iehovah commanded And Aaron went-neere unto the Altar and killed the calfe of the Sin offring which was for him selfe And the sonnes of Aaron brought neere the blood unto him and hee dipt his finger in the blood and put it upon the hornes of the Altar and poured out the blood at the bottome of the Altar And the fat and the kidneyes and the caule of the liver of the Sin offring he burnt upon the Altar as I 〈…〉 commanded Moses And the flâ—sh and the skin he burnt with fire without the campe And hee killed the Burnt-offring and Aarons sonnes presented unto 〈◊〉 the blood and he sprinkled it upon the Altar round-about And they presented unto him the Burnt-offring by the pieces thereof and the head and hee burnt them upon the Altar And he washed the inwards and the legges and burnt them upon the Burnt-offring on the Altar And he brought-neere the peoples oblation and tooke the goat-bucke of Sinne which was for the people and killed it and offred-it-for-sinne as the first And hee brought-neere the Burnt-offring and made it according to the manner And hee brought-neere the Meat-offring and filled his hand out of it and burnt it upon the Altar beside the Burnt-offring of the morning And he killed the bull and the ram the sacrifice of Peace-offrings which was for the people and Aarons sonnes presented the blood unto him and hee sprinkled it upon the Altar round-about And the fat of the bull and of the ram the rumpe that which covereth the inwards and the kidneyes and the caule of the liver And they put the fat upon the breasts and he burnt the fat upon the Altar And the breast and the right shoulder Aaron waved for a wave-offring before Iehovah as Moses commanded And Aaron lift-up his hand towards the people and blessed them and came-downe from making the Sin offring the Burnt-offring and the Peace-offrings And Moses and Aaron went into the Tent of the congregation and came-out and they blessed the people and the glory of Iehovah appeared unto all the people And there came out a fire from before Iehovah and consumed upon the Altar the Burnt-offring and the fat and all the people saw it and showted and they fell on their faces Annotations 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Here beginneth the 26. section or lecture of the Law see Gen. 6. 9. THe eight day which was the first day after the Priests consecration Lev. 8. 33. All creatures for the most part were in their uncleannesse and
monuments of idolatry are comprehended as Deuter. 12. 2. 3. Of this the Hebrew canons say Wee are commanded to destroy idolatry and the services thereof and whatsoever is made for the same Deuteronomy 12. And in the land of Israel we are commanded to persecute it untill it be destroyed out of all our land but without the land wee are not commanded to persecute it but every place which wee shall subdue we are to destroy all the idolatry that is therein Maimony in Misn. treat of Idolatry c. 7. S. 1. Vers. 25. thy bread c. hereby the coursest fare may be meant which by Gods blessing nourisheth as in Daniel 1. 12. 15. Or these are named for all food as the Chaldee translateth it thy meat and thy drinke and the Greeke addeth thy bread and thy wine and thy water sicknesse in Chaldee evill sicknesses Compare Exod. 15. 26. Deut. 7. 15. Vers. 26. casting or miscarrying the Greeke translateth without seed See a like promise in Deut. 7. 14. thy dayes which by the course of nature thou shouldest live So Iob dyed being old and full of dayes Iob 42. 17. whereas the wicked live not out halfe their dayes Psal. 55. 24. Vers. 27. dismay with tumult and trouble as God did before in Exod. 14. 24. So in Deut. 7. 23. Ios. 10. 10. The Greeke translateth I will astonish all nations shalt come to warre against them as the Chaldee addeth to turne this is added by the Chaldee for explanation And by turning the neeke or backe is meant their flight as the Greek translateth I will give that is make them fugitives So David praised God that had given him the neck of his enemies that is made them flee Psal. 18. 41. Vers. 28. hornets Hebr. the hornet a kinde of great waspe which stingeth venomously threatned against the Canaanites here and in Deuter. 7. 20. and shewed to be accomplished in Ios. 24. 12. These signified the stinging terrours wherewith God striketh the hearts of his enemies the Evite that is the whole nation of them as the Greek saith the Amorites and the Evites c. These were the posterity of Canaan of whom see Genesis 10. 6. 7. V. 30. fructifie that is be increased or growne Vers. 31. the river which the Greek explaineth the great river Euphrates and Moses elsewhere so nameth it Deuter. 11. 24. Gen. 15. 18. See these bounds in Numb 34. the accomplishment of this promise in part fulfilled in Solomons time 1 Kin. 4. 21. thou shalt drive the Greeke translateth I will drive Vers. 32. with them the inhabitants of the land Exodus 34. 12. 15. Deuter. 7. 1. 2 c. gods in Chaldee idols Vers. 33. if thou shalt or it may bee translated for thou wilt serve as came to passe Iudg. 1. 21. 27. 29. and 2. 1. 2. 3. 12. c. The Greeke translateth for if thou shalt serve their gods the Chaldee and thou shalt not serve their idolls surely or for it will be a snare that is a cause of thy fall and ruine a scandall unto thee See this fulfilled Iudg. 2. Psal. 106. 34. 35. 36. Numb 25. 1. 2. Compare also Deut. 7. 16. 25. A snare is used to signifie the deceit whereby men fall into sinne Deut. 12. 30. Ier. 5. 26. Prov. 13. 14. 27. and so the destruction that followeth thereupon Prov. 12. 13. Esay 8. 15. and 28. 13. Eccles. 9. 12. CHAP. XXIIII 1. Moses is called up into the mountaine 3. The people promise obedience 4 Moses buildeth an Altar and twelve pillars 6 Hee sprinkleth the blood of the covenant 9. Moses and the Elders of Israel see God 12. Moses is to goe up the mount for the the Tables 14 Aaron and Hur have the charge of the people 16 The glory of the Lord on mount Siâ—â—aâ— like devouring fire 18 Moses in the cloud and mountaine fortie daies and fortie might AND he said unto Moses Come up unto Iehovah thou and Aaron Nadab Abihu and seventy of the Elders of Israel and bow down your selves afarre off And Moses himselfe alone shall come neere unto Iehovah but they shal not come neere and the people they shall not come up with him And Moses came and told the people all the words of Iehovah and all the judgments and all the people answered with one voice and said All the words which Iehovah hath spoken wee will doe And Moses wrote all the words of Iehovah and rose up earely in the morning and builded an altar under the mount and twelve pillars according to the twelve tribes of Israel And he sent the yong men of the sons of Israel and they offered burnt offerings and sacrificed sacrifices of peace offerings of bullocks unto Iehovah And Moses tooke halfe of the blood and put it in basons and halfe of the blood hee sprinkled on the altar And he tooke the book of the covenant read in the eares of the people and they said All that Iehovah hath spoken we will doe and obey And Moses tooke the blood and sprinkled on the people and said Behold the blood of the covenant w ch Iehovah hath striken with you concerning all these words Then went up Moses and Aaron Nadab and Abihu and seventy of the Elders of Israel And they saw the God of Israel and there was under his feet as it were a worke of Saphire bricke and as the body of the heavens for cleernesse And upon the Nobles of the sons of Israel hee laid not his hand and they saw God did eat drink And Iehovah said unto Moses Come up to me into the mount and bee there and I will give thee tables of stone a law and commandement which I have written to teach them And Moses rose up and his Minister Ioshua and Moses went up into the mountaine of God And he said unto the Elders Sit yee here for us untill wee returne unto you and behold Aaron and Hur are with you who so hath matters to doe let him come neere unto them And Moses went up into the mountaine and a cloud covered the mountaine And the glory of Iehovah dwelt upoÌ„ mount Sinai the cloud covered it six dayes and in the seventh day hee called unto Moses out of the midst of the cloud And the sight of the glory of Iehovah was like devouring fire in the top of the mountaine in the eyes of the sons of Israel And Moses went in to the mids of the cloud and went up into the mountaine and Moses was in the mountaine forty dayes and fortie nights Annotations ABihu in Greeke Abioud he and Nadab were Aarons eldest sonnes Exod. 28. 1 who were afterward devoured with a fire from the Lord Levit 10. 1. 2. seventie This number was answerable to the 70. soules of Israel that came into Egypt Deut. 10. 22. and to the 70. that afterward were made the Senate of the commonwealth of Israel Numb 11. 16. 17. bow downe the Gt translateth they shall bow downe to or worship the Lord
he would have observed as mysticall As the Arke signified Gods presence and the Table with shewbread the Church standing before him so this Candlesticke signified his Law in the light whereof his people doe serve him Psal. 119. 105. Pro. 6. 23. 2 Pet. 1. 19. And the sundry branches bowles knops and flowers shew the varietie of things and of delivering them in the Scripture some easie some hard to be understood 2 Pet. 3. 16. some histories some prophesies some parables c. Vers. 33. made like almonds the Chaldee translateth figured and the Greeke figured with almond nuts and this some referre to those also which follow the knop and the flower as if they had that forme The Almond tree hath the name in Hebrew of hastie bringing forth blossomes and fruit and God likeneth the hastie performance of his word unto It Ier. 1. 11. 12. So Aarons rod miraculously bare almonds Num. 17. 8. Vers. 37. seven lamps or the lamps thereof seven which figured the seven spirits that is the manifold graces of the Spirit of God as is written there were seven lamps of fire burning before the throne which are the seven spirits of God Revel 4. 5. be that is the priest as is expressed Exod. 27. 21. Lev. 24. 3. See the notes there to ascend that is as the Chaldee translateth to burne for that the flame ascends upward So in Exod. 27. 20. But the Greeke version here understands it of setting the lamps upon the top of the branches of the candlesticke◠〈◊〉 over against the face that is right forward or straight before it as the like phrase signifie 〈…〉 Ezek. 1. 9. 12. See also Numb 8. 2. Verse 39. a talene this is the greatest weight which 〈◊〉 use it contained three thousand sheâ—els of which were two sorts common and holy as is shewed on Gen. 20. 16. This talent as all other weights about the Sanctuary being sacred was an hundred and twenty pound weight or three thousand holy shekels See the notes on Exodus 38. 24. 26. Vers. 40. that thou make or and make to wit all these things mentioned in this Chapter and those which follow as the Apostle expoundeth it see that thou make all things according c. Heb. 8. 5. And of tentimes things set downe in this manner are expounded universally as 2 Chron 6. 30. thou onely knowest the heart of the sonnes of men that is of all the sonnes of men 1 King 8. 39. So the word shall be established Deuter. 19. 15. that is every word 2 Cor. 13. 1. and till I put thine enemies Psal. 110. 1. that is all of them 1 Cor. 15. 25. as wee for give our debtors Matth. 6. 12. that is every one indebted to us Luk. 11. 4. and many the like patterne in Greeke type hereupon the Apostle noteth that the priests of Israel served unto the example and shadow of heavenly things Hebr. 8. 5. So all this glorious furniture of the Tabernacle was not for worldly pompe but for spirituall mysterie of heavenly graces which should be injoyed by Christ whereof see Revel 4. and 21. chapters Neither might Moses alter the matter forme or fashion of any particular from the patterne shewed him but was strictly bound unto it and so did observe it Exodus 39. 42. 43. CHAP. XXVI 1 God commandeth to make a Tabernacle with ten curtaines embroidered 7 And a Tent over it of eleven certaines of Goats haire 14 And a covering for the Tent of Rams skinnes and a covering of Tachash skinnes 15. The boards of the Tabernacle of Shittim wood 19 The sockets of silver 26 The bars of Shittim wood 31 The embroidered vesle betweene the most holy place and the holy 36 The hanging vesle for the doore AND thou shalt make the Tabernacle with ten curtaines of fine linnen twined and blew and purple and scarlet with Cherubims the worke of a cunning workeman shalt thou make them The length of one curtaine shall be eight and twenty cubits and the bredth foure cubits of one curtaine one measure shall be for all the curtaines Five curtaines shall be coupled together one to another and five curtaines coupled together one to another And thou shalt make loopes of blew upon the edge of the one curtaine from the selvedge in the coupling so shalt thou make in the uttermost edge of the curtaine in the second coupling Fiftie loopes shalt thou make in the one curtaine and fiftie loopes shalt thou make in the selvedge of the curtaine which is in the second coupling the loopes being one right over against another And thou shalt make fiftie taches of gold and shalt couple together the curtaines one unto another with the taches and it shall bee one Tabernacle And thou shalt make curtaines of go 〈…〉 〈◊〉 for a Tent over the Tabernacle eleven curtaines shalt thou make them The length of one curtaine shall be thirtie cuâ—its and the bredth foure cubits of one curtaine one measure shall be for the eleven curtaines And thou shalt couple together five curtaines by themselves and sixe curtaines by themselves and shalt double the sixt curtaine in the forefront of the Tent. And thou shalt make fiftie loopes on the edge of the one curtaine the outmost in the coupling and fiftie loopes on the edge of the curtaine of the second coupling And thou shalt make fiftie taches of brasse shalt put the taches into the loops and shalt couple together the Tent and it shall be one And the overplus that remaineth of the curtaines of the Tent the halfe curtaine that remaineth shall hang over on the backe sides of the Tabernacle And a cubit on this side and a cubit on that side in the remainder in the length of the curtaines of the tent it shall bee hanging over on the sides of the Tabernacle on this side and on that side to cover it And thou shalt make a covering for the tent of Rams skins died red and a covering of Tachash skins above And thou shalt make boards for the Tabernacle of Shittim wood standing up Ten cubits shall be the length of a board and a cubit and halfe a cubit the bredth of one board Two tenons for one board set in order one against another so shalt thou make for all the boards of the Tabernacle And thou shalt make the boards for the Tabernacle twenty boards for the South â—â—de Southward And foâ—â—ie sockets of silver shalt thou make under the twenty boards two 〈…〉 undeâ— one board for his two tenons and two sockets under another 〈◊〉 for his 〈…〉 And for the second side of the 〈…〉 on the North side twenty 〈…〉 And theâ— fortie sockeâ—s of silver 〈…〉 〈…〉 one â—â—ard and two soc 〈…〉 another board And for the sides of the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 thou shalt â—ake 〈…〉 And two boards shalt thou make for th 〈…〉 of the 〈◊〉 in the two sides And they shall be equally joyned be 〈…〉 〈…〉 shall bee perfectly 〈…〉 the heâ—d of it unto one ring so 〈…〉
curious girdle of the Ephod and fitly-girded him therewith And he put the Breast-plate upon him and he put in the Breastplate the Vrim and Thummim And he put the Miter upon his head and hee put upon the Miter even upon his forefront the plate of gold the crowne of holinesse as Iehovah commanded Moses And Moses took the anointing oile and anointed the Tabernacle and all that was therein and sanctified them And he sprinkled there of upon the altar seven times and anointed the altar and all the vessels thereof and the laver and the foot thereof to sanctifie them And he poured of the anointing oile upon Aarons head and anointed him to sanctifie him And Moses brought-neere Aarons sons and clothed them with costs and girded them with girdles and bound bonnets upon them as Iehovah commanded Moses And hee brought nigh the bullocke for the Sinne offring and Aaron and his sons layed their hands upon the head of the bullocke for the Sin offring And he killed it and Moses tooke the blood and put it upon the horns of the altar round about with his finger and purified the altar and the blood he poured at the bottome of the altar and sanctified it to make-atonement upon it And he tooke all the fat that was upon the inwards and the caule of the liver and the two kidneyes and their fat and Moses burned them upon the altar And the bullocke and his skin and his flesh and his dung he burnt with fire without the campe as Iehovah commanded Moses And hee brought-neer the ram for the Burnt-offring and Aaron and his sons laid their handsupoÌ„ the head of the ram And hee killed it and Moses sprinkled the blood upon the altar round about And hee cut the ram into his peeces and Moses burnt the head and the peeces and the fat And hee washed the inwards and the legs in water Moses burnt all the ram upon the altar it was a Burnt-offring for a savour of rest it was a Fire offring unto Iehovah as Iehovah commanded Moses And he brought-neere the second ram the ram of the Fillings of the hand and Aaron and his sonnes laid their hands upon the head of the ramme And he killed it and Moses tooke of the blood of it and put it upon the tip of Aarons right eare and upon the thumbe of his right hand and upon the great-toe of his right foot And he brought-neere Aarons sonnes and Moses put of the blood upon the tip of their right eare and upon the thumbe of their right hand and upon the great-toe of their right foot and Moses sprinkled the blood upon the altar round-about And he tooke the fat and the rumpe and all the fat that was upon the inwards and the caule of the liver and the two kidneys and their fat and the right shoulder And out of the basket of unlevened cakes that was before Iehovah he tooke one unlevened cake and one cake of oiled bread and one wafer and put them on the fats and on the right shoulder And hee put all on the palmes-of-the-hands of Aaron and on the palmes-of-the-hands of his sonnes and waved them for a Wave offring before Iehovah And Moses tooke them from off the palmes-of their hands and burnt them on the altar upon the Burnt-offring they were the Fillings of the hand for a favour of rest it was a â—â—re offring unto Iehvah And Moses tooke the brest and waved it for a Wave-offring before Iehovah of the ram of the Fillings of the hand it was Moses part as Iehovah commanded Moses And Moses took of the anoynting oile and of the blood which was upon the altar and sprinkled it upon Aaron upon his garments and upon his sonnes and upon his sonnes garments with him sanctified Aaron his garments and his sonnes and his sons garments with him And Moses said unto Aaron and to his sonnes Boyle the flesh at the doore of the Tent of the congregation and there eat it and the bread which is in the basket of the Fillings of the hand as I commanded saying Aaron and his sonnes shall eat it And the remainder of the flesh and of the bread ye shall burne with fire And ye shall not goe-out of the doore of the Tent of the congregation seven daies untill the day of fulfilling the dayes of your Filling of the hand for seven daies shall he fill your hand As he hath done in this day Iehovah hath commanded to doe to make-atonement for you And ye shall abide at the doore of the Tent of the congregation day and night seven dayes and shall keepe the charge of Iehovah that ye dye not for so I am commanded And Aaron and his sonnes did all the things which Iehovah commanded by the hand of Moses Annotations AAron who was before designed unto the Priests office Exod. 28. 1. Hitherto God hath given lewes for holy things now for holy persons 〈◊〉 ministers and others unto chap. 15. gar 〈…〉 the holy garments which were prescribed 〈◊〉 〈…〉 d. 28. 2. c. and made in Exod. 39. 1. c. So 〈◊〉 Thargum Ionathan it is explained the gar 〈…〉 which I commanded thee oile whereof see 〈◊〉 30. 23. c. a bullocke or bull as the 〈◊〉 explaineth it The Hebrew Par here and alwaies in the sacrifices meaneth a bull of the second yeere at the least Maimony treat of offring sacrif chap. 1. Sect. 24. for a sin offring Hebr. of sin which the Greeke translateth for sinne This and the other sacrifices were to sanctifie them unto the Priests office see Exod. 29. 1. 2. c. two rammes the one for a Burnt offring verse 18. the other for Consecration of the Priests or Filling their hand verse 22. These also were to bee above a yeere old for all tammes for sacrifice were to be of the second yeere as Lambs were of the first yeere Maimony ibidem Vers. 3. of the congregation in Greeke of testimony see Levit. 1. 1. Thus the presence of God and of the Church is here at the consecration of the Priests And by the doore of the Tent is meant the Courtyard of the same which was before the doore and all the Court was so called as Sol. Iâ—â—chi noteth on Exod. 29. Vers. 5. the thing Hebr. the word of this commandement see Exod. 29. 4. Vers. 6. water to wash away uncleannesse a signe of their sanctification from sinne by repentance and faith through the spirit of our Lord Iesus Christ who came by water and blood 1 Ioh. 5. 6. Ezek. 36. 25. Heb. 10. 22. Esay 1. 16. See the notes on Exodus 29. 4. Vers. 7. put Hebr. gave The putting off of his owne clothes signified the taking away of his iniquitie Zach. 3. 4. and these other garments signified the gifts of justice and salvation Psal. 132. 9. 16. See the particulars observed on Exod. 29. 5. c. the Coat the linnen coat which was next his skin save onely the linnen breeches under it upon
in their administration betweene Gods wrath and the people Num. 16. 46. 48. And their publike duty might not bee interrupted by private passion or affection Vers. 7. not goe out that is not leave off your ministration for griefe of this which is befallen you See the annotations on Levit. 21. 12. the oile c. which signifieth the Anointing that is the graces of the Spirit whereof Ioyfulnesse was one speciall Psal. 45. 8. 1 Thes. 1. 6. Therfore it was sin for the Priests to mourn when they administred before the Lord compare Levit. 21. 10. 11. 12. Vers. 9. wine or strong drinke The Hebrewes as Baal hatturim and others thinke that Aarons sons had sinned in drinking too much wine when they offred strange fire and that thereupon this law was given Whether that were so or not the Lord by this precept required sobrietie in the Priests and carefulnesse to administer justly lest they should drinke and forget the law as Prov. 31. 5. should erre through wine be out of the way through strong-drinke as Esay 28. 7. Accordingly the Ministers of the Gospell must be sober and not given 〈◊〉 wine 1 Tim. 3. 2. 3. It is likely that all wine was forbidden the Priests when they were to serve yet the Hebrewes have their limitations as that they might not drinke above the fourth part of a Lâ—g or of an halfe pinte of wine and that 〈◊〉 wine and at one time and of wine that was 〈◊〉 daies old at the least But if he drinke lesse then afâ—â—â—th part of a Log of wine or drinke a fourth part 〈◊〉 pause of time betweene or if it be mixed with water 〈◊〉 if hee drinke wine from the presse within 40. 〈◊〉 though more then a fourth part he is discharged and profaneth not his service If he drink more then 〈…〉 part of wine though it be mixed and though he p 〈…〉 tweene and drinke a little and a little he is guilty of death and his service is disâ—llowable Maimony in â—ath ha 〈…〉 kdash c. 1. S. 1. But the Law forbidden wine absolutely as here so in Ezek. 44. 21. 〈◊〉 shall any priest drinke wine when they enter into the 〈◊〉 ner court strong-drinke in Hebrew She 〈…〉 〈◊〉 which the Greekes borrow the word Sâ—â—â—â—â— in Luke 1. 19. and it meaneth all whatsoever maketh drunken whether drinke made of mault or of the juyce of fruits as Pearrie Sider and the like When ye goe into the Tent meaning the courtyard of the Tent to serve therein as it is opened by the Prophet when they enter into the inner court Ezek. 44. 21. The Hebrewes understand it of the court betweene the Tent and the Altar that stood in the court Every Priest that is fit for service if he drinke wine it is unlawfull for him to goe into the Sanctuarie from the Altar forward and if he doe â—oe in and serve his service is disallowed and he is guilty of death by the hand of God as it is written That ye dye not Leviticus 10. 9. And as it is unlawfull for a Priest to goe into the sanctuarie for drunkennesse so is it unlawfull for any man whether Priest or Israelite to teach when he is drunke Though he have but eaten dates c. if his senses bee troubled a little let him not teach as it is written And that yee may teach the sonnes of Israel Levit. 10. 11. Maimo ny in Biath hamikdash chap. 1. Sect. 1. 3. Vers. 10. that ye may separate or to make difference and this is meant not onely for themselves but others as in Ezek. 44. 23. they shall teach my people the difference between holy and prophane and cause them to discerne betweene uncleane and cleane And for not doing this the Priests are blamed Ezek 22. 26. See also Levit. 20. 25. holy Hebr. holinesse meaning of persons and things In Greeke between the holy ones and the profane Vers. 11. all the statutes a part of the Priests office was to teach the people as here and in Deut. 33. 10. therefore it is said The Priests lips should preserve knowledge and they should seeke the Law at his mouth for he is the Angell or Messenger of the Lord of hosts Mal. 2. 7. And as they were to teach so the things to be taught should be al Gods statutes as the Apostle saith I have kept nothing back but have shewed you al the counsel of God Act. 20. 27. Vers. 12. the Meat-offring that before mentioned in Levit. 9. 17. unlevened or eat it made into unlevened cakes See Levit. 6. 16. and 2. 10. where this law was before given which Moses here repeateth leâ—t through trouble of mind for the judgment now befallen them the Priests should forget or neglect any of Gods ordinances Vers. 13. the holy place the court of the Sanctuary as Levit. 6. 16. due or statute ordinance The Chaldee expounds it thy portion So in v. 14. Vers. 14. wave brest of the peoples Peace-offrings before mentioned Lev. 9. 18. 21. in a cleane place in Greeke an holy place meaning the campe of Israel and in ages following the citie Ierusalem where the light holy things were eaten see the notes on Levit. 6. 17. Sol. Iarchi here saith The former things in verse 13. were not eaten in an uncleane place but they being most holy were to be eaten in the holy place and these needed not be eaten within the curtatnes of the courtyard but must be eaten within the campe of Israel for that was cleane that Lepers might not come into it Num. 5. 6. so the light holy things might be eaten in all the citie Vers. 15. by a statute or for an everlasting due Of this statute see before Levit. 7. 34. Vers. 16. seeking sought that is diligently sought the Goat that spoken of in Levit. 9. 15. with Eleazar and why not with Aaron seeing he should have eaten of it vers 19. Sol. Iarchi saith For honour of Aaron he turned his face towards his sonnes and was angry Vers. 17. he that is God hath given it you by the law foregiven in Levit. 6. 26. 30. to beare or to take away as the Greeke translateth that ye should take away To beare iniquity often signifieth punishment without forgivenesse Exod. 28. 43. Levit. 20. 19. and 5. 1. 17. c. The same word is also used for bearing-away whereupon God forgiveth the sinner Exod. 28. 38. So the Priests bare that is took away the peoples sins by eating their sin-offrings wherein they figured Christ Ioh. 1. 29. Sol. Iarchi saith The Priests were they that did eat and the owners they that had the atonement Vers. 18. within into the Tabernacle for if it had then it should not be eaten but burnt Lev. 6 30. seeing it was not ye should have eaten it in the holy place without that is in the courtyard Levit 6. 26. Vers. 19. they the Targ. called Ionathans explaineth it the sonnes of Israel have offred such things that is as the Chaldee expoundeth
that they dye not or and let them not dye in their uncleannesse that is as Chazkuni expoundeth it 〈◊〉 their uncleannesse meaning both these figurative pollutions of issues lepries and the like as also their sinnes especially idolatry and corruptions of religion for which the Prophets often reproved the people under this name of pollution or uncleannesse and making the Lords Sanctuarie uncleane as Ierm 2. 23. and 7. 30. Ezek. 5. 11. and 14. 11. and 22. 3. 4. and 37. 23. CHAP. XVI 1 Moses is taught how to direct the high Priest for to doe his service on Atonement day 3 with what sacrifices he must come into the Holy-place 4 and with what garments 6 The bullocke for the Sin of the Priest himselfe 7 The two goats for the people on which lots were cast for the one to be killed and the other sent away 11 The killing of the high Priests bullocke 12. The burning of incense in the most holy 15 The killing of the goat for the people sprinkling of his blood 16 The clensing of the most holy place 18 and of the holy 20 The sending away of the scape-goat 29 The yeerly â—ast on expiation day the tenth of the seventh moneth 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ANd Iehovah spake unto Moses after the death of the two sons of Aaron when they offred before Iehovah and dyed And Iehovah said unto Moses Speake unto Aaron thy brother that he come not at all time into the Holy place within the veile before the Covering-mercie-seat which is upon the arke that hee dye not for in the cloud I will appear upon the Covering-mercie-seat With this shall Aaron come into the holy place with a bullock a yongling of the herd for a sin offring and a ram for a Burnt-offring He shall put-on an holy linnen Coat linnen Breeches shall be upon his flesh and with a linnen Girdle shall he be girded and with a linnen Miter shall he be attired they are garments of holines and he shall wash his flesh in water and put them-on And hee shall take of the Congregation of the sons of Israel two goat-bucks of the goats for a Sinne offring and one ram for a Burnt-offring And Aaron shall offer the bullocke of the Sinne offring which is for himselfe and shall make-atonement for himselfe and for his house And he shall take the two goat-bucks and present them before Iehovah at the doore of the Tent of the congregation And Aaron shall give lots upon the two goat-bucks one lot for Iehovah and one lot for the scape-goat And Aaron shall bring neer the goat-buck that upon which the lot for Iehovah did ascend and he shall make him a Sin offring But the goat-bucke that upon which the lot for the Scape-goat did ascend shalâ— bee presented alive before Iehovah to make-atonement with him to send away him for a Scape-goat into the Wildernesse And Aaron shall bring-neere the bullock of the Sinne offring which is for himselfe and shall make atonement for himselfe and for his house and shall kill the bullocke of the sin-offring which is for himselfe And hee shall take a censer full of coales of fire from off the altar before Iehovah and his hands full of incense of sweet spices beaten-small and he shall bring it within the veil And he shall put the incense upon the fire before Iehovah that the cloud of the incense may cover the Covering-mercie-seat which is upon the testimonie that he dye not And he shall take of the blood of the bullock and shall sprinkle with his finger upon the Covering-mercie-seat eastward and before the Covering-mercie-seat hee shall sprinkle of the blood with his finger seven times And he shall kill the goat-buck of the Sinne-offring which is for the people and bring his blood within the veile and shall doe with his blood as hee did with the blood of the bullock and sprinkle it upon the Covering-mercie-seat and before the Covering-mercie-seat And he shall make-atonement for the Holy place because of the uncleannesses of the sonnes of Israel and because of their trespasses and aâ—l their sinnes and so shall he do for the tent of the congregation that dwelleth with them in the middest of their uncleaÌ„nesses And there shal not be any man in the Tent of the congregation when he goeth in to make-atonement in the Holy place untill he come-out and he have made atonement for himselfe and for his house and for all the Church of Israel And hee shall goe-out unto the Altar which is before Iehovah and make-atonement for it and shall take of the blood of the bullocke and of the blood of the goat-bucke and put it upon the hornes of the altar round-about And he shall sprinkle of the blood upon it with his finger seven times and shall clense it and sanctifie it from the uncleannesses of the sonnes of Israel And hee shall make an end of making-atonement for the Holy place and the Tent of the Congregation and the Altar and hee shall bring neere the goat bucke that is alive And Aaron shall impose both his hands upoÌ„ the head of the live goatbuck and shal confesse over him all the iniquities of the sons of Israel and all their trespasses and all their sinnes and shall put them upon the head of the goat-bucke and shall send him away by the hand of a fit man into the wildernesse And the goat-bucke shall beare upon him all their iniquities unto a land of separation and he shal send away the goat-bucke into the wildernesse And Aaron shall come into the Tent of the congregation and shall put off the linnen garmeÌ„ts which he did put on when he went into the Holy place and shall leave them there And he shall wash his flesh with water in the holy place and shall put-on his garments and he shall come forth and shall make his burnt offring and the burnt-offring of the people and make-atonement for himselfe and for the people And the fat of the Sin offring he shall burne upon the altar And hee that sent away the goat-bucke for the Scape-goat shall wash his clothes and bathe his flesh in water and afterward he shall come into the campe And the bullocke for the Sin offring and the goat-bucke for the Sin-offring whose blood was brought in to make-atonement in the Holy place hee shall carie-forth without the campe and they shall burne in fire their skins and their flesh and their dung And he that burneth them shall wash his clothes and bathe his flesh in water and afterward hee shall come into the campe And this shall bee to you a statute for ever in the seventh moneth in the tenth day of the moneth yee shall afflict your soules and shall not doe any worke the home-borne or the stranger that sojourneth among you For in this day hee shall make-atonement for you to clense you from all your sinnes before Iehovah shal ye be clensed A sabbath of sabbathisme shall it be unto
empty and furnished their boothes with all comâ—ly vessels and bedding drinking vessels 〈◊〉 c. but cauldrons kettles and such like were without the boothe If the raine fell they might goe out of the boothes into their houses 〈◊〉 the raine was over At all times when they 〈◊〉 sit downe in the Boothes all the seven dayes they blessed God before they sate downe who sanctified them by his commandements and commanded them to sit in Boothes Maimony 〈◊〉 chap. 6. sect 5. c. every homebo 〈…〉 〈◊〉 borne in the land of Israel the Hebrewes 〈◊〉 women and servants and children and sicke 〈◊〉 But children of five or sixâ— yeeres old and upward were bound hereto that they might be trained up in the commandements Such as were watch men of the city by day were discharged for the day but bound to lye in boothes by night and sâ—â—h as watched by night were discharged for the night but bound by day Maimony in Shopher chapter 6. section 1. 4. Vers. 43. your generations your posterity to dwell in boothes so that the first place where â—rael camped after they came out of Egypt was called Sâ—ccoth that is Boothes Exodus 12. 3 At the eâ—d of every seventh yeere the Law was commanded to bee solemnly read before all the people at this feast that they might â—â—ame 〈◊〉 the Lord their God Deut. 31. â—0 13. See the performance here of in Neh. 8. 18. And whereas at this time of the yeere the people had gathered 〈◊〉 fruits into their houses and filled them 〈◊〉 all good things lest their prosperity should cause them to forget both God and themselves this Law was given that they should then dwell in boothes to remember their miseries past and to expect a full redemption of their bodies soules by Christ â—esus our Lord. CHAP. XXIIII 1 The Israelites are commanded to bring oile for the lampes which Aaron must order 5 The Shew bread with from kincense to be set on the Table every Sabbath and eaten by the Priests 10 23 Shelomiths son blasphemeth and is stoned to death 15 The like law is given for all blasphemers 17 Death is appointed for Murderers 18 Satisfaction for dammages and blemishes AND Iehovah spake unto Moses saying Command the sonnes of Israel that they take unto thee pure oile olive beaten for the Light to cause the lampe to ascend up continually Without the veile of the Testimonie in the Tent of the congregation shall Aaron order it from evening unto morning before Iehovah continually it shall be a statute for ever through-out your generations Vpon the pure candlesticke shall he order the lamps before Iehovah continually And thou shalt take fine-flowre and bake it twelve cakes two tenth-deales shall be in one cake And thou shalt set them in two rowes sixe on a row upon the pure table before Iehovah And thou shalt put upon each row pure frankincense that it may bee for the bread for a memoriall a Fire offring unto Iehovah In the sabbath day in the sabbath day he shall set-in-order before Iehovah continually from the sonnes of Israel an everlasting covenant And it shall be for Aaron and for his sonnes and they shall eat it in the holy place for it is holy of holies to him of the Fire offrings of Iehovah by an everlasting statute And there went out the sonne of an Israelitish woman and he was the sonne of an Egyptian man amongst the sons of Israel and the son of the Israelitesse and a man an Israelite strove-together in the campe And the Israelitish womans son blasphemed the Name and cursed and they brought him unto Moses and his mothers name was Shelomith the daughter of Dibri of the tribe of Din. And they put him in ward that hee might declare unto them by the mouth of Iehovah And Iehovah spake unto Moses 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 saying Bring-forth him that hath cursed out of the campe and let all that heard him lay their hands upon his head and let al the congregation stone him And thou shalt speake unto the sonnns of Israel saying Any man when hee shall curse his God then hee shall beare his sinne And he that blasphemeth the Name of Iehovah shall surely bee put to death all the congregation stoning shall stone him as well the stranger as the home-borne when he blasphemeth the Name shal be put to death And a man when he shall smite any soule of man shall surely be put to death And he that smiteth the soule of a beast shall recompense it soule for soule And a man when he shall give a blemish upon his neighbour as he hath done so shall it bee done unto him Breach for breach eye for eye tooth for tooth as hee hath given a blemish upon a man so shall iâ— be given upon him And he that smiteth a beast shall recompense it and he that smiteth a man shall be put-to-death One judgement shall yee have as well the stranger as the home-borne shal have it for I am Iehovah your God And Moses spake to the sonnes of Israel and they brought-forth him that had cursed out of the campe and stoned him with stones and the sons of Israel did as Iehovah commanded Moses Annotations THat they take or as the Greeke translateth and let them take unto thee that is take and give or bring unto thee see the like phrase in Gen. 15. 9. Exod. 25. 2. Num. 19. 2. As the former lawes in chap. 23. taught Israel the profession of their obedience to God in the holy times sanctified for his worship so these here taught them the like in respect of the holy things which concerned Gods service in his Sanctuarie olive or of the olive-tree the oile whereof figured the graces of Gods spirit and the beating of the oile signified the labours and afflictions of Gods people in preaching the word of grace This Law is here repeated from Exod. 27. 20. c. where it was before given see the annotations there the Lampe in Chaldee the Lampes meaning the seven lampes as is explained in Num. 8. 2. which are interpreted the seven Spirits of God Rev. 4. 5. that is the manifold graces of the Spirit now there are diversities of gracious gifts but one and the same Spirit 1 Cor. 12. 5. 11. so the seven lampes are here as one Lamp Likewise in Ex. 27. 20. and 〈◊〉 Sam. 3. 3. to ascend-up that is to burne as the Greeke and Chaldee expound it for the flame alwaies ascendeth continually this the Hebrewes expound from night to night as the continuall Burnt-offring which was not but from day to day Sol. â—archi on Lev. 24. And in Targ. Ionathan it is explained in the Sabbath day and in the working day This Law sheweth the ordinary duty of the Church to provide oile for the Lampe In times of distresse the Prophet saw a vision of two olivetrees on each side of the candlesticke emptying out of themselves golden oile through two golden pipes God teaching that the
of the spirituall seed of Christ promised to be that the Church shall say in her heart Who hath begotten me these Esai 49. 21. For by twelve Apostles and seventy disciples Christs kingdome began to be preached and that immortall seed of the word soone begat many ten thousands of Iewes Act. 21. 20. and many moe of the Gentiles even innumerable Reu. 7. 9. And here also we may observe that whereas the yeere before when all the tribes were first numbred from 20. yeeres old and upward their summe was 603550. men Exod. 30. 14. 38. 26. now in the second yeere when they are againe numbred and the tribe of Levi not reckoned with them there are found the same iust number of 603550. so there were so many young men of nineteene yeeres old as now supplied the want of the Levites put apart for the Lords service that Israel might sâ—e they should lose nothing by whatsoever was imployed in the seruice of God V. 49. Onely or But the tribe it is an exception which the Greeke translateth thus See the tribe of Levi thou shalt not muster to wit among the other Israelites but apart by themselves Num. 3. 15 c. V. 50. appoint or constitute give charge as bishops which hereof have their name Testimony that is the Tables of the Law kept in an Arke within the Tabernacle Exod. 31. 18. they shall be are according as God appointed their burdens Num. 4. 25. 31. 36. and to helpe them for some things six waggons were allowed them Num. 7. 7 8 9. round about the Tab. and next unto the Tabernacle betwixâ— the camps of Israel and it whereof see chap. 2. 3. V. 51. setteth forward being carried after the cloud when God removed it from place to place Num. 10. 11. 17. 21. the stranger any Israelite or other that is not of the tribe of Levi. So for the worke of the Priesthood both Israelites and Levites are counted strangers save the seed of Aaron only Num. 16. 40. put to death either by men or by the hand of God as was Vzzah for putting his hand to the Arke 1 Chron. 13. 10. So in Thargum Ionathan it is expounded he shall be killed with fire flaming out from before the Lord. V. 52. by his owne campe the Greeke transâ—ateth in his owne order which is described in chap. 2. by his owne standard in Greeke according to his owne regiment see Num. 2. 2. V. 53. no feruent wrath no punishment from God as was in Vzzahs case 1 Chron. 13. 〈◊〉 charge or the custodie the watch and ward and doe the workes appointed of God see Num. 3. 7. 8. c. and 18. 3. This debarring of the people from the worke of the sanctuarie and committing it to the Levites charge shewed the separation oâ— of all mankinde from God and their unworthinesse to come neere unto him or his holy things untill they be called and sanctified of God thereunto Which being not effected by the Law or rudiments thereof for the Mount where the L 〈…〉 was given might not be touched Heb. 12. 18 is now performed unto us by Christ who 〈…〉 shed us from our sinnes in his owne bloud and 〈◊〉 made us Kings and Priests unto God and his Father Revel 1. 5 6. so that we have libertie to exter 〈…〉 the Holiest by the bloud of Iesus Heb. 10. 19. CHAP. II. 1. The order of the Tribes pitching about the Tabernacle 3. On the East side Iudah Issachar and Zabulon 10. On the South side Reuben Simeon and Gad. 17. The Tabernacle in the midst of 〈◊〉 campe 18. On the West side Ephraim Man 〈…〉 and Benjamin 25. On the North side Dan A 〈…〉 and Naphtali ANd Iehovah spake unto Moses and unto Aaron saying The sonnes of Israel shall encamp every man by his standard with the ensignes according to the house of their fathers over against round about the Tent of the congregation shal theâ— encampe And they that encampe for most Eastward shal be the standard of the campe of Iudah according to their armies and the captaine of the sonnes of Iudah shal be Naasson the sonne of Aminadab And his armie and those that were mustered of them were seventy and foure thousand and six hundred And they that encampe next unto him shall be the tribe of Issachar and the captaine of the sonnes of Issachar shal be Nethaneel the sonne of Zuar And his armie and those that were mustered thereof were foure and fifty thousand and foure hundred The tribe of Zabulon and the Prince of the sonnes of Zabulon shal be Eliab the sonne of Helon And his armie and those that were mustered thereof were seven and fifty thousand and foure hundred All that were mustered of the campe of Iudah were an hundred thousand and eightie thousand and six thousand and foure hundred according to their armies they shall set forward first The standard of the campe of Reuben shal be Southward according to their armies and the captaine of the sonnes of Reuben shal be Elizur the sonne of Shedeur And his armie and those that were mustered thereof were six and fortie thousand and five hundred And they that encampe next unto him shal be the tribe of Simeon and the captaine of the sonnes of Simeon shal be Shelumiel the sonne of Zurishaddai And his armie and those that were mustered thereof were nine and fifty thousand and three hundred And the tribe of Gad and the captaine of the sonnes of Gad Eliasaph the sonne of Reguel And his armie and those that were mustered of them were five and fortie thousand and six hundred and fifty All that were mustered of the campe of Reuben were an hundred thousand and one and fifty thousand and foure hundred and fifty according to their armies and they shall set forward second And the Tent of the congregation shall set forward the campe of the Levites in the midst of the campes as they encampe so shall they set forward every man in his place according to their standards The standard of the campe of Ephraim according to their armies shal be Sea-ward and the captaine of the sonnes of Ephraim shal be Elishama the sonne of Ammihud And his armie and those that were mustered of them forty thousand and five hundred And next unto him shal be the tribe of Manasses and the captaine of the sonnes of Manasses shal be Gamaliel the sonne of Pedahzur And his armie and those that were mustered of them two and thirtie thousand and two hundred And the tribe of Benjamin and the captaine of the sonnes of Benjamin shal be Abidan the sonne of Gideoni And his armie and those that were mustered of them five and thirty thousand and foure hundred All that were mustered of the campe of Ephraim were an hundred thousand and eight thousand and an hundred according to their armies and they shall set forward third The standard of the campe of Dan shal be Northward according to their armies and the captaine of the sonnes
name calling the beloved Citie the Camp of the Saints Rev. 20. 9. as in 2 Chron. 31. 2. the Temple is called the Campes of the LORD also for the manner of situation the heavenly Ierusalem is fouresquare the length as large as the bredth Revel 21. 16. which forme was likewise shewed in vision to Ezekiel Ezek. 48. 20. and is the most firme and setled against all troubles And as here Gods sanctuarie is walled about with the twelve tribes of Israel so the new Ierusalem hath a wall with twelve gates and names written thereon of the twelve tribes of the sonnes of Israel and the wall hath twelve foundations and in them the names of the twelve Apostles of the Lambe Rev. 21. 12. 14. As here there were three tribes on every quarter so Ierusalem hath three gates on the East three on the North three on the South and three on the West Rev. 21. 13. Ezek. 48. 31. 34. As these twelve tribes the walls of Gods Tabernacle had their fathers names graven on twelve sundrie precious stones Exod. 28. so the foundations of the wall of the heavenly citie is of the like stones Rev. 21. 19 20. As here betweene the Sanctuary and the Tribes of Israel were foure companies of Levites to watch and ward the holy place so betweene Gods Throne and the foure and twentie Elders compassing it there are foure Liuing creatures full of eyes glorifying God night and day after whom the twentie foure Elders fall downe and worship God Revel a. 6. 10. Finally as into this campe of the Lord in the wildernesse no uncleane persons might enter but were shut out Num. 5. 2 3 4. so into the new Ierusalem there may in no wise enter any thing that defileth c. Rev. 21. 27. And the earthly Ierusalem called the holy Citie Mat. 4. 5. Luke 4. 9. was in the ages following when Israel dwelt in Canaan answerable in holinesse to this campe of Israel as the Hebrewes record saying As was the Campe in the wildernesse such was the Campe in Ierusalem From Ierusalem gates to the mountaine of the House of the Lord the campe of Israel From the Mountaine of the House to the gate of Nicanor which was the East gate of the Temple the campe of Levi. From thence and forward the campe of the Diuine Majestie answerable to the tapestrie-hangings of the Lords court that were in the wildernesse Thalmud Bab. in Zebachim ch 14. in Gemara See also the annotations on Exod. 40. 33. In the second Temple the East gate of the court was called the gate of Nicanor as the comment on the foresaid place of the Thalmud sheweth And Maimony in Misn. tom 3. in Beth habchirah ch 5. sect 5. saith of it thus Every of the gates was ten cubits broad and twentie cubits high and had doores covered with gold except the East gate which was covered with brasse like gold and that gate was called the high gate 2 Chron. 27. 3. and that was the gate of Nicanor V. 29. And the tribe in Greeke And they that campe next shall be the tribe of Naphtali See vers 7. Thus God adjoyned to every of the foure standards two tribes and those the next of bloud inferiour unto them for to maintaine order and nourish love and to afford mutuall helpe Our Saviour also ordained among his Apostles a kinde of combination and fraternitie as is to be seene by the rehearsall of their names in Mat. 10. 2 3 4. 1. Simon Peter and Andrew his brother 2. Iames or Iacob sonne of Zebedee and Iohn his brother 3. Philip and Bartholmew 4. Thomas and Matthew the Publican 5. Iames sonne of Alpheus and Lebbeus or Iudas his brother Luk. 6. 16. Iude v. 1. 6. Simon Kananites or the zealous and Iudas Iscariot And these did Christ send forth by two and two Marke 6. 7. to warre the warfare of his Gospell as 1 Tim. 1. 18 And when Iscariot lost his office Matthias was chosen in his place Act. 1. 26. Afterward there were added Paul and Barnabas Act. 13. 2. Vers. 32. These are those mustered in Greeke This is the muster or visitation the house that is as the Greeke saith the houses so in vers 34. 〈◊〉 600. thousand c. the summe that was mentioned before in Num. 1. 46. See the notes there V. 34. so they camped or pitched their tents The holy Ghost commendeth unto us the obedience of Israel as before in the making of the Sanctuarie Exod. 39. 42 43. so here in their orderly camping about and marching before and after it That as Order in all things is beautifull and delectable so especially in the Church and things pertaining to the service of God wherefore the Apostle joyed to behold the order of the Church in Colosse and the stedfastnesse of their faith in Christ wherein he exhorted them still to walke in him 〈◊〉 Coloss. 2. 5 6. And Balaam when hee beheld this Campe of Israel from the top of the Rockes did not onely admire the multitude of them and the presence of the Lord among them but said How goodly are thy Tents ô Iakob thy Tabernacles ô Israel As the vallies are they spred forth as gardens by the rivers side c. Num. 23. 9. 10. 21. and 24. 5 6. And Solomon describeth the church to be beautifull as Tirzah a pleasant place where the King of Israel dwelt 1 King 14. 17. comely as Ierusalem which was also beautifull for situation Psal. 48. 2. and compact together Psal. 122. 3. terrible as an armie with banners Song 6. 4. CHAP. III. 1. The sonnes of Aaron the Priests 5. The Levites are given to the Priests for the service of the Tabernacle 11. Instead of the first-borne of Israel 14. The Levites are numbred by their families 21. The families number and charge of the Gershonites 27. Of the Kohathites 33. Of the Merarites 38. The place and charge of Moses and Aaron 40. The first-borne of Israel are freed by the Levites 44. The overplus are redeemed ANd these are the generations of Aaron and Moses in the day that Iehovah spake with Moses in mount Sinai And these are the names of the sonnes of Aaron Nadab the first-borne and Abihu Eleazar and Ithamar These are the names of the sonnes of Aaron the Priests which were anointed whose hand he filled to minister in the Priests office And Nadab and Abihu died before Iehovah when they offered strange fire before Iehovah in the wildernesse of Sinai and they had no sonnes and Eleazar and Ithamar ministred in the Priests office in the sight of Aaron their father And Iehovah spake unto Moses saying Bring neere the tribe of Levi and present it before Aaron the Priest and they shall minister unto him And they shall keepe his charge and the charge of all the congregation before the Tent of the congregation to serve the service of the Tabernacle And they shall keepe all the instruments of the Tent of the congregation and the charge of the sonnes
their service Num. 4. 3. And also because there 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 inheritance given them among the sonnes of Israel Num. 26. 62. but the Lord was their inheritance Deut. 10. 8 9. Now to be numbred apart and not with others signified some speciall favour towards such and care over them as Num. 23. 9. Aaron Aaron the elder brother of Moses and 〈◊〉 Levites therefore their names are mentioned here V. 3. he filled that is consecrated or perfected 〈◊〉 the Greeke translateth See the annotations on Exâ—â— 29. 9. and Levit. 8. V. 4. dyed by a fire from the Lord Levit. 10. 1 2. This is mentioned againe in Num. 26. 61. 1 Chron. 24. 1 2. had no sonnes the Hebrewes as Chazkuni upon this place say if they had had sonnes those sonnes had beene before Eleazar and Ithamar for whosoever is fore-most in inheritance is foremost for honour or dignitie in the sight of Aaron or before the face that is whiles Aaron lived as before the face of Tharah Gen. 11. 38. is while Tharah lived before the Moone and Sunne Psal. 72. 5. 17. is whiles they continue to give light The Greeke translateth With Aaron Elsewhere it is said by the hand of Aaron 1 Chron. 24. 19. Of these two there were so many Priests in Davids dayes that he distributed them into 24. courses sixteene of Eleazar and eight of Ithamar 1 Chron. 24. 3. 4. The Hebrew Doctors say Moses divided the Priests into eight wards or courses foure of Eleazar and foure of Ithamar and so they were untill the Prophet Samuels dayes Then Samuel and David the King parted them into 24. courses And over every course or ward there was one chiefe Provost And they went up to Ierusalem to serve by course every weeke And every sabbath day they changed one course went out and the next after them came in c. Maimony tom 3. treat of the Instruments of the Sanctuarie chapt 4. sect 3. Compare 1 Chron. 9. 22. 25. 2 King 11. 5. 7. V. 6. present it or cause it to stand speaking of the tribe In Greeke present them V. 7. his charge Hebr. his custody or obseruation that is that which he commandeth them to obserue See this phrase in Lev. 18. 30. 