11L EXODUS XXVIII. The inferiourPriefis garments were foure. I, Linnen Breeches. 2, Fine linhen Goats. 3, Embroidered oaks of fine linnen , blew, purple, and fcarlet, like the high Priefts. 4, Bonnets of fine linnen , as large as the high. Priefts Miter. Of there (hall be fpoken after in this Chapter particularly. Unto theft we may here annex the foure ex- traordinary garments , which the high Prielt wore on the expiation day onely. t, Linnen Breeches, next his flefh. 2, A holy linnen Coat. 3, A linnen Girdle. 4, A linnen Miter, Thefe he put on, when hemade rèconcil iation for theChurch,in themolt holy place,once in the yeere, (which was the tenth day of September) & having finifhed his fervice,he put thefe clothes off, and never wore them more, but left them there. See Lev.16.4,23. with theAnnot. 5 Va r.. 5. gold] beaten into thin plates, and cut into wiers, fee Exod. 39.3. This gold,wrought with the three bloody colours, and with fine white byffe,fignified the faith,obedience and fuf- ferings of Chrift ; and his Jultice, in the admini- ftration of his Priefthood, Heb. 2.17. & 5.7,8,9. &9. 12,14.Pfal.132.9. 6 VerC 6. Ephod] or, Amide. Ephod is the Hebr. name : fo called of compafng fitly the bady,and beingtyed thereto, Exod. 29.5. By the Hebrew Dottors , it was of bredtb , according to a mans barks, from (boulder to fhoulder : and long behinde, daunt to the feet. ' Maimony , treat, of the Implements of the SanOuarie, chap.9. fe&.9. Others thinke it was fhort,as a jacke, or habergeon. Infephue in the 3d, books of his Antiquities,chap.8.) faith it was a cubit long. In Greeke it hath the name of the fhoulders, upon which it was put. This was the outmost of all the Priefts garments ; and ferved to hold raft the Breftplate : and 'figured out in Chrift, his »e- pee which he put on , as an harbegeon, Efa. 59. t 7. who appeared cloathed like a Prieft,Rev.t.13. befides this golden Ephod (which the high Prieft only did weave) there was another fort oflinnen Ephods,worne by inferior Prielts,andother per - fons, 1 Sans. 22. 18. and 2.18. 2 Sam. 6.14. cunning workman] who wrought or wove both fides alike , fee 26. 1. Of this worke, the Jewes have thus recorded : Tbegold that was in the weaving of the Ephod,andofthe Breflplate,waethus wrought; He took me thred of pure gold, andput it with fix shreds of blew, and twilled thefe liven shreds as one. Andfa he did one shred ofgold with fix of purple and one with fix of fcarlet, and one with fix of linnen. 7bits there were foure shreds of gold , and 28. shreds in all: Of which 28, bee wove the Breblpiate and Ephod, ere. Maimony, treat. of the Impkments ofthe Santluarie, e.9. f.5. &C. 1 er .7, ou er 'ices Hereupon this garment is called' in Greek Epomia, in Lat ine Superhumerale, of being put upnsolt upon the fhoulders. there mere f wen upon it too fhoukler- pieces; that they might be Verf.8. curious girdle] called in HebrewChefheb, g of the cunning workmanfhip: in Greeke, 'thernmen worke. Of this, Maimony(in the forenamed place, chap.9. fe &.9,) faith; The Ephod had ar it mere two hand;, (or pieces) going out from it ;in the weaving, of thisfide, and on that, with the which they girded,it ; and they are calledChe fheb (the curious girdle) ofthe Ephod. And after (in Section 1r.)he faith , The curious girdle of the Ephod, was sped upon bia beart, under the Breliplate. This difiereth from the Girdle (Abner) which is after fpoken of in ver.39. and by reafon of the gold in this, which the other had not,it is called the golden girdle. And Chrift appearing with a priefily garment, and girded about the paps with a golden girdle, Rev. 1. 13. was declared there- by to be our high Prieft and it hath reference to this curious girdle of the Ephod. See more on Exod. 29.5. ofthis Ephod] or, of the Ephod ofit, Which the Chaldeeexpoundeth , of the Ornament (or fitting) thereof. This is laid to be upon it: to dillinguifh it from the Girdle after mentioned in verfe 39. VerC s o. births] or , generations, by their mo= thers; Firft of all, Leabs children, (as Motes him - felfe reckoneth them, Exo. 1. ver.2,3.) and then the other Mothers children , and Rachel; lait,as shall after be more filly (hewed , in their feverall (tones , verl i 7.&c. Of this a11ò Maimony writeth, in the fame place, chap. 9. test. 9. He fit on each fhoulder a Beryl] flone, fours fquare, emboflèd in gold: and he graved on the two flones, the names of the Tribes, fix on one font, and fix on another, acèording to their birches: and they wrote Jofephs name Ihofeph (as he is written in Pfalm. St. 6.) So there were 25. letters on the one font , and 25. on the other. And she Bone whereon Reuben was written, was on the right fhoulder; and the frone that Symeon was written on, was on the left ; after themanner Here fet down. Symeon .11Y1]V) Ihndah riisii' '15 Zabulon 2511T 17 t 5t' Dan r1 'Srin3 Afer ivsut Benjamin .31],31 rr'1T1' Reuben Levi Iffachar Naphtali Gad Ihofeph 10 Verf..IT.ingraverin flone]or,ffoneentter,Ieweller. This ingraving in precious (tone, and that like a figues, with the names of the fames oflfrael; frgnified the firme and perpetuali lovc,memoriall,efteeme, and fullentation of the Church ofChrift,Job 19. 7 V f fh ld p ] 13,24. Song 8.6. Hag.2. 23. ouches] that is.bol- low placer, in which the tones were fet faft,fee v.4. Verf. r 2. a memorial!] the Gr. addeth, a memorial! concerning them. In this work,Aaron was a figure of ,eapcn the,(boulders of the prieff , faith Maimony in the Chrift ,.Hebrewes 7.28. the Connes of ¡frail, of Imp]. ofthe Saner. chap. 9. fèft.9. all Saints, called the Vac? cfGod, Galath, 6.16: The II
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