LÉVITICUS Xl. tky are :rnlawfull to be eatetn,&c. (Lev. i i.4t,42.)yet baff thou none of all the creeping things , that defdeth(by touebin; it) when it is dead, fave the eight forts that are rarefied in the Law ; Maimony, in Abotlh hatumoth, c.4.f.t4. 32 Verf. 32. ought of them] to meet, f their f efh. For as of beafts the Hebrew Do&ors fay The bones, bons, hoofs, griffks, finew,r, &c. f their earlyjJs, b not defile; to wets, when they are ftparated fromthe car - 1" fl; though who fo toucheth any of thefe things , while they are joined :lid: the fiefb, be is melean; fo they fay , The bones , finews , nails f creeping things , are dean. Maim. in Acotbbatumoth,e. I. f. 7. and e. f 8. vef ll j or, inffrument ; any thing made for ufe or fervice. The Hebr. lay, There are feven forts f'vef is (or inflraments) that by the Law da readve un leannefl; :phi b are clothes , things made of shin , and Saco , and things made of bone , and ofmetal , and of wood, and(Potters earth. Five of thefe they gather from this serie and the next ; for metals , from Num:31.22,23. and for bones, from Num. 31.2 0. all workofGoats,á'i.which by tradition they lear- ned to underftand, of veflsmade of the barns, or hoofs, or bones ofGoats, and=figment!), of other beans : Maim. inCelim,c. t. ft. afrtood] under this; they underhand al fo, veffels made of Bndrafhes(as Efay 18. z.) and of Reed, of Wiekr, of fbels ofNuts, harks fTrees, and other the like; of things which grow out f the earth like wood. All things made of wood , far the fervice and rife of man only , as Ladders, are c.'ean , and receive no pollution at all. And all things made of wood, for the fervice of veflt , andof men at T abler, Cupboards, Bedr, arid the like, da receive pollu- tion : (for theftfirve both for mans nfe , and for Difbes , Cups, Plate, &c. to be fit upon.) Things made Owl, fir thefervice of veffèls (or inflruments) one!,, beeuufe th yfrze unto chofe things which firve unto man, if they ferve unto thofe zefls, but in the boar of imployment oney, then are they clean, and receive no pollution ; at ea a wooden ndleflirk, which ferveth f r the candle, in the time that it burtteth : and JO all other the like. But if they fine unto the veld! or inftroment , in the time of the ufi fit, andin the time when it lino: ufed, then it receivetb pobution,as Sheathes, Scabberds,eafes ofk Ives, Swords, and other the like Maim. in Celim, and c. 4.f t. cloth] whatfeever it woven, be it of Wooll, or ofFlax, or ofHemp, or of any other thing that groweth out of the dry land ; is called cloth, in this cafe of weleatmeß. Maim. in Celim, c.1 . f. t t . But cloth wo- ven of Wall thatgroceeth in the Sea receives no unclean- tuft. Ibidem, f. 3. skin] to weet, of beafts of the earth; but filch as breed in the Sea, their skins receive no uncleannefs, Mattis. in Celim. c. Sackcloth] it was made of thready ofhair, braided like a chain , or woven as cloth , and made either of Goats hair, or Camels hair, or Horfe tails, or the lik. Maim. in Celim, c. t. f 12. Hence we may obferve , that Iohn 8.uptills garment ofCamelo hair,was fackcloth oppofed to ffi and princely clothing, Mat. 3. 4 & i t. 8. and filch the Prophets of old, ufed for to wear, as Elias , (in *hofè habit, and fpirit and power, Iohn Baptifl came, Luk,t.17.) z King. 1.8. & Efaiae,Efày zo.z.and others,Zach.t3.4 any v,Dèll] or tool, irftrument, fit for, and ufed unto any work. Therefore, A skin which harlot upon it, theform (a vcffell (or inffrument) receivedno unclean. nefl. lieflrof metal! , received no uncleamefl till the work f them was all finifhed : u;perfell fbapes were not capable of pollution. Neither any other tafe /swhatfever, till they were wholly pained. And ifa clean vef ll were broken , the pieces of zt , were not capable f rencleannefl: as Maim.fheweth in Celim,c.7. fz.& c.8. f.8. f. t. & e. 6. j t. put] or brought, made come : the Greek trantlateth, dipped into water. And by the Hebrew canons, All that are unclean, inhether men or verá , arena eleanfed, but by dipping (or baptiftng) water : And wherefoever the Law fpeaketh of wafhing a mans fféflo, or wafbing f clothes fir uncleatmefl, it is not but by dipping the whole body therein. And whether they he men or veils, there may not be any thing between them and the water, to keep them afunder, as clay, pitch, or the ülge that cleaveth to the body or vefll: iif there be , then they are uncleanrae they were befrire and their ing proftteth them not. Maim. in Mikvaoth (or Water places) e. 1. f t, 2, 12. and it (hall] or, . then it (hall be eleanfed: which the Greektranfla teth, and afterwards it fhall be clean., Before the evening, that the Sun be het, it abideth unclean, though in a Jeffe degree. And fo for men, of whore it is Paid, They (hall wafh, and be unclean untill the even : as verf. 25.28. and Leviticus 15. 5. &c. Hereupon the Hebrews defcribe the de- grees of uncleannefs ; as, 'All that are unclean with any prnoripall ùneleaneß, whether mm or vels, they are the f r/l (or chiefefl) in uncleaemefl, till they be bap - tifed. When he it baptifed,, then iJ he as thefecund in un- e/emnefl, until! hi( Sun be fet. And he that it f baptifed, (arid his Sun not fet)may not eat or drinkof the Tru- man (or hop of fri gs) or of any meat or drin4,yhat io holy. If fach a baptifed perfon touch the Truman, be maketh the third in unclea'mefl, becaufe himfelf is the fecund If he touchtthe hog meats or drink, he maketb them the fourth in une/ea tefi. But if he touch common meats, thy are clean. Maim, in Abotb hat,motb,e. In. Verf 33. earthen] or, ves of Pot- bakers earth. For there is a difference between this , and ano- ther velfell of earth, or "ofYtone. Any ve p1 made f any mould ofthe earth, and afterward burned in the Kill that ie the ve (fell (Chews) of earth , here fpoken of, Maimony, in Celim, c.1. f l3., See alto Lev. 15.12. whereinto] or, into themidff whereof The He- brews fcarining this word, fay,that an earthen vet: fill is not made unclean; but in the aire thereof. Al! other vefJilt, if uncleannefl touch them, thy are unclean : and if an unclean thing come into the aire ofthem, but touched' them not , they continue clean. And they aunt that an earthen vefll it not made unclean , but in the acre of le, as it is written, Into the mall where f any f thou falleth, (Leviticus i t. 23.) into the midi (or in- fude) thereof it is made unclean, rent in the outer parts. And as it is made unclean in the aire ofit , fait maketb meats and drinks unclean by the aire of it. As an unclean earthen veffèll , if meat or drinkcome into the aire fit , though they touch it not , yet are they made unclean, of it it written, Whatfeever it in the mill of it , (hall be unclean. But other unclean TVs make not meat or drink unclean, till thy taueh then:. Maimony wa 33
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