〈…〉 of all the congregation the Greeke explaineth it of the sonnes of Israel as in v. 8. So 〈◊〉 2 Chron. 35. 3. serve the Lord your God and his people Israel It meaneth also such things as they were charged to keepe but the Levites now were taken in their stead 〈…〉 to serve the service in Greeke to worke or doe the workes of the Tabernacle which in Num. 8. 11. is said to serve the service of the Lord. After in the 8. verse the Greeke translateth according to all the workes of the Tabernacle The Hebrewes write thus The sâ—ed of Levi are all of them separated for the service of the Sanctuarie And it is commanded that the Levites be prepared and readie for the service of the Sanctuarie whether they be willing or not willing as in Num. 18. 23. And the Levite he shall serve the service of the Tent of the congregation And the sonne of Levi which will take upon him all the Levites commandements saving one thing they receive him not in till he take all upon him Maimony treat of the Instruments of the Sanct. chap. 3. sect 1. V. 9. are given are given that is as the Greeke here and Moses himselfe in Num. 18. 6. explaineth it are a gift given oâ— they are wholly given So the Ministers of the Gospell are called gifts Ephes. 4. 8. 11. 〈…〉 unto him for his helpe in the charge and worke of the Sanctuarie they ministring unto him and he and his sonnes ministring before the Tabernacle Num. 18. 2. 6. V. 11. shalt appoint or constitute set in office as Bishops or Overseers The Greeke explaineth it thou shalt constitute over the Tabernacle of Testimonie their Priests office for every thing of the Altar and within the veile Num. 18. 7. the stranger that is whosoeuer is not of Aarons seed as is explained in Num. 16. 40. for no man taketh the honour unto himselfe but he that is called of God as was Aaron Hebr. 5. 4. So Chazkuni here expoundeth stranger to be Israelite or Levite that commeth neere to minister And Maimony in Biath hamikdash chap. 9. sect 1. saith Who is the stranger Whosoever is not of the seed of Aaron the males And after God himselfe forbiddeth the Levites to come night he vessels of the Sanctuarie and the Altar on paine of death Numb 18. 3. put to death by the magistrate or by the hand of God as was Korah for presuming to doe the Priests office Numb 16. V. 12. every first-borne which before the Levites were taken in their stead did minister to the Lord as is noted on Exod. 24. 5. And upon what occasion God tooke the Levites instead of the first-borne is to be seene in Exod. 32. 26. 29. Deut. 33. 9. shall be mine to minister before me as the Chaldee expoundeth it V. 13. I smote in Chaldee I killed see Exod. 12. 29 30. The Lord having slaine all the first-borne of Egypt and spared the Israelites did therefore challenge for his owne and sanctifie to him-selfe all Israels first-borne Exod. 13. 2. but tooke the Levites and their cattle in stead of Israels first-borne men and cattle Num. 3. 45. and gave them as a gift to Aaron to minister unto him Who being in his Priesthood a type of Christ all these rites are in him fulfilled For unto Christ God gave children Hebr. 2. 13. and they are a congregation of first-borne written in heaven Hebr. 12. 23. being of Gods owne will begotten by the word of truth that they should be a kinde of first-fruits of his creatures Iam. 1. 18. to whom he also giveth the first-fruits of his Spirit Rom. 8. 23. These wait on and follow the Lambe Christ being bought from among men and first-fruits unto God and to the Lambe Rev. 14. 4. These were brought for an offering unto the Lord out of all nations and of them the Lord hath taken for Priests and for Levites Esai 66. 20 21. and Christ hath made us Kings and Priests unto God and his Father that we may serve him day and night in his Temple Rev. 1. 6. and 7. 15. V. 15. Muster or Number Hebr. Visit. This was done by Moses and Aaron v. 39. and by the Princes of the congregation Num. 4. 34. though here the commandement is directed unto Moses onely house in Greeke houses old Heb. sonne of a moneth Tho cause why the Levites were numbred from this age was for that they came in place of the first-borne of Israel whose redemption is appointed from a moneth old Num. 18. 15 16. And they were counted after the houses of their fathers not of their mothers for if a woman of Levi were maried to a man of Iudah or any other tribe her sonne was not a Levite The Hebrew canons say
Princes of the congregation the called of the assembly men of name And they gathered themselves together against Moses and against Aaron and said unto them Yee take too much upon you for all the congregation all of them are holy and Iehovah is among them and wherefore lift ye up your selves above the Church of Iehovah And Moses heard it and fell upon his face And hee spake unto Korah and unto all his congregation saying Even in the morning Iehovah will make knowne him that is his and who is holy and whom he will cause to come neere unto him even him whom he hath chosen hee will cause to come neere unto him This doe yee take unto you censers Korah and all his congregation And put ye fire in them and put incense on them before Iehovah to morrow and it shall be that the man whom Iehovah doth choose he shall be holy ye take too much upon you ye sons of Levi. And Moses said unto Korah Heare I pray you ye sons of Levi Is it a small thing for you that the God of Israel hath separated you from the congregation of Israel to bring you neere unto him to serve the service of the Tabernacle of Iehovah and to stand before the congregation to minister unto them And he hath brought thee neere and all thy brethren the sonnes of Levi with thee and seeke yee the Priesthood also For which cause thou and all thy congregation are gathered together against Iehovah and Aaron what is he that ye murmure against him And Moses sent to call Dathan and Abiram the sons of Eliab and they said We will not come up Is it a smal thing that thou hast brought us up out of the land that floweth with milke and honey to kill us in the wildernesse that thou makest thy selfe a Prince over us even making thy selfe a Prince Moreover thou hast not brought us into a land that floweth with milke honey givē unto vs an inheritāce of field vineyard wilt thou dig out the eies of these men we will not comeup And Moses was very wroth and he said unto Iehovah Respect not thou their offering I have not taken one asse from them neither have I hurt one of them And Moses said unto Korah Thou and all thy congregation be yee before Iehovah thou and they and Aaron to morrow And take yee every man his censer and put incense on them and bring ye neere before Iehovah every man his censer two hundred and fiftie censers and thou and Aaron each man his censer And they tooke every man his censer and put fire on them and put incense on them and they stood at the doore of the Tent of the congregation and Moses and Aaron And Korah gathered against them all the congregation unto the doore of the Tent of the congregation and the glory of Iehovah appeared unto all the congregation And Iehovah spake unto Moses and unto Aaron saying Separate your selves from among this congregation and I will consume them as in a moment And they fell upon their faces and said O God the God of the spirits of all flesh shall one man sin and wilt thou be fervently wroth with all the congregation And Iehovah spake unto Moses saying Speake unto the congregation saying Get you up from about the Tabernacle of Korah Dathan and Abiram And Moses rose up and went unto Dathan and Abiram and the Elders of Israel went after him And he spake unto the congregation saying Depart I pray you from the tents of these wicked men and touch not any thing that is theirs lest ye be consumed in all their sinnes And they went up from the Tabernacle of Korah Dathan and Abiram on every side and Dathan and Abiram came out and stood in the doore of their Tents and their wives and their sonnes and their little ones And Moses said Hereby ye shall know that Iehovah hath sent me to doe all these workes for I doe them not of mine owne heart If these men die as all men die and they be visited after the visitation of all men Iehovah hath not sent me But if Iehovah create a new thing and the earth open her mouth and swallow up them and all that appertaine unto them and they goe downe alive unto hell then ye shall know that these men have provoked Iehovah And it was as he had made an end of speaking all these words that the ground clave asunder which was under them And the earth opened her mouth and swallowed up them and their houses and all the men that appertained unto Korah and all their substance And they and all that appertained unto them went downe alive unto hell and the earth closed upon them and they perished from among the Church And all Israel that were round about them fled at the voice of them for they said Lest the earth swallow up us And a fire came forth from Iehovah and devoured the two hundred and fiftie men that offered incense And Iehovah spake unto Moses saying Speake unto Eleazar the sonne of Aaron the Priest that he take up the censers out of the burning and scatter thou the fire yonder for they are hallowed The censers of these sinners against their owne soules and let them make them broad plates for a covering of the Altar for they offered them before Iehovah and they are hallowed and they shall be for a signe unto the sonnes of Israel And Eleazar the Priest tooke the brazen censers which they that were burnt had offered and they were made broad plates for a covering of the Altar A memoriall unto the sonnes of Israel that not any stranger which is not of the seed of Aaron come neere to offer incense before Iehovah that he be not as Korah and as his congregation as Iehovah spake by the hand of Moses unto him And on the morrow all the congregation of the sonnes of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron saying you have killed the people of Iehovah And it was when the congregation was gathered against Moses and against Aaron that they looked towards the Tent of the congregation and behold the cloud covered it and the glory of Iehovah appeared And Moses and Aaron came before the Tent of the congregation And Iehovah spake unto Moses saying Get you up frō among this congregation I will consume them as in a moment and they fell upon their faces And Moses said unto Aaron Take the censer and put fire thereon from off the Altar and put on incense and goe quickly unto the congregation and make atonement for them for fervent wrath is gone out from before Iehovah the plague is begun And Aaron tooke as Moses had spoken and ranne into the midst of the Church and behold the plague was begun among the people and he put on incense and made atonement for the people And he stood betweene the dead and the living and the plague was stayed And they that died in the plague were
as the Apostle calleth the spirits of just men made perfect Heb. 12. 23. the spirits of the Fathers which were returned to God who gave them as Eccles. 12. 7. shall one man sinne in Greeke if one man hath sinned as if they should say All have not sinned why wilt thou be wroth with all Vpon this intercession the Lord spareth the people that would depart from the rebells verse 24. Verse 24. the tabernacle this seemeth to bee put for tabernacles or dwellings the Greeke translateth it the congregation so in vers 27. where the Greeke also keepeth the word Tabernacle which in vers 26. is called Tents Vers. 25. the elders the Greeke addeth all the elders went after him in Greeke went with him that is accompanied him Verse 26. these wicked men in Greeke these hard men the originall word properly signifieth restlesse turbulent and such as for their sinnes are worthy to be condemned see the notes on Psal. 1. 1. touch not any thing because as they themselves so all things of theirs were uncleane and execrable and therefore to perish with them vers 32. Verse 27. came out and stood Heb. came out standing which the Greeke explaineth came out and stood and these two phrases are one as where it is said that Iesus blessed and breaking gave to the disciples Mat. 14. 19. the other Evangelists explaine it he blessed and brake and gave Luke 9. 16. Mark 6. 41. so Saying unto them Matth. 21. 2. is And saith unto them Mark 11. 2. This their standing up argueth their boldnesse in so bad a cause for standing up is a gesture denoting courage Iob 33. 5. and 41. 10. 1 Sam. 17. 8. 16. Thus Pride went before destruction and an haughty spirit before a fall as Prov. 16. 18. Verse 28. all these workes both the former in appointing Aaron to the Priest-hood and the Levites in stead of the first-borne and these latter in appointing Korah and his company to bring their censers with incense c. of mine owne heart which the Chaldee explaineth of mine owne will the Greeke of my selfe For things devised of ones owne heart are noted for evill 1 King 12. 33. Ezek. 13. 17. Vers. 29. as all men die their ordinarie naturall death which the Greeke translateth after the death of all men Verse 30. create a new thing Hebr. create a creature that is doe a new and wonderfull worke to kill them with such a death as never man died before them Of this word create see the notes on Gen. 1. 1. it is applied here to a strange and extraordinarie worke of judgment as in Esai 45. 7. God is said to create evill and in Exod. 34. 10. to create marvels and in Esai 48. 6. 7. new and â—idden things God would create And as evill so good things which are new and strange are said to be created of God Esa. 65. 18. alive living haile and sound not consumed with sicknesse as ordinarily men are before death and buriall unto hell into the grave or state of death see the notes on Gen. 37. 35. To this iudgement the Prophet hath reference praying against his enemies Lâ—t them goe downe alive to hell Psal. 55. 16. Verse 32. swallowed up them to wit Dathan and Abiram as in Psal. 106. 17. The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan and covered over the congregation of Abiram So David prayed against his enemies swallow them up o Lord Psal. 55. 