NUMBERS XV. nifhment of fin, Levit.2 2.9. Or, we may take quit) properly; as Sol. Iarcbi expoundeth it , when iniquity is in him , that bee repenteth not. R. Menatbem here alleageth an expofition of the ancients, that fou'e fball be tut off, and the iniquity thereof with it : at if hee fhotddfay, the iniquity /ball cleave ante it after it it cutoff, to bee punifhed for ever ; according to that (in Efay 66.24.) Their worme (hall not die; wbirb le- viathan ( the Cha.'dre paraphraft) expoundeth, Their Joule Thal not die. And our Debtors have faid, fball be cut if in this world, it fhall bee cut efrom the Iverldso come. So the - Chaldee on Mofes,which go- eth under the name of Ionathan paraphrafeth, that man(hall be deffroyed in the worldthat is to come,and /ball give account of his fine at the great day ofjudge- ment. 32 VerC 32. were in the wilderneffe] For fv ( faith Chazkuni) it n'a,decreed concerning them, that they frould not come into the land (of Canaan.) In the former eom,pandements of the drinks- offerings, and Cake, it was written Wbenyet be come into tbeland, &c. to teach,that they were not to pralIife them feve in the land : but the Sabbath ham to be kept both within the land and without, though it were in the wildernele ; and überefore it it writ- ten concerning it ; I x, THE WILD E R- NESS E. 34 Verf.34. iu ward]that is, in prifon. So they dealt with the blafphemer,in Lev. 2.4.z 2. it was not de- clared] in Greeke, they had not judged, or determiner. Wherefore was it thus ? feeing the Law had twice faid, that the breaker of the Sabbath Ihould die, Exod.3 r .4n and 35.2. Sol. Iarchi faith,it was not de- clared what manner of death bee fbott/d dye : but they knew that bee thae prophaned the Sabbath was tