s._-- i..,i /ie unclean creatures. L E V I T I C LI S X I. wood,or of cloth,or ofskin,or of fackcloth; any veffell with which work is done : it thall be put into water ; and be unclean un- 33 till the evening,and it (hall be cleanfed. And ¡every earthen veffell,w hereinto any of them falleth : whatfoever is within it , (hall be 34 unclean, and ye (hall break it. Of all meat which may be eaten, that on which water commeth , (ball be unclean : and all drink, which may be drunk ; in every veffell (hall r be unclean. And every - thing, whereupon ought of their carkaffes falleth, (hall be un- clean : oven,and pots,they (hall In broken - down, unclean they are; and unclean fhall 36 they beunto you. But fountain and pit, and a gathering- together of waters, (hall be clean: bùt that which toucheth the carkafs 7 of them, {hall be unclean. And if ought of their carkafs fall upon any fowing feed, 3a which (hall be fown it(hall be clean. But if water be put upon the feed , and ought of their carkafs fall thereon : it (hall be unclean unto you. 39 And if any beau die, which is unto you for meat : he that toucheth the carkafs then. 4t- of, (hall be unclean umili the evcning. And he that eateth of the carkafs thereof; (hall wa(h his cloaths, and be unclean untill the evening : and he that beareth the carkafs thereof; fhall wafh his cloaths, and be un- 41 clean until] the evening. And everycree. ping- thing, that creepeth upon the earth ; it Jha/l be an abhomination, it (ball not be 4x eaten. Whatfoever gocth upon the belly, and whatfoever goeth upon all foure, or whatfoever bath many feet, of any cree- ping -thing that creepeth upon the earth: ye (hall not eat them , for they are an abhomi- 43 nation. Make not your fouls abhominable, by any creeping-thing that creepeth : and make not your (elves unclean by them, that 44 ye mould be defiled by them. For I am Je- hovah, your God ; and ye fhall make your felves holy, and ye fhall be holy, for I am holy: and ye (hall not make your fouls un- clean by any creeping-thing , that moveth 45' upon the earth. For I am Jehovah, that bringeth you up out of the land of Egypt, to be a God unto you : and ye fhall be ho- 46 ly, for I am holy. This u the law of the beafts , and of the fowl, and of every living foul, that moveth in the waters : and of eve - 47 rie foul , that creepeth upon the earth. To make a difference, between the unclean and the clean: and between the beaft that may be eaten ; ana the beau{ that may not be eaten. SS t..4nnotatsons. baPeaky] As before he gave fpeciall laws, for r the tau &ification of the Priefts: fo now he gi- veth generali for all the people : which both Mofes the Magiltrate, and Aaron the Minifter, mutt Beak, and teach,and fee carefully praftifed: as afterward there is example of the Magiftrates, in 2 Chr.29.5.and 3o :18. of the Pricfts, in Ezek. 44.23. and of both jointly, in Num.9. 6. where men that were unclean,came for judgement before Mofes,and be fire Aaron. And here the firft kind of uncleannefs, which commeth from things with- out the man, is defcribed. the fpn of If>ael]to them only, & the Profelytes with them,was this law of unclean meats given; not at all to other nations,as Sol.Iarchi.here faith. the bbafis] Heb. Chajah, the ni/d beafl, or, the living-thing differing from Behemah, beafi s, or mud , the word which next followeth : but the Greek alto tranflateth them both alike. By the beafls,'are fpiritually fignified, people of fundty forts ; and by eating, or not eating is meant communion with , or ab- ftaining from them, as by the villein (hewed unto Peter, the holy Ghoft expoundeth this Law, Aft. lo. 12,13,15,28. and i 1.6, ß. &c. Likewilk the Hebrew Doftors applied the unclean beafts fol- lowing in vert. 4, 5. &c. to the Babylonians, Modes, Perfians, Greeks, Romans, &c. R. Mena- chem. on Levit.i s. Verf.3. and ekaveth aftmcler] namely , into two 3 - hoofs, or eaaws, Dent. 14. 6. and fo the Greek here tranflateth it. The fermer word, parteth, maybe when it is divided above, but not beneath,as ap- peareth after in verfe 26. filch parting is in the feet of dogs,and the like,which have many claws fttndred above and joyned under with a skin. This fecond word meaneth a dunk-quite through, as in the feet of Peep, oxen, &c. So by Sol. Sor- chi it is expounded T hat diodeleth above and beneath into twoclaws. A third fort of hoofs are folid and unparted, as in horfes, &c. The frft and lait fort, were unclean. and cher'eth] or, chewing a- gain: the Greek alto addeth the word and: for both thefe properties were requifite, to divide the hoof, and to chew - again. Chewing the Cud, in the ,original], fignifieth the bringing up the meat into the mouth, to chew it again. Thefe two lignes, muff be in every beat{, or elfe it was un- clean. In Deuteronomie 14.4,5. the clean beafts are reckoned by their names , ten in number: and the Hebrew Doftors fay, Thou hall not of all the beafis that are in the world, any that it is lazrfidl to eat of, except theft ten fires mentioned in the Law; three of canal, the One , the Sheep , and the Goat : and feven farts of wild beafis the Hart , &e. thofe, and the kinds of them, Maimony in Mifneh, tom. 2. treat.of Forbidden meats, e. i. f.'8. among the beafis] to weet, bred of them according to their hind, as God ordained in the fiat creation, Gen. 1.24. For, as it was not laivfull to let the cartel ingender with a divers Ifend,Levit.19.19. fo by the Hebr. ca- nons,If an une.'can be 41 brought firth heryong,after the !find of a ciran beafi although it did both part the hoof F.ee S. and
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