10. their houses that is housholds as the Chaldee expoundeth it the men of their houses appertained unto Korah The Greeke translateth and all the men that were with Kore and the Chaldee the men that pertained to Korah But the sonnes of Korah are to be excepted for they either not partaking with or forsaking their Fathers sinne died not see Num. 26. 21. And whereas mention was made of On the sonne of Reuben in verse 1. but not here nor any where of his death neither in verse 12. of his calling or refusall to come up it is to be thought that either he repented upon Moses reproofe and so was spared from destruction or if not so he is implied among the rest though not named in particular their substance or their goods which the Greeke translateth their cattell and so the originall word implieth as in 1 Chron. 27. 31. 2 Chron. 31. 3. and 35. 7. See the notes on Gen. 12. 5. And not their cattell onely but all their other goods even their tents were swallowed into the earth Deut. 11. 6. Here wee may behold the truth of that Proverbe Riches profit not in the day of wrath but iustice delivereth from death Prov. 11. 4. Vers. 33. closed upon them or covered over them so there was no hope left for their recoverie Against such judgement David prayeth Let not the gulse swallow me neither let the pit shut her mouth upon me Psal. 69. 16. Vers. 34. at the voice of them at their crie or noise which they made when they perished So in Ier. 49. 21. At the voice or noise of their fall the earth is moved c. and I made the nations to shake at the noise of his fall Ezek. 31. 16. Lest the earth swallow us an unperfect speech through feare such as is often used in dangers as in Psal. 38. 17. Rom. 11. 21. Thus the present judgement terrified them and When the scorner is punished the simple is made wise Prov. 21. 11. Vers. 35. devoured or did eat the 250. men They sinned in burning incense which belonged to the Priests onely and with burning they were punished like the judgement on Aarons sonnes that transgressed also therein Levit. 10. 1 2. Of this David singeth A fire burned in their congregation a flame burnt up the wicked Psal. 106. 18. Vers. 37. unto Eleazar Chazkuni here observeth that God would not have Aaron to bee defiled by going among the dead because he was one of them that offered vers 17. out of the burning that is as the Greeke well explaineth it from among those that are burnt So in Num. 21. 1. captivitie is for a company of captives and in 2 King 24. 14. Povertie for a company of poore people and many the like the fire which is in the censers vers 7. The Greeke saith the strange fire as Lev. 10. 1. yonder in Greeke there which Sol. Iarchi expoundeth on the earth out of the censers others out of the court of the Sanctuarie By casting away the fire the Lord signifieth the rejecting of their service as profane So in Rev. 8. 5. the Angell tooke the censer and filled it with fire of the Altar and cast it into the earth and there were voices and thunderings c. Which being compared with vers 3 4. seemeth to teach likewise a rejecting of the service of Antichristians which abuse and despise Christs mediation and therefore it is turned unto them to judgement Vers. 38. sinners against their soules Sinners are here often used for notorious wicked persons as Destroy the sinners
be utterly unpunished ye shall not be unpunished 〈◊〉 25. 29. He speaketh this against the Midianites rather than against the Moabites whom he had forbidden Israel to vex or distresse Deut. 2. 9. because they were chiefe in the mischiefe For though Balaam gave the counsell to the king of Moab Rev. 2. 14. and the Moabitish women were prostitute also unto whoredome Num. 25. 1. yet Balak at first did not much regard that counsell but turned Bâ—laam away with shame Num. 24. 11 25. but the Midianites retained him and amongst them hee was slaine Num. 31. 8. And Cezbi a kings daughter of Midian was a principall instrument of evill unto Israel as God sheweth in vers 18. therefore the Midianites were first in the punishment smite ye them that is as the Chaldee expoundeth it kill ye them Vers. 18. For they vox you or disiresse you not with warre but with wiles and deceit So God saith of Babylon Reward her even as shee hath rewarded you Rev. 18. 6. The reward of unrighteous workes is righteous judgement their wiles or their guiles deceits crafts beguiled you or dealt wilily and craftily with you as the Egyptians when they thought to deale wisely for the suppressing of Israel Exod. 1. 10. are said to deale craftily Psal. 105. 25. and Iosephs brethren when they craftily conspired his death Gen. 37. 18. By this it appeareth that the amitie of the Midianites was but feigned and that they plotted the destruction of Israel matter Hebr. word of Peor the idolatrie with Baal-Peor w ch Israel was drawne unto vers 2 3. So the matter or word of Cozhi is meant the fornication with her vers 6. for Peors sake Hebr. for the word of Peor that is which plague came on Israel for Peors sake or cause CHAP. XXVI 1 The summe of all the men of Israel from twentie yeares old and upward is taken in the plaines of Moab 5. The families and numbers of Reuben 12 Simeon 15 Gad. 19 Iudah 23 Issachar 26 Zabulon 29 Manasseh 35 Ephraim 38 Benjamin 42 Dan. 44 Aser 48 Nathtali 51 The summe of them all 52 The Law of dividing among them the inheritance of the land 57 The families and number of the Levites 62 The cause why they were not numbred among the Israeliâ—es 63 None were left of them which were numbred at Sinai but Caleh and Iosua ANd it was after the plague that Iehovah said unto Moses and unto Eleazar the sonne of Aaron the Priest saying Take ye the summe of all the congregation of the sonnes of Israel from twentie yeares old and upward according to the house of their fathers every one that goeth forth with the armie in Israel And Moses and Eleazar the Priest spake with them in the plains of Moab by Iordan neere Iericho saying From twentie yeares old and upward as Iehovah commanded Moses and the sonnes of Israel which went forth out of the land of Egypt Reuben the first-borne of Israel the sons of Reuben of Enoch the familie of the Enochites of Phallu the familie of the Phalluites Of Hezron the familie of the Hezronites of Carmi the familie of the Carmites These are the families of the Reubenites and they that were mustered of them were three and fortie thousand and seven hundred and thirtie And the sonnes of Phallu Eliab And the sonnes of Eliab Nemuel and Dathan and Abiram this is that Dathan and Abiram the called of the congregation who strove against Moses against Aaron in the congregation of Korah when they strove against Iehovah And the earth opened her mouth and swallowed up them and Korah when the congregation died when the fire devoured two hundred and fiftie men and they were for a signe But the sonnes of Korah died not The sonnes of Simeon according to their families Of Nemuel the familie of the Nemuelites of Iamin the familie of the Iaminites of Iachin the familie of the Iachinites Of Zerah â—he familie of the Zarhites of Saul the familie of the Saulites These are the families of the Simeonites two and twentie thousand and two hundred The sonnes of Gad according to their families of Zephon the familie of the Zephonites of Haggi the familie of the Haggites of Suni the familie of the Sunites Of Ozni the familie of the Oznites Of Eri the familie of the Erites Of Arod the familie of the Arodites of Areli the familie of the Arelites These are the families of the sonnes of Gad according to those that were mustered of them fortie thousand and five hundred The sonnes of Iudah were Er and Onan and Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan And the sonnes of Iudah according to their families were of Selah the familie of the Selanites of Pharez the familie of the Pharzites of Zarah the familie of the Zarhites And the sonnes of Pharez were of Hezron the familie of the Hezronites of Hamul the familie of the Hamulites These are the families of Iudah according to those that were mustered of them seventie and six thousand and five hundred The sonnes of Issachar according to their families of Thola the familie of the Tholaites of Phuva the familie of the Phunites Of Iashub the familie of the Iashubites of Simron the familie of the Simronites These are the families of Issachar according to those that were mustered of them sixtie and foure thousand and three hundred The sonnes of Zabulon according to their families of Sered the familie of the Sardites of Elon the familie of the Elonites of Iahleel the familie of the Iahleelites These are the families of the Zabulonites according to those that were mustered of them sixtie thousand and five hundred The sons of Ioseph according to their families were Man esses and Ephraim The sons of Manasses of Machir the family of the Machirites and Machir begat Gilead of Gilead the familie of the Gileadites These are the sons of Gilead of Ieezer the familie of the Ieezerites of Helek the familie of the Helekites And of Asriel the familie of the Asrielites and of Shechem the familie of the Shechemites And of Shemida the familie of the Shemidaites and of Hepher the familie of the Hepherites And Zelophehad the sonne of Hepher had no sonnes but daughters and the names of the daughters of Zelophehad were Machlah and Noah Hoglah Milcah and Tirzah These are the families of Manasses and those that were mustered of them two and fiftie thousand and seven hundred These are the sonnes of Ephraim according to their families of Shuthelah the familie of the Shuthalhites of Becher the familie of the Bachrites of Tahan the familie of the Tahanites And these are the sonnes of Shuthelah of Eran the familie of the Eranites These are the families of the sonnes of Ephraim according to those that were mustered of them two and thirtie thousand and five hundred these are the sonnes of Ioseph according to their families The sonnes of Benjamin according to their families of Bela the familie of the Belaites of Ashbel the
familie of the Ashbelites of Ahiram the familie of the Ahiramites Of Shephupham the familie of the Shuphamites of Hupham the familie of the Huphamites And the sonnes of Bela were Ard and Naaman the familie of the Ardites of Naaman the familie of the Naamites These are the sonnes of Benjamin according to their families and those that were mustered of them five and fortie thousand and six hundred These are the sonnes of Dan according to their families of Shuham the familie of the Shuhamites these are the families of Dan according to their families All the families of the Shuhamites according to those that were mustered of them sixty and foure thousand and foure hundred The sonnes of Aser according to their families of Iimnah the familie of the Iimnaites of Iisvi the familie of the Iisvites of Beriah the familie of the Beriites Of the sonnes of Beriah of Cheber the familie of the Chebrites of Malchiel the familie of the Malchielites And the name of the daughter of Aser was Serah These are the families of the sonnes of Aser according to those that were mustered of them three and fiftie thousand and foure hundred The sonnes of Naphtali according to their families of Iachzeel the familie of the Iachzeelites of Guni the familie of the Gunites Of Iezer the familie of the Iizrites of Sillem the familie of the Sillemites These are the families of Naphtali according to their families and they that were mustered of them five and fortie thousand and foure hundred These were the mustered of the sonnes of Israel six hundred thousand and a thousand seven hundred and thirtie And Iehovah spake unto Moses saying Vnto these the land shall be divided for an inheritance according to the number of names To the many thou shalt give them the more inheritance and to the few thou shalt give them the lesse inheritance to every man according to those that were mustered of him shall his inheritance be given Notwithstanding the land shall be divided by lot according to the names of the tribes of their fathers they shall inherit According to the lot shall the inheritance thereof be divided betweene many and few And these are they that were mustered of the Levites according to their families of Gershon the familie of the Gershonites of Kohath the familie of the Kohathites of Merari the familie of the Merarites These are the families of the Levites the familie of the Libnites the familie of the Hebronites the familie of the Mahlites the familie of the Mushites the familie of the Korachites and Kohath begat Amram And the name of Amrams wife was Iochebed the daughter of Levi whom she bare to Levi in Egypt and she bare unto Amram Aaron and Moses and Mary their sister And unto Aaron was borne Nadab and Abihu Eleazar and Ithamar And Nadab and Abihu died when they offered strange fire before Iehovah And those that were mustered of them were three and twentie thousand all males from a moneth old and upward for they were not mustered among the sonnes of Israel because there was no inheritance given to them among the sonnes of Israel These are they that were mustered by Moses and Eleazar the Priest who mustered the sonnes of Israel in the plaines of Moab by Iordan neere Iericho And among these there was not a man of those that were mustered by Moses and Aaron the Priest who mustered the sonnes of Israel in the wildernesse of Sinai For Iehovah had said of them Dying they shall die in the wildernesse and there was not left a man of them save Caleb the sonne of Iephunneh and Ioshua the sonne of Nun. Annotations AFter the plague after the death of the 24 thousand that perished for the sinne of Peor Num. 25. 9. the Lord commandeth the people to be numbred which should have inheritance in his land to signifie his love and care of those that cleaved unto him Deut. 4. 3 4. The Hebrewes explaine it by the similitude of a shepherd who when wolves have gotten among his flocke and wâ—rried some of them he counteth them to know the number of those that are left Againe As when they came out of Egypt and were delivered to Moses they were delivered him by tale Exod. 38. 26. so now when Moses was ready to die and to deliver his flock again he delivered them by tale Sol. Iarchi on Num. 26. Eleazar who now was high Priest after the death of Aaron his father who had before numbred them with Moses Num. 1. 