1.&VITICUS XVII I. tioas, which were done beforeÿoti; and ye fhall not be defiled in them : I am Iehoväh your God. AAnotatiops. 3 DOing]that is,dóings or a¿iions,as the Greek and Chaldee translate : the fi n ular number im- pheth all and everie one of_.their unlawful! praftices. lad]which the Chaldeè explaineth, thepeople of the land. Of Egypt, the fcripture tefti- fieth ,t hat it was an Idolatrous land,and there It- rad had beene defiled,Eze.2o.7.8.and 23.8. Like- wife ofCanaaan, Levit.2o.23.therefore thefe two are ex refly named, and all other implyed. fatuter]or, decrees , ordinacesdefcribed by their !awes; either for religion or otherwife it they were fuperftitious.The Hebrew doftors explaine it thus; We may not wake in the flatntes of the heathens, nor be Hie unto them, either in apparel!, or in haire [Lev. r9.27.] or any the like, Lev. r 8.3. Bat Ifrael muff be (eeparated from them and knowne by their appareU and their other works , ät they are feparated from them in their kìmteledge. and opinions: and f he faith (Lev. 20.26.) I have feparatedyou from (ether) peepes. A men mufi not apparel! himfelp with the appareU that it peculiar unto them, nor let the locks of his lead grow, like the leckes of their beads, nor _Pave If the fides, and leave the haire in the midff , ar thy doe , t t. nor build places, al thy build temples for idolatrie, &c. Maimony treat.of ldolatrie,cha i i.feft.r. Verf.4.myfatutesjthat is, mjneonly; as, him thou 4 fhalt ferve, Dcut.6. 13. is expounded by our Savi- our, him only thou (halt ferve : Matt.4. i o. It mea- neth alto all my flatutes, Deutero. '2.32. and fo 7he words ofthit law , Deut.27.26. is explained by the Apoftle, all things which are written in the books of the law,Ga.3. i o. therfore in the next verfe here, the Greeke verfionaddeth, Andyefhatikeepe all my fatutes. Ofthis it is laid; lehovab who broughtyots up out ofthe land of Egypt, with great power, anda firetched out a me, l m fhall ye ferre , and him fhatiye worfhip, =alto .himfhall yedoe facrifïce, one/the Sta- tutes, and the judgements, and the Law, aldwmman- dement which he wrote for you, ye fhati obferve to doe for evermore, andye /hall not fiare other Gods; and the Covenant which have made withyou,yefhall not forget, Prc. 2 King. 17.36,37,38. By this there- fore God forbiddeth them all mens inventions, Ecclef..7.29. the works of their owne hands, Ier. 25.6. and the ftatntes of the Kings of Ifracl , which theyafter made without the commandement of theLord,a King.17.8.Mat.6.t 6. 5 Verf.5.fbali live by them] or in them : that is,fhall have eternal! life of God, for doing them : and fo theGhaldee paraphralèth, he fhailive by them to life eternal!: and as Solomon larchi faith , in the world that is to come. This and the like promifes elfewhere, as in Ezek.20a 3. are legall,and differ .7 from the promifes of the Gofpell;as the Apoffle obterveth Paying; The tuff fball live by faith: and the Law is not of faith, btu the man that dab them, ¡hall live by them, Ga1.3.tz.r2. and agáine, Far Motes defcribetbthe jufice which irof the Law , that theman which loth them Pall live by them, (alledg- ing the very words of this text,according to the Greeke verfion : ) but the juftieewhich is of faith, fpeaketh on this wife ; Say not in rite heart , who floall goe up to heaven, th'e. That, if thou (halt eonfeffe with sly mouth, that lefut it the Lo R n , and/halt bekeve en thineheart , that God bath raifid him f om the dead, thou fhakbefaved :Komi o.5.-9 . Verf.6. None ofyeti] Heb. Man man ye fhall not approach: that is, not any man. To approach or (come neere) is ufed for carnal! copulation,as inGen.2o. 4. Abimeleeh bad not come neere unto her. So inEzek. i 8.6.and Efa.8.3. I approached unto the Prophet, and fhe conceived, &c. Moreover from this word a - proach, the Hebrewes (comparing herewith the 3o.v.) doe fay , Who fe commeth to any of tbefe naked - mO(the unlawful! copulations followir g,)eitber Iry seayof copulation, or that imbracethor kiffetbby way oflnfl, any ofbit !Came , into be beaten by the Law. F or the meaning is, ye fhallnot approach unto the things which may bring you torte the uncoveriiog of their nakd- nere. And it is unlawful! for a Haan to make fagnes with hand foot or eye (as Prov.6. i 3.) to any of thefe,orto fportwith her,or to gaze on her beau - tie, &c. Maimoreeyin Iff ereibiah, chap.zi.feft.e.2. here-kart] The Hebrew Sheer fignifieth flefh, P111.73.26. Prov.5.t land 11.17. And as $afar, kb, is femetime ufed for kind ed,'Gen.29. t 4. fo is Sbeer,in this cafe ofmariage & copulation;and fo by the Chaldee and Greek it is tranflated veer, and here-of kirme. nakedne f ] that is, thefecrets, or thaniefull part of the body , whereoffince fin came on mankind,we are molt afhamed : therfore the Greeke tranflatetli it fbame or uncomelinef; which alto the holyGhoft alloweth in Re. i 6. s 5. and inRev .3.i8.itiscalledthefbamefna wine e. To uncover nakednef here, meaneth carnal! co u. lation, and inceft;not onely out of maried cftate, but alto unlawfiill and incefinons mariages. The Hebrewes fay, Whatfoever copulation it forbidden in the Law; for which one is guilty ofcutting I, and which are ¡pokey of in Lech. i 8. they are called Nakedm f t, and every one of them it calledincef (ornak.dnef ;) at with mother, or After, ordaughter and the /ikg. Maimo- ny,treat of Wiz es,chap.i.feft.5, Verf.7. of thy father and the nakedneffèof thy mo- tier] This is one fait but a double finne: for by uncovering the fathers nakedneffe, is meant the lying with his wife ; as Lev.2o.1 i.and as after is verfe 8.and in verfe a 4.the uncovering of the un- cles nakekneffe,is expounded thé approachïngun- to his wife, The Hchrewes fay, He that lieti with his mother ana fie hisfathers xi4f , is double guilty; ( whether it be while hit father it living , or of er his death ;) once fir thatfhe is his mother , and againfor tbatfhe is his fathers wife. Maimónyin Iffitreibiah, chap.2.fe &.2. It mayalto be thus fpoken, to im- ply the woman with her father, as the man with his mother : and fo Ionathan in his Targum here paraphrafcth, The töoman fiall not lye with berfather, and theman flan not lie with hit mother. Ver,P. thy futber,. wifr] though the be not thine owne 103 6 7 8
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