LE VIT ICuS XVIII, I05 19 -20 2I Greeke here and there tranllateth a 1 free. Artiz.eks anem/stator or envier. For when one man hath two wives, they are ready to envie and vexe one another : feeGen.4.23.and 30.15. in her lire] tr,whüer fY.e is alive,as the Greek explaineth it. Vçrf. e 9t.I n'omen]or,a wife -: even from his own wife,everyy máwas to abltain,during this her un cleamte(fe.See Levit.e z.and t 5.chapters. feparation]that is,fo long as the is feparated for the uncleanneffe of her monthly fluors ; whereof, fee Lev.' 5.19. They that tranfgreffed this Law pre - funtptuon(ly,were to be cut -off, Lev it. zo. 18. and for tranfgreffion thereof in Ifrael, the prophet proclaimeth,Ezek.22. I o. And by the Hebrew Do &ors, this uncleanneffe was at the refadue of all tbenakedmfes forementioned; rob) fotmcoveretbher nakedneJJ fo,deferveth to be cut off Maintony in IjJù- rei biab.ch. 4. felts . Verî.2o.notgive thy copulation, farfeed] or,offed; that is, not lye flefhly with her ; not commit adultery: which the Hebrew exprefleth hereby the lying (or bed) unto feed: and in Leviticus19.2o. :be l - mg(or be ) offeed; and fo the Greek tranflateth it here. The phrafe meaneth carnai copulation : and not Only when it is untoeffufion of feed,but any other uncleanneffe. The Hebrew cannons -di - [Hagan between the beginning of thisa &(which they call t¡:e uncovering of nakednefe ) and the no- complifhmentthereof. And in all thefe copulations f oken of, whether he bath uncoveredher nakee f (be- ginning the a & with his body,) or bath accomplifh- edit ;yea though it be not to the eeufsonof eed, &c. when he bath begun the all with his 4ody,t(tey are both of them guiltyofdeathby the Magiflrate, or of cutting of, or of beating, orofchaf ifement. Maintony in Ifftrei biab, cha .te &a o. Verf 21. ofthy feed] that is,ofany of thy chil- dren,thyfmor thy daughter,as Mofes ekpoundeth it in Deut.t8.,o.SeealloLev.zo.2. through the fire]this word fire, is after expreffed in Dent. i S. ' o. and in 2 Kings 1' . 3 which another Prophet expoundeth,burne in the fire,2 Chron.28.3. which was the abominable colonic of the heathens fo dedicating their children unto idols and devils: and the like abomination, theIfraelites commit- ted in a valley neer to Jerusalem, 2 Chron. 33.6. Jer.32 35. which King Iofiat abolifhed, when he defiledTophesh,wbich was in the valley of tb e formes of Hiomom ; that no man might make bu forme or hisdaugh- ter, to page through the fire to Malec'', 2 Kings 23.10. This hn is here forbidden antongft whoredomes and incefis , becaufeeven it is fpirituall whore - dome ; as in Lev.z o. 5. it is called agoing a whoring afterMollet,; The manner of doing this wicked - nelfe,is not now certainly known:boit is thought to be done two wayes, force being burned to death, other force made to paffe onely betweene two fires,for a figue of confecration. So of Achaz King of Judah, it is faid, be burnt NIP'S in the fire, 2 Chron.28,3 . and of the Jewes, that they burnt their finites and their daughters in the fire, Jerem 7.3 . and that they burnt their fines with fire , fir burnt offrivgs unto Baal,Jerem. i 9. 5 yea they facrificed their fans and their daeegbhers unto Devils; and fled in- recent blood,theblood of their footones and of their daugh- ters ; whom they fie, iji- ed unto the idols of Canaan. Pfal. t 06.37,3 8.R.&ccliai (on Lev.' 8,) tà ith that the parents were perlwaded,that by this sacrifice the teat of their children {hold be delivered from death,& that they theuifelves (home( profper for it,all dayes of their life. Of the manner of conic- crating and not killing their children , the He- brewes write thus ; Tbere was agreat fire kindled, and (the father) takefineofhú fee.d, to deliverthe fame unto the P, ,efts that f,ved the fire :. and the fame .Itriefirgate the franc unto his father after that be was delete' ell into their hand, eoeauf hint to pap- through the fire,by hie leaze : aril the father of the franc, was áe that made hisfanne paffe through the fire , by the leave. ofthe Psief s., and beledhim through on bis jeer, from one fide to another pinthe midfiofthefiarat; but, burned bin not to Mofeb, -after the manner that th burned their fanner and their daughters to other Idols; but this fervice named Molech, :war by paging through cos/ /y. Maimony treat: f Idalat/t. ch. 6. feet. 3., Arid toe the manner ofkillnig their chldreri; in the ho- nor of Molech, it is thus recorded' in an Hebren Commentary called Ialkat, upon Jerem.7.fol.61. co1.4. 7h all ( other ) bortfèr ofIdolatry were m' Ieruf lem, yet Molech, boufe was without the city , in a place a part. How was Molech made ? Itwas an Image having taxface ofa Bullorkand bands fpred abroad,hk a Man that epereth bis bards, to receive fomewhat trash - in, it was hollow, andforit there was. lei,en Chappell buil sled , before which this image 'varlet, offered a indoor doze,rentimatbefi ft Chapped ; if- hebvugbt a Lambe, be went into the frond; if sRamtne into the third; ifa calfe,into tbefourtb ; ifa bullocke into the fift; ,fan Oxe,into the fixt ; andif be offeied-his fmne be went into the feventh. He kijJrd Molech, as (in Hof. 13.2.) Let the facrificera ofinen,hif Je the calves. Thefinite was fit before Molech, and Moled, havig fire put under' it,wat made burninghot. Then the Priefir taking the child, put him into Molech, burning hands s and to the end that&efather might not heare the c y 'of the childe, they did beat upon Tabery : thereupon vest the place call edtophet;ofTO, which is a Taber But of there things, we have no certainty, favë'that the Scriptures witneffe filpch impiety to have been in Ifraeli Molech]the name of an Idol,or Starre, which the Ammonitesand other heathens wor- fhipped, calledalto Moloch Amos 5. 26. and Mil, eom,v King.'r.5,7. and was fo named, as being Mekch,King;wherefore the Greeke tran(lateth it Arehart a Prince : and is thought of force to be the lar Saturne , the higheft of all the Planets, unto which theCarthageniansare faid to have facrifi- ced the belt of their formes, Dindon. Sicvl. I zo; and'likewife the Phcenisians, Eufeeb. prep. Evang. lib.4.Others thinke it was the Sunne, which is as King and chiefe of all the Planets,andwhom the Phoenicians worshipped by the name of Beel fa- mot, that is, Lord of heaven, as Sanalionjatbo teli- fieth,in Eufeb.Evang.peep; lib. r. called in the holy Scriptures Baal. And this feenacth probable, for wheras in Topbet in the valley of the font of Hin- noitt; they ufed to make their children paffc throughthe fire to Moleeb, 2 King.23. t o. let erny frith
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