3. And this Eleazar was he who after with Iosua divided the land of Canaan to this people Ios. 14. 1. c. Vers. 2. the summe Hebr. the head which the Chaldee expoundeth the count or summâ— see Exod. 30. 12. This was the third time that Israel was numbred for to fight the Lords battels againsâ— the Canaanites and to receive their land for an inheritance See the Annotations on Num. 1. 2. 20 yeares old Hebr. sonne of twentie yeare see Num. 1. 3. house that is as the Greeke explaineth it houses of their fathers Iarchi saith they were reckoned by the tribe of the father and not after the mother So in Num. 1. 2. goeth forth with the armie able to goe out to warre the warfare of the Lord see the notes on Num. 1. 3. Vers. 3. spake with them in Chaldee spake and said to number them but Targum Ionathan addeth spake with the Princes and said to number them So it accordeth with Num. 1. 4. plaines or champion countrey of Moab see Num. 22. 1. Vers. 4. From 20 yeares old Hebr. from a sonne of 20 yeares as vers 2. and here is to be understood the people are to be numbred or the like Vers. 5. the first-borne Reuben for this cause is here first numbred as also in Num. 1. 5 20. though he lost his dignity by his sinne 1 Chron. 5. 1. and was put downe to the second quarter as they encamped about the Sanctuarie and marched towards Canaan Num. 2. 10. 16. Enoch in Hebr. Chanoch see Gen. 5. 18. and 46. 9. of the Enochites Hebr. of the Enochite or Chanochite the singular number put for the plurall so after thorowout this chapter See the annotations on Gen. 10. 16. And here Reuben hath foure families according to Gen. 46. 9. and 1 Chron. 5. 3. Vers. 7. mustered or numbred Hebr. visited See the notes on Num. 1. 3. 43 thousand c. at the former muster they were 46 thousand and five hundred Num. 1. 21. so they increased not but decreased whiles they travelled in the wildernesse Vers. 9. the called that is renowned famous see Num. 1. 16. and 16. 1 2. c. strove in Greeke made insurrection in Chaldee gathered themselves together This mutinie stirred by the chiefe of the tribe seemeth to be one cause of their decrease by the hand of God against them Vers. 10. and Korah that is the men and goods that pertained unto Korah as Num. 16 32. the congregation died in Greeke his congregation meaning
enter into Canaan that God would goe before them and destroy their enemies 〈◊〉 not for their righteousnesse but for the heathens wickednesse and for his owne oath to Abraham 6 Because Israel was a stiffe-necked people that had often rebelled against God in the wildernesse as 8 at Horeb where they made a molten Calfe whiles Moseswas on the mount to receive the tables of the Coveuant 13 for which God would have destroyed them but that Moses intreated for them and abolished their idolatry 22. How Israel sinned at Taberab Massah Kibroth hattaavah 23 and at Kades barnea where they resused to take possâ—ssion of the Land 25 Moses his fasting and praser for the people HEare O Israel thou art passing over Londan this day to goe in to possesse Nations greater and mightier than throu Cities great and fenced up to the Heavens A people great and tall the sonnes of the Anakims whom thou hast knowen and thou hast heard who can stand before the sonnes of Anak And thou shalt know this day that Iehovah thy God is he that passeth over before thee a consuming fire he will destroy them and hee will bring them downe before thy face and thou shalt drive them out and dessroy them suddenly as Iehovah hath spoke unto thee Say not in thine heart when Iehovah thy God hath cast them out from before thy face saying For my justice Iehovah hath brought me in to possesse this land but for the wickednesse of these nations Iehovah doth drive them out from thy face Nor for thy justice or for the righteousnesse of thine heart doest thou goe in to possesse their land but for the wickednesse of these nations Iehovah thy God doth drive them out from thy face and for to stablish the word which Iehovah sware unto thy fathers to Abraham to Isaak and to Iakob And thou shalt know that not for thy justice doth Iehovah thy God give thee this good land to possesse it for thou art a stiffe-necked people Remember forget not how thou provoledst to wrath Iehovah thy God in the wildrnesse from the day that thou didst depart out of the land of Egypt untill ye came unto this place ye have been rebellious against Iehovah And in Horeb yee provoked Iehovah to wrath and Iehovah was angry with you to have destroyed you When I was gone up into the mount to receive the tables of stone the tables of the Covenant which Iehovah stroke with you and I abode in the mount fortie dayes and fortie nights I did neither eat bread not drinke water And Iehovah gave unto me the two tables of stone written with the finger of God and on them according to all the words which Iehovah spake with you in the mount out of the midst of fire in the day of the Assembly And it was at the end of forty daies and forty nights Iehovah gave unto me the two tables of stone the tables of the Covenant And Iehovah said unto me Arise goe downe quickly from hence for thy people which thou hast brought forth out of Egypt have corrupted themselves they have quickly turned aside our of the way which I commanded them they have made them a molten calfe And Iehovah said unto me saying I have seene 〈◊〉 people and behold it is a stiffe-necked people Let me alone that I may destroy them and blot out their name from under the heavens and I will make of thee a nation mighter and greater than they And I tur 〈◊〉 mee and came downe from the mount and the mount burned with fire and the two tables of the Covenant were in my two hands And I saw and behold yee had sinned against Iehovah your God yee had made you 〈…〉 n calfe yee had turned aside quickly 〈◊〉 the way which Iehovah had comman 〈…〉 you And I tooke the two tables and 〈◊〉 them out of my two hands and brake them before your eyes And I fell downe before Iehovah as at the first fortie daies and 〈◊〉 nights I did neither eat bread nor 〈◊〉 water because of all your sinne which yee had sinned in doing evill in the eyes of Iehovah to provoke him to anger For I was afraid because of the anger and hot displeasure where with Iehovah was wroth against you to destroy you but Iehovah hear 〈…〉 unto me at that time also And Ieho 〈…〉 very angry with Aaron to have destroyed him and I prayed for Aaron also in the same time And your sinne the Calfe which yee had made I tooke and burned it with fire and stamped it grinding it well untill it was made small as dust and I cast the dust thereof into the brooke that descended out of the mount And at Taberah and at Massah and at Kibroth-hataavah yee provoked Iehovah to wrath And when Iehovah sent you from Kadesh-barnea saying Goe up and possesse the land which I have given unto you then yee rebelled against the mouth of Iehovah your God and yee beleeved him not neither hearkened unto his voice You have beene rebellious against Iehovah from the day that I knew you And I fell downe before Iehovah fortie daies and fortie nights as I fell downe because Iehovah had said for to destroy you And I prayed unto Iehovah and said O Lord Iehovah destroy not thy people and thine inheritance which thou hast redeemed through thy greatnesse which thou hast brought forth out of Egypt with a strong hand Remember thy servants Abraham Isaak and Iaakob looke not unto the hardnesse of this people nor to their wickednesse nor to their sinne Lest the land from whence thou hast brought us out doe say Because Iehovah was not able to bring them into the land which he spake unto them and because he hated them he hath brought them out to slay them in the wildernesse Yet they are thy people and thine inheritance which thou broughtest out by thy great power and by thy stretched out arme Annotations IOrdan Hebr. Iarden a river thorow which Israel was to passe into the land Deut. 1. 1. See Num. 34. 12. this day that is at this time very shortly Day is often used for time as 2 Cor. 6. 2. An boure is likewise so used for time as the last houre 1 Iohn 2. 18. So in that houre Luke 10. 21. 16. At that time Matth. 11. 25. possesse or inherit which when it is spoken of nations signifieth dominion over them Lev. 25. 45 46. Here it may be meant also of the lands or countries of those nations as they are said to possesse Gad which dwelt in his cities Ier. 49. 1. Vers. 2. Anakims whom the Chaldee calleth Giants They were named of one Anak of whom see Numb 13. 23. and so the Greeke here saith sonnes of Enak hast heard to wit men say A common report of others and of the Israelites themselves Numb 13. 29 34. Vers. 3. he that passeth Against feare and distrust such as had affected them before Numb 14. 1 2 3 c. hee opposeth the presence and power
is faire and commendable among the unfruitfull trees and all the world knoweth it so the Lord of the world was faire and commendable among the Angels when he was revealed upon Mount Sinai at the time that hee gave the Law unto his people at that time I desired to sit in the shadow of his Divine majesty and the words of his Law were sweet to my palate and the reward of his precepts is reserved for me in the world that is to come Vers. 4. the house of wine that is either the wine celler the place where wine is kept or rather the banquetting house where wine is drunke For cellars are called the treasuries or store-houses of wine in 1 Chron. 27. 27. Wine besides that it slaketh thrist cheareth also the heart of man Psal. 104. 15. causeth him to forget his sorrow and misery Prov. 31. 6 7. comforteth the sicke by cherishing and augmenting the vitall spirits By this the Church signifieth encrease of grace from Christ as the fruit of the vine excelleth the fruit of the apple tree and is more comfortable unto the heart And as her troubles and tentations were increased so was his grace towards her for spirituall consolations for as the sufferings of Christ abound in us so our consolation also aboundeth by Christ 2 Cor. 1. 5. This house of wine is like that in Prov. 9. 1. 5. where wisedome having builded her house c. inviteth the simple to come and eate of her bread and drinke of the wine which she hath mingled Of the Hebrewes Iarchi expoundeth this wine house to be the Tabernacle of the congregration where the interpretation explanation of the Law is given answerable to which now is the assembly of the Saints though it may also be understood of Gods booke or Scripture the true wine-celler that affordeth spirituall comforts his banner or his standard a flag or ensigne spred abroad a warlike signe as in ch 6. 4. 10. the Church is said to bee terrible as an army with banners And the banner lifted up is a signe of fighting with ioy and victory as in Psal. 20. 6. We will shout-joyfully in thy salvation and in the name of our God we will set up the banner So Christs banner over her signified his defence and the victory which he giveth over all her enemies Sin Satan and the world also the signe that as all souldiers doe camp under their owne standards Num. 2. 2. so shee under the Gospell the ensigne of Christs love towards her love that wherewith Christ hath loved us 1 Iohn 4. 10. wherefore some reade it thus his standard was love toward me By love the Church is redeemed Ephes. 5. 25 by it everlasting consolation is given us and good hope through grace 2 Thess. 2. 16. And hope maketh not ashamed because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the holy Ghost which is given unto us Romanes 5. 5. Vers. 5. Stay or Sustaine Strengthen Uphold ye me The Church in her soule sicknesse speaketh to her friends the Ministers of Christ and other Christians that they with the comfortable doctrines and promises of the Gospell applyed unto her conscience would stay and uphold her ready to fall as into a swowne through trouble of minde because of her owne infirmities and want of feeling of Christs grace and blessing Thus in figure when Isaak had blessed Iakob he saith with corne and wine I have sustained him Gen. 27. 37. Spiritually we are sustained and strengthned by the words and promises of Christ which comfort the heart quicken the spirit and strengthen faith when it is weake as it is said Be ye also patient stablish or strengthen your hearts for the comming of the Lord draweth nigh Iam. 5. 8. and I long to see you that I may impart unto you some spirituall gift to the end you may be established Rom. 1. 11. And example may be seene in Iudah when Ezekias spake unto their heart and said Bee strong and couragious c. for there be moe with us then with him with him is an arme of flesh but with us is Iehovah our God to helpe us and to fight our battels And the people stayed or rested themselves upon the words of Ezekias King of Iudah 2 Chron. 32. 6. 7. 8. Likewise in the Apostles who preaching the Gospell confirmed or stablished the soules of the Disciples Acts 14. 21. 22. and 18. 23. with flagons to weer of wine which at banquets was wont to bee distributed by flagons When David had brought the Arke of God into his place and had offred burnt-offrings and peace-offrings and blessed the people he dealt to every 〈…〉 of Israel both man and woman to every one a loafe of 〈◊〉 and a good peace of flesh and a flagon 1 Chr. 〈…〉 2. 3 meaning a flagons or pot of wine as flagons of grapes that is of wine made of grapes are mentioned in Hos. 3. 1. So here with flagons of the 〈◊〉 of grace and consolation which Gods people have distributed among them in the spirituall banquet of the Gospell doth the Church desire to be sustained Flagon are named for the wine in them as the cup for the wine therein Luk. 22. 20. The Hebrewes after their wonted manner apply this to the doctrine of the Law as the Chaldee paraphrast here saith Receive ye ô Moses and Aaron the voice of the words of the Lord out of the midst of the fire and bring me into the house of doctrine and sustaine me with the words of the Law wherewith the world is delighted But it is the Law which causeth the sicknes of the soule as the Apostle sheweth in Rom. 7. and the Gospell of Christ healeth it Luke 4. 18. strow me a bed or spread mee make me a couch boulster me up The originall Raphad signifieth properly to spread abroad as a bed to lye on Iob 17. 13. and so it is translated by the Greeke Stoibasate which is to strow a bed as they were wont with hearbes or to stuffe and boulfter up Thus it is of like meaning with the former word for they used beds and couches at banquets Amos 6. 4. Esth. 1. 5. 6. or it further signifieth her falling downe as into a swowne and as one not able to stand is to lye down on her couch which she desireth may bee made and boulstred with the apples the comfortable doctrines and fruits of Christ forementioned in verse 3. which the Chaldee explaineth the interpretation of the holy words which are sweet like the apples of the garden of Eden sicke of love in languishing with desire to enjoy the comforts of my beloved The Greek translateth it wounded of love The originall word signifieth also weaknesse as in Iudg. 16. 7. 11. This speech implieth a want of feeling and enioying the presence and comforts of Christ as by her after speech is manifest when she saith I adjure you ô daughters of Ierusalem if ye finde my beloved that ye tell him that
