LEVITICUS XV. t4 Vert 14. yongpigeons] Hebrew¡ font of the dove: one for a Sin- ofring , and the other for a Burnt-af frnng: vent 5. The like facrifice, the woman alto was to offer,ver.29. But the woman in childbed, brought for her offring, a Lambe for a burnt -of- fring,(or a dove if the were poore)and a'dove for a fin-offring Lev.i 2.6,8, The Leper brought for his offring,three bealts, one he -Lambe for a tref- paffeoffring,one ewe Lambe for a fin- offring,and one he -Lambe for a burnt-offring , (and for po- verties fake, the two later were doves) Levit. 14. 10. &c, All thefe , and onely thefe forts of un- clean pei{ons,brought offrings after their waffl- ing : others were clean by waffling and fprink- ling. For as the pollutions were greater, fo were the expiations : to teach that our repentance,hu- miliation,and returning to the Lordwith thanks after we have finned , and are forgiven, fhould be in a fort, proportionable to our iniquitie. (hall come] fo teftifying his faith and thankful - neffe ; with expe &ation of full cleanfing by Chrift, from all finne. Verf. i 5. for hit iffue] or, from bit Tut : that is, If from the uncleanneffe which he was in by reafon of his iffue. For as the iffue was a difeafe, with whichGod fometime plagued (inners, 2 Sam. 3. 29. and forwhich theywere to be put out of the hoff eflfrael, Numb.5.2. and fignified the conta- gious fans,whichcontniing fromwithin the man, doe defile him, Mark.7.2o; 23. fo this Prieft,and thefe facrifices , fignified Ghri(t, (as in the begin- ning of this booke is Ihewed) by whom we have atonement made by his blood for all fin, I Joh.7. and fromwhom venue proceedeth, to heale us by his fpirit; as it healed the woman that had a bo- dily ifne of blood tweelveyeare , when no Phyficians could cure her, Marke 5. 25, -3o. For, Hee bath taken our infirmities, and borne our fieltnefs, Mat- thew 8, 17. 56 Verf. 16. a man] Chazkuni obferveth here, that this word man, exeeptetb a little (ehilde) and he is not exempted from being counted a chide until) be be nine yeares old and a day, feed copulation] or, the efufron of feed; the Hebrew and Greeke proper- ly fignifieth the fing,or bed offeed,that is, by chan- ging the order of words , theJèed of the bed , or of copulation: and it is not meant here of the ifne forefpoken whereof fee ver.18. but of the feed of the h alth- full, who by imagination, dreame, or by any ac- cident in the night in his (leep, may be uncleane, Dent. 23. I O. Lev. 22.4. all hit f efh] that is, as the Greek tranflateth,all his bodie. See the notes on vert 5, umill the evening] notwithftanding his waffling, he continueth uncleane, till his Sun + be fee, and a new day begin. See the notes on Lev. 11.24, 32, The Hebrewes fay , The feedofcopula- tion , is a principal) uncleane thing, defiling men and vef- fels (or other things) by touching: and earthen veth by the gyre, but it defiletx not by bearing ; neither dotb be which is defiled therewith, defile garments, when bee barb torched it. Maimay in Abode batumoth chap. 5. fell. After in Deut. 23. I o,a i , all filch were commanded out of the campe, (when Ifrael went out to warre) whereinto they might not come againe, till they were waffled, and their Stone was down. V. r7. dein ]any thing made of skin: fee Lev. r1. 32. By thefe lawes God teacheth us , to bate even tbe garments totted bythe flefh; Jude, v. 23. Verf. 18. they alfo fhall bate] or, and they (ball math; to weet, both of them. By this we may fee the reafon , why- the people which were to be fan&ified at the giving of the Law , were to ab- (laine from their wives,Exod.19. s 5.andwhy the Prieft put this caution to David, If she yang men have 1¿ept tbemfelves at leaf( from women, r Samuel, 21,4, or this law feemeth to imply a pollution, even in ordinary carnali copulation, which in it felfe was lawfiill,as being the ordinance ofGod, Gen. 2.24. But by reafon of fin, nature is fo cor- rupted, that there is no all ofgeneration,where- to fonse legali pollution cleaved not5as there was alto no procreation of children , but brought much more uncleanneffe with it,Lev.I2. both of then figuring that originaliand hereditarie fin, whereby wee all have finned in one man and wherein our mothers do conceive us, Rom.5.19. Pfal. 51.7. The Hebrew do &ors fay ; The man and the woman that doe the all of generation , both of them are unclean by the fentence of the Law. And the woman it not unclean, by reafon of touching the fed of copulation, (for that is not the touching which the law fpeaketh of) but he that doth the all , is at be that feeth an accident (of uncleanneffe, Deut. 23. to.) &c. Among the Heathens, there remained monuments of this religion;as appeareth by that faying of the Poet: Difcedat ab ario,Cni tali+ herta c gaoedianot%Venus ALTibrdl. 1.2. Eleg.i. And ano- ther faith, Ille petit veniam , quoties non abffinet sate Concubitu, farris,obfervandlfque diebus. Iuvenal.Sat.6. Some refer this to the former café, as being fpo- ken of the man, that had an accident ofunclean- neffe in the night, and before he was cicanfed, Ihould conipanie with his wife. Verf. s 9. in her flefh] the Greeke faith, in her bo- 19 dy: fefh is here meant, as in verC 2. and blood is meant of her monethly cuflomes. It may alto be read thus, (who) blood, 'ball be her if fue, in herfd Hereupon the Hebrewes fay, that no other thing maketb ber toxicant, but blood onef; (as not that which made the man unclean, ver.2. or any fuck like:) and that all blood malteth ber uncleane , though it be not come forth to the exteriour pans: becaufe it is (aid, in herflefh Alfo, that the blood of virgins it eleane, and is neither the blood of fiparation , nor the blood ofif fue ; becaufe it is not from the foumaine, (whey - of fee Levit. 20. 18,) Maim, in Ifurei biah, c. 5. fe &.6. i 8, in her feparation] or, in ber removall, to weet, for the unclanneffe of her menitrues : du- ring which time, (flee was not onely feparated from the holy things as all other uncleane per - fons ; but feparated al/b from her husband, Lev. 18.19. and if they companied together, during that time, prefumptuoufly, they were to be cut off,Lev. zo. i 8. This uncleannes,was (as the relt) a figure of finne, proceeding from the flefhly and corrupt heart of man; as God himfelfe teacheth, H h h fay- 1
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