EXODUS.XIII. VerC4. A,ib,] which the Greeks tranflateth 4 New fruits : the word fignifieth, a green eare (or flemme) of tern, Exod.9.3 r. and becaufe isi thofe Countries corne was eared and began to be ripe in this moneth, (as witneffeth, Phi1a, in his third booke of Mofeeslif) it was called therefore Abib; fume of the Greekes name it the moneth offloures,as Macarius Egypt. in Hom.47. It was part of Marcb, and part of April,as we now call the moneths:fee alto Exod. t 2.2. s Verf..5.Canaanite] that is,as the Greekc tran[la- teth,Canaanite! andChetbiter,&c. fee Gen.ro.t6. 18. Irbufite] the Jreck verfion addeth,Ger- gefiter and Pbereziter; to make up the number of liven. which is here under(tood, as in Deut.7.i . fern:] that is, obferve, as Essod. t 2.25.or (as the Greek tran(lateth) do this frvice ; which after followeth. 6 VerC6, Seven] or, a fovea (a weeke) of loges : figuring our whole life : fee Exod. 2.15. afeajl]which among other duties,was kept with an holy eonvorstion;Levit.23.8. Verr 8. thew thy fire] It it commanded that wee thew our f nne.r , though they arke not : according to the knowledge of the par , muff hit father teach him, faith Mailmen in treat. of Leven, eh.7.S.2. becaufe or, for this which Iehovah did unto me : underhand, T his u done ; or, T hie fie wekiepe, for, or&amfeof that .Such want of words is oft in the Scripture, as in a Sant23.8.againf 800.meaning,hee rep his ftare againfi Soo. as the words are fupplyed in i Chron.x 1.11. Sobefore in Exod 4.5. The He- brew Do&ors understand itmyfkically, laying, what i that which the Scripture faith, For this ?Iris like T his is ny God, Exod.r5.2. atifbefhould fry; forhi, nahies fake and for bit glorie, did be unto m, and brought to out of Egypt ; and not jar our rigbteoufnef. R. Menachem;on Èxod.13. Verf:9.afugue] or, a token : foinvetiI6.butin Detit.6.8,àndt t .x8 it is faid,Thors fbale binde them fir a fee upon thy band , and they frail he fir Phyla- ¿leries between thine eyes: and thou fhalt write them rpm the palls of thy houle, and upon tby gates. a meemriall] or, a monument. This is an explication of that word Totaphatb,the Phylaileries mentioned after in the 0.verfThe manner of keeping there lawes among the Lewes, was ; They wrote foure fe&ions of the law upon parchments, namely there, Sanilfie unto me every fill-borne, &. Exod. 13.2 to the end ofverfexo. Andit fha1lbec when . lebovab frail bring thee into the land, &e. Exo :13.r r . to the end of vale t 6. Heart 0 Ifracl, Iehovab our God, Iebovah is one, &e. Deut.6.4. to the end of verle 9. A,dit fhalIbe, if hesrkeuittgye fballlearle unto my commandement,, &e. Dent. x I.13. to the end of ver 2 r. There foure fe&ions (containing in all 3o vet.) written onparchntent,foldenup, covered with lether,they tycd to the forehead,& to the hand. Thole that were for the head, they wrote on foure parchments, and rolled th'em up ever one feserally, and put them in foure places whien Wert;oyned together in one skin,or piece of lecher. For the hand, they wrote the fame 4. fe&ions of the law,in 4 colum es upon one parch- 8 47 must, and rolled it up from the end to the be. ginning. Thefeall were written exa&ly accor- ding to Moles copy,, not a letter more or leffe, otherwiiethe phyla&eries were not lawful to be worn.Theywere alto artificiallyfowenup in the lether,and tied with 1trings lapon the head,from the crowne forward ; and uponthe left hand or arme, above the elbow, on the infide, that they might be towards the heart:(as Dent.6.6.)How- beittheSaddaces ufedtoweare themupon the forehead (or brow) and upon the palme of the hand (aa Maimony obferveth in Tepbillin , chap,4. S.3.They ufed there phylacteries religioufly, al- waies bidding God for the commanding of there things, when they put them on, whichthey ufed to doe by day onely,not by tpght ; and upon the working daies, not on Sabbaths or feaft daies, becaufe(ray they)it is written,lt fhall he to thee for afgne , whereas the Sabbath it felfe was a figne. And though they might weare them all the day, (fo it were not in an unclean place)yet fpecially they put them on when they went to read the Law, or to pray , (whereupon they call them in their tongue, Te hillav, that is, Oraories,or Prayer ornaments : ) and abufed them to great fispee- flition,teaching,tboe all the while a man bad the phy- lingerie! upon his head and arme , hee was meek andflaring God , and not drarrne away by laughter or urine meditation, nor conceived any evill thought!, but turned bit heart to the words of truth and jut-lice. There & many other particulars about them,are largely het down by Maimeny in his treat.Tephil- lin:and the lise rites they had for their pops writ- sings, (from the Law in Deut,6.9.) and for their fringes, (fromthe Law in Numb.r 5.38.)And our Saviour blamed' the Phariièes hypocrihe,in wea- ring their pbylatierier broad,and their fringes long; Mat.23.5. And how well they thought of then - (elves for therethings,appeareth by the Paying of the Chald.paraphraft,upon Song 8.3.The congrega- tion of Ifra.l jaid , I am ebofen above all peoples, becauft I bide pbylatltrier to my kft, band and to my head, ¢tie. But God hereby taught them diligently to re- gard, and dutifully to profeffe and pra&ife his Lawes,havingthem written and laid up in their heart and foule, Deut.6.and r t.1 S. Prov.3 3.21 and7.1,3. With this we may compare that in Rev.s4.Lofthofe holy ones that hadGhrifts Fa then name written in their foreheads, as a figne of the profelfìon of Gods Law: (for that which in the Gofpel is called bit Name, Mats 2.2 r.in the Pro - phets is called his Law, Efa.42.4. So againe,An- tichril( exaéteth the obedience of his precepts,as by a mark upon mens right bandr,or on their/ore. headr,Rev. r 3.x 6. VerC r o. fromyeere, ] Hebr. from layer to ¿ayes : but layer often frgnifieth afidlyeere, as is (hewed onGen.4.3. The Çhaldee tranflateth, from rime to time: The Greeke keepeth the Hebrew phrafe: wherefore laves are prophetically ufed foryeerd, in the Greeke of the New Teftament, Rev.1 x :3: Vcrf i a.to p fe] namely either through the fire: as this phrafe is explained in Den.' 8. r o.2 Kings x6.3. and implyeth, inEzck.2o.26.Levit, c 8 a I, and IO 12
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