I2 13 LEVITICUS 'VI. Lev.14.40,41.for they canie fry a polluted houfe; but their aches came from the Lords holy houCe, therefore were to be laid in a cleave place, where no dead carkaffes, dung, or other filth was laid. Verf, 12. frail be burning] or, fFaibe kindled (or made burne)on it. From hence the Hebrews gather, that the fire might not be kndled beneath , and then laid upon the Altar, but was tobe kindled on the Altar it (elfe; Maimony, treat. of the dailyfacrifice, c. 2. f. 9. And Baal Hatturim noteth, how front hence they have faid , Although fire came dtwne from heaven, yet they were commanded to bring of common fire. be put eut] or, quenched The Hebrew canons fay , Hee that quenched; the fire oftbe Altar, is to be beaten; for it ú faid, It (hall notbe put eut, (Lev.6. 12.) though it be but one wale, and though it be downefrom upon the Altar, he that putteth it out, u to be beaten; Maimony, ibid e. z. f.6. wood] no other fuell was allowable for the Altar , and it was to be the wood of the publike Congregation, (as isobfervedon Lev. i.7.) And as al things about Gods fervice,were to be of the. heft : fo this the Hebrewes fay , the wood was to be none but choife o fuch as had nowornies-init. And that, Timber of buildings pulled downe, was ever nnlawfull ; they night bring none but new wood ; Maimony, in Ifjitrei zbeah, c.6. C 2. every morning] Hebr. in the morning in themor- ning. Of this Crevice, it is recorded ; In the mor- ning they laid the wood in order, and they made upon the top of the Altar , agreat fire , &o. lilgewi fe towards eve, sang. Three fires were orderly made upon the top f the Altar, every day: the firfi was the great fire, on which they offred the daily facrifice with the other oblations ; the frond was a little fire in the fide , from which they tooke fire in a center , to burn irtcenf with every day ; the third was not for other ufe but to confirme the commandement concerning the fire; which it written, FIRE Co N- TINUALLY SHALL BE BURNING, Levit.6.13. Wee haze been taught that that which it faid, BI- CAUSE OF THE 'BURNING UPON THE AL- TAR, Levit. 6.9. is meant of the great fire : and ibis, THE FIRE OF THE ALTAR SHALL RE BURNING Ix Ir,Lev. 6.9. io the fecond( fire) for the Incenfe : and shin, T H I FIRE UPON T H E ALTAR SHALL BE BURNING IN IT, Leviticus 6. 12. is the third, fir keeping of the fire, Maimony, in treat. of daily facrifices, chap. 2. fe &.2,4,5. Verf. 13. Fire continually] This commandement for nourifhing the fire alwaies, being fo oft re- peated, (heweth it to be of weight, and carefully to be obferved : and dignified, how by Chrift our Altar, wee fhould have continually through his Spirit, encanes ready for the purgingand taking away of our fins, and acceffe to offer untoGod the facrifices of praife, I Joh.i.9.Heb.13.10,15, likewife the dutieofGod Minifters, by daily preachiug of the Word (which is likenedunto is re, Jet. 23. 29.) to kindle and ftir up the graces of the fpirit in men which may never be quen- ched,Matth.3. i 1. I Thef5.19.It fore- (hadowed allo the worke of Chrift , who came to fetid fire on the earth , and earnefly defired to have it kindled, Luke 12.49. likewife the afili &ions ofChrift and 33 his Church, which aretontinuall in this world, and through which we muff enter into the King dome of God, Mark.9.49 Heb.2.I o. z Pet.4.12. The Hebrews fay of the fire on the Altar that it war as a ladder for the Angels to afeend by: ar (in Judg. 13. 2o.) the An,ell f the Lord afcended in the flame of the Altar; and in Ezek.9.2. fix menflood befude the bra- zen Alttar: Baal-Hatturim on Levit. 6. Vera 4. Meat- offring] the Mincbah, whereof fee Levit. z. and the Annotations there. before the Altar : that is , faith Sol. Iorchi, the South, for that mar the face (or fore -part) of the Altar ; for the fobs bank mar fit on that fide. Ver.a 5.ofreJe] of fweet finell : fee Lev.2.z. The Jerufalentie Thargum tranflateth it., of favourable acceptation :arid Onkelos, to be receivedreitb favoura- bleacceptation. . Ver.16. unleavened cakes] that is, made into un- leavened cakes , as the next verle (heweth. This, and the like that follow, (hew, how they that wrought about the holy things of the San&uary; and they which waited at the Altar, were parta- kers with the Altar: fo the Lord proportionably ordained alto under the Gofpel, 1 Gong. 13,14. Ezek. 44.29. See Deus. 18. 1,2. &c. W hat leaven and unleavened cakes dignified, is noted on'Exo. a 2. holy place] meaning the Court of the San&ua- rie,in Numb. a 8. io. it is called the Holy of holies, that is , the molt. holy place ; yet hereby was meant , neither the moft holy within the Tabei- nacle,(into which nonewent but the high Prielt, once a yeare, Levit. 16, 2. &c.) neither the holy place there: but the court of the fan &uary,where all thealoft-holy things were boiled,baken,dref fed and eaten by holy perlons : as is explained after, ver. 26. and Lev. 8.31. See the notes on Le- viticus 24.9. Verf:17. with lamest] or, /evened; as the Greeke tran(lateth it. holy of holies] that is, muff holy : Hebrew,holine of bolinefr. The like is raid after, touching the Sin- offrings, &c. Levit. 6.25. and 7. I 6. &c. Other things were called holy, as the Paffeover, Tithes, Firft- fruits, &c. Such the He- brews call height holy things, to diftinguifh them from the moft holy : and the Lawes concerning themdiffer.The Sin - offring,Trefpas-offring,and remainder of the Peace- offrings, were not eaten but by the males among the Prielts, within the court. Other offrings,Tiches,firft-fiuits,(houlder and breft of the peoples Peace- offrings, and the like, were for the Priefts , their fons, daughters, &c. that were dean, Numb. 18.9,10,11,19. A- gaine,thc molt holy things are here limited to be eaten within the court: the light holy things were to be eaten in the place which the Lord (hould chute, &c. Deut.i 2.5 6,7. & 16.5,6. which after, was lerufolem; whereupon the Hebrew ca- nons fay , Who fo, eaterb a bit of the fiejb of the moil ho- ly things, without the court, it to be beaten, &e. The famejudgement is for him that eatetb the (eight holy things, out of Jerufalem. For jerululem walls, are for the light holy things ; at the :palls of the court for the mofe holy. Flefh of the moil holy things, that is carried out oftbe walls of the court ; and the fiefh of the light holy things, 14 1s 16 17
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