EXODUS XXX. God, Heb.13.5 5. Ioh.6,23.24.which prayers are compared unto incenf,Pf,145.2. Therefore from the loure horns of thegolden Altar, a voice is heard,Reve1.9.I3. as anfwering to the prayers of Gods people in Chrift. 7 Verf7. borne] or, cenfe,perfxrne, of fweet _Veer] or, of odours, that is, fweet odoriferous in- cenfe, compounded of fundry things as after in verfe 34. &c. Therefore the Greeke tranflateth it, incenfe compounded. every morning] Hebrew, in the morning in the morning. drefth] òr , trimmetb : Hebrew maketh well. As the Lamps fignified the light of Gods Word, and incenfe , prayers ::fo the doing of thefe both at one time,f5gnified our joyning of prayers with our exercifes in the Word : as A&s 6.4. 8 Verf8,toafend] that is, to Lame ; fee Exod,t7. 20. The order of burning incenfe as the Hebrew Doftors have recorded, was : that one went and gathered the adzes from off the Altar, into a gol- den veflell ; another brought a veffell full of in- cenfe, another brought a cesfer with fire,and put coales on the Altar; and he whole office it was to borne the incenfe(when the other,having bowed themfelves downe, were gone out) firowed the incenfe on the fire; when hewas bidden fo to doe by the governour. At which time,all thepeople went out of the Temple from between the porch and the Altar(in Solomons Temple.)And every day they burned the weight of an hundred denaries of incenfe,fifty at morning, and fifty at evening.[Thofe too. denaries were a potind a- mongft them, and weighed fifty fhekels of the Sanétuary ; every fhekell being in weight 32o. Barley cornes.] And when the Prieft had burned the incenfe, he bowed him downe, and went his way out. Maimony treat: of the Daily fervice,C19.3. So when Zachary, as his lot fell, burned incenfe in the Temple , the whole multitude of the peo- ple were without atprayer,while the incenfe was burning,Luke 1.9_ t o.By this fervice,God taught them , that the faithful! prayers of his people, are fweet as incenfe, and acceptable unto him; whiles our Prieft Chrift Iefus,doth by his media - tion,put much incenfe to the praiers of al Saints, Pfalme 54T .2. Revel, 8.3.4, Heb.8. s.z. and 9.24. Rom.8.34, For the Melts in the Law, fined unto the example and fhadory of heavenly things, Heb.8.5. continuall imenfe] Hebrew, incenfe of contimiácion,that is, which continually every day fhould be offred. So we are willed to pray without ceafing, 1 Theff.5. 17. and thrift our High Prieft, ever love: h, to make intercefonfar ttt, Hebrewes 7.25 . and 9.24. 9 VerC9, ffrangeincenfe] 1n Greeke other incenfe: that is, received from other perfons , or made of other matter or compoficion, then is after cone- manded,in ver.34.3 5.36,The Chaldee tranflateth ir,incenfeof firemge fpiece. The Hebrew DoEtors ex- plaine it thus, If they put horny animal it, it wat all unlawful!, [Lev. 2.11.] if there wanted any one of the fweet fpeces thereof, llama in danger of death, for loe it n'a, made ffrange incenfe. So if bee burned other incenfe not li1¿e thiy or burned upon it incenfe like this,wbich was voluntarily brought by any private per fan, or by many, &e. 127 &c. Ñlaimony., :treat, of the Implements of the San'. auaey, Cbap.z. Sefi.8.1 t It figured the prayers of the Saints, which mutt bee according to the will of God, by his Spirit,and in faith : not after the tradition of man, or will of the flefh, t Lohn 5. 54, Rom.8.26. Matth. z1.22,and 15.9. Luke i1. Verf. z o. once] or, one time,which was thetenth day of the feventhmoneth,the day of Reconci- liation, asLevit.i6.58.29.30. See the annotati- -ons there. of the Sinne fthsg] the Greeke tran- flateth, of the purgation of tinter : which phrafe Paul ufeth, laying of Chrift,: that he made a purgation of our flans; that is,cleantèd us from thern,Heb.t.3. of atonement.] that is,whereby reconciliation was made. Which being a f;gure of the blood of Chrift, reconciling us to God, Hebr;á,1 7. figni- fled that the imperfetions and fines which cleave even to the belt prayers of the Saint are to be pardoned & purified by that blood and death. hvy of holies] that is, a moll holy thing : Heb. ho- 1me)T of bolineffes. Et la a Io f Here beginneth the 2 1 Se &ion of the Law, fee Gen.6.9. . Vert a 2.fumme]oreompt t in Hebrew head: be- I z taufe the fumme is as the head of the number. Therefore the Gr.here interpreteth it computation, and the Chaldee, Comp: or Nunìber.. So in Numb. i .2, by thole' that are to benumbred] the Greeke faith, in (or by) their, vifetation; the Chaldee, by their Numbers. of hie [auk] that is, of bar ltfe, which he fhould now lofe, when he was particularly vi- fited and looked unto of. God ; if her redeemed not himfelfe with money. By this God taught his people to judge themfelves for their heroes, that they might not be judged of him, Ezek. 20.. 43. and 36.31. 1. Cor. 51.31,, And this redee- ming of their foules with money, taught than faith in Chrift , who was to redeeme his people, not with gold an d flver, but with his owne precious blood, 1 p4, 1.18.'9. 110 plague] for their fins, if they were not redeemed, When David num- bred the people,the Lord lent a peltilence among them,to the death of 79 thoufand men , 2. Sant. 24.9.t5.'Forplague here theGreeke tranflateth fall or ruine, the Chaldee, death. Verf.i 3. of she Santi:tary ] which was twitelo 13 much as the common fhekell. See the notes on Gen.2o,16. twenty gerahs]as if we fhould fay, 'twenty pence : this finse is allo expreffed in Levit. 27.25. Numbers 3.47. and t 8.16. Ezek.45. t 2, A Gerab (which the Hebrew DoEtors name allo Megnab) weighed lixteene barley cornes: twenty gerahs made the fbekell of the Santtnary,which was 3 20. barley corns weight of pure tier , as Maimon] affirmeth, in treat, of Vsluatirns,&c. eh. c. S:4. Verf14. old.] 1iebr. fn of twenyyeares, that ion 14 going into his twentieth yeare. See Gen.5.32.At this age they were all() numbred in Num.' .3. $t 26.2. & what thenumber of men,and Cum ofmo- ney,was now at the firft counc,fee inEx.38, z 5, 2 6 Verfe
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