countrey a place of corne Vines figtrees Pome granat-trees c. as Ioel 11. 12. in the villages or by the Cypresse trees for the Hebrew Cepharim may signifie both but the Greeke also interpreteth it villages and such country villages are distinguished from fenced cities 1 Sam. 6. 18. 1 Chron. 27. 25. The Spouse here desireth of Christ that they may goe together into the field and villages to looke unto their husbandry how it prospered and whether the trees there planted did flourish and fructifie as the next words manifest Hereby their desire and care is signfied for the encrease and propagation of the gospell abroad in the world for the field in the parable is the world Matth. 13. 38. And as Christ himselfe in the dayes of his flesh went about all the cities and villages preaching the gospell Matt. 9. 35. Mark 6. 6. and his disciples went abroad to teach all nations Matt. 28. 19. so afterward both hee in spirit walked among the golden Candlestickes of his Churches looking to their wayes Revel 2. and 3. and his Apostles went againe to visit their brethren in every City where they had preached the word of the Lord and to see how they did Act. 15. 36. Such a cate is here intimated that the Lords field might bee visited where hee had like a wise husband man prepared and fitted his worke Prov. 24. 27. Verse 12. Let us get up early or Let us rise betimes in the morning another act of diligence and care Psal. 127. 2. such as God performed to Israel of old when hee rose up early and sent his Prophets unto them because hee had compassion on them and the Prophets rose-early and spake unto them 2 Chron. 36. 15. Ierem. 25. 3. 4. to the vineyards that is the Churches or places where the Gospell had beene planted so the house of Israel was the Lords Vineyard Esay 5. 7. The Chaldee also expoundeth this of the house or place of assembly for learning Gods Law the tender grape the first small-grape of this see Song 2. 13. 15. open it selfe that is appeare and so give a sweet smell the Greeke interpreteth it flourish it meaneth the first appearance of fruit before the grapes be any thing neere ripe a token that the Spring is come and that Summer is nigh as Song 2. 12. 13. The Chaldee Paraphrast applyeth it to the time of Israels redemption pomegranates or pomegranate-tres such doe signifie the particular persons in the Churches full of grace and good works See Song 4. 13. there will 〈◊〉 give my loves The Spouse promiseth to give unto Christ the fuition of her graces and fruits of her faith confession thankes good workes c. there in the Vineyards of the Churches in the societie of the Saints For the Lord keepeth his Vineyard and watereth it every moment hee causeth them that come of Iakob to take root Israel shall blossome and bud and fill the face of the world with fruit Esay 27. 3. 6. And I will bring forth saith the Lord a seed out of Iakob and out of Iudah an inheritor of my mountaines and mine elect shall inherite it and my servants shall dwell there There shall the house of Israel all of them in the land serve me there will I accept them and there will I require your offrings and the first fruits of your oblations with all your holy things I will accept you with your sweet savour c. Esay 65. 9. Ezek. 20. 40. 41. Vers. 13. The Mandrakes Dudaim which the Greeke also called Mandragoraes or Mandrakes have allusion in name to Dodim loves forementioned and Dod that is Beloved as she after calleth Christ. Mandrakes grew in the field and were found in the daies of wheat harvest as the historie sheweth in Gen. 30. 14. c. It appeareth by 〈◊〉 chels desire there of them by the smell that here they are said to give that they were very lovely and pleasant differing from the Mandrakes that grow in these parts The Chaldee paraphrast calleth it Balsemon Balsam give a smell or an odour that is are fragrant and yeeld a pleasant savour so the Uines are said before to give a smell Song 2. 13. and the Spikenard of the Spouse Song 1. 12. at our-doores or by our doores which seemeth to be opposed unto the fields where Mandrakes grew as after new fruits are opposed unto the old signifying that both at home and abroad neer far the fame and odour of graces in Gods people spread it selfe For a thing is said to be at the doores when it is nigh at hand Mat. 24. 53. precious things or dainties pleasant fruits delightfull graces see the notes on Song 4. 13. 16. new and old signifying here by variety and plenty Lev. 26. 10. and old fruits are oft times better then new as Luk. uk 5 39. So â—ow the state of the Church instructed unto the Kingdome of heaven is like the housholder which bringeth forth out of his treasurie things new and old Matt. 13. 52. laid them up or hidden treasured stored-up to be reserved safely kept The Chaldee paraphraseth thus Now rise O King Christ receive the Kingdome 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 have layd up for thee As the goodnesse of God is great which he hath laid up for them that feare him Psal. 31. 20. so all the goodnesse and fruits of grace that flow from his people are unto his honour and praise consecrated unto him For of him and through him and for him are all things to him 〈◊〉 glory forever Amen Rom 11. 3â— CHAPTER VIII VVHo will give thee as a brother to me sucking the breasts of my mother I would finde thee without I would kisse thee also they shold not despise mee I would leade thee I would bring thee into my mothers house thou shouldest instruct mee I would cause thee to drinke of spiced wine of the juce of my Pomegranate His left hand under mine head and his right hand imbrace mee I adjure you ô daughters of Ierusalem why should yee stirre and why should yee stirre-up the Love untill it please Who is this that commeth-up out of the wildernesse that leaneth upon her Beloved Vnder the apple-tree I stirred up there thy mother painfullybrought thee forth there she painfullybrought forth that bare thee Set me as a seale upon thine heart as a seale upon thine 〈◊〉 for love is strong as death zeale is hard as hell the coales thereof are coales of fire the flame of Iah Many waters cannot quench love neither can the flouds drowne it if a man would give all the substance of his house for love contemning they would contemne it We have a little sister and she hath no breasts what shall wee doe for our sister in the day when she shall bee spoken of If shee bee a wall wee will build upon her a pallace of silver and if shee be a doore wee will inclose her with boards of Cedar I am a wall and my breasts as to w 〈…〉 then was
I in his eyes as one that findeth peace 〈…〉 on had a Vineyard in Baalhath on hee gave the Vineyard to keepers every man shall bring for the fruit thereof a thousand shekels of silver 〈◊〉 My Vineyard which is mine is before 〈…〉 ô So 〈◊〉 and two hundred to those that keepe the 〈◊〉 thereof Thou that dwellest in the gardens the companions attending to thy voice 〈◊〉 thou me to heare Hee my beloved and bee thou like to a Roe or to a 〈◊〉 of the Harts upon the mountaines of spices CHAPTER VIII O Who will give thee as to me a brother Even he that sucked the breasts of my mother I would finde thee without I would kisse thee And also I should not despised be I would thee leade I would thee bring into My mothers house instruct me shouldest thou I would cause thee to drink wine mixt with spice Of my Pomegranate the delightfull juice His left hand underneath mine head have place His right hand also me about imbrace O daughters of Ierusalem that be I doe adjuring charge you why should ye Awaking-stirre and why should ye disease By stirring up the Love untill it please Who 's this that comes up from the desert wast That to her Loved leaning cleaveth-fast I stird thee up under the Apple-tree Thy mother there with pain did bring-forth thee There she that bare thee did bring-forth-with smart O set me as a seale upon thine heart Vpon thine arme eke set me as a seale For love is strong as death and jealous-zeale Is hard as hell the coales eke of the same Are coales of fire of Iahs consuming flame The many waters love they cannot quench Neither the flouds are able it to dreâ—ch If man would all wealth of his house expend For love it would be utterly contemn'd We have a sister small no breasts hath she In day when she is spoke of what shall we Doe for our sister If she be a wall A silver pallace build on her we shall And if she be a doore inclose will we Her round about with boards of Cedar tree I am a wall my breasts as towres likewise Then was I as peace finding in her eyes In Baal-hamon there a Vineyard was Of Solomons the Vineyard he did passe In hire to keepers every man he brings For fruit thereof a thousand silverlings My Vineyard which is mine fore me remaines The thousand to thee Solomon pertaines Two hundred eke be the fruit-keepers part O thou that dweller in the gardens art Vnto thy voice they that companions be Attending are to heare it cause thou mee Flee my Belov'd and have a â—â—es likenes 〈◊〉 a yong Hart on 〈◊〉 of spices Annotations VVHo will give thee that is O if some would give thee or O that thou wert a forme of wishing often used in the Scripture see Deut. 5. 29. Psal. 14. 7. The faithfull here desire the brotherhood love and communion of Christ for their further comfort and that they might manifest their love and obedience unto him as a brother loving affected conjoyned familiar and conversant with me Brotherhood signifieth neere conjunction and consociation whether by bond of nature or otherwise by agreement and covenant Zach. 11. 14 Wherefore things without life coupled together are called man and his brother or Woman and her sister Exod. 25. 20. and 26. 3. and they that are companions in like estate though differing iâ— nature are brethren as Iob was a brother to dragons and a companion to Owles Iob 30. 29. and a man in quality condition or action like another is called his brother Prov. 18. 9. Gen. 49. 5. and when Solomon perswadeth his sonne to affect love and associate himselfe unto Wisedome hee biddeth him say unto her Thou arr my sister Prov. 7. 4. Although therefore Christ in his humanity was the brother of his people taking part of the same flesh and blood with them Heb. 2. 14. yet is he chiefly called our brother because we are all of one Father by the Spirit of sanctification Heb. 2. 11. 12. Matth. 12. 50. And this seemeth to bee the desire of the godly here that Christ would vouchsafe to enter into covenant with them by his Word and Spirit and to accompany them with his grace for their mutuall comfort and fruition each of others love that he would shew himselfe as a brother lovingly affectioned mercifull and compassionate in their troubles and miseries as a brother is borne for adversity Prov. 17. 13. sucking or that sucked the breasts of my mother that is every way most neerely conjoyned as having both one father and one mother for so the band or kinred is more neere then if they had one father onely as Abraham said she is the daughter of my father but not the daughter of my mother Gen. 20. 12. Wherefore the childe followed the mother if shee were a free or a bondwoman the childe was likewise Exod. 21 4. Gal. 4. 22. 30. And between brethren of the same mother the affections and love are most vehement as Iosephs cariage towards Benjamin manifesteth Gen. 43. 29. 30. 34. The mother here is Ierusalem which is above which is the mother of us all and signifieth the new Testament or Covenant of grace and freedome Gal. 4. 26. 24. To 〈◊〉 the breasts of this mother is to participate of her grace and consolations Esa. 66. 10. 11. and 60 16. and Christ is then said to suck these breasts when the Covenant or Testament is by him confirmed and stablished to and with his people openly professed and the communion of graces mutually doth grow Which communion is figuratively signified by eating drinking sucking supping together and the like Song 5. 1. Luk. 22. 15. 16 Ioh. 6. 51. Rev. 3. 20. The Hebrewes in then Chaldee paraphrase give this exposition In that time the King Christ shall be revealed unto the Congregation of Israel and the sonnes of Israel shall say unto him Come be thou with us for a brother and let as goe up to Ierusalem and we will sucke with thee the senses or meanings of the Law as a sucking child sucketh the breasts of his mother It may also be observed that things are sometime said to bee done unto Christ which are done unto his people Matth. 25. 35. 40. Acts 9. 4. 5. Colos. 1. 24. As therefore Christians when they are begotten or converted unto Christ by the Gospell have Christ formed in them Gal. 4. 19. so when such are nourished with the sincere milke of the word as 1 Pet. 2. 2. it may bee said that Christ himselfe is nourished in them for he and his people are one body and mystically called Christ 1 Cor. 12. 12. Thus the things here spoken of as to be done unto Christ may be fulfilled by the be getting nourishing and cherishing of the elect when the Covenant of life and peace is made continued and confirmed among them I would finde thee without Her fervent love and desire of Christs communion and brotherly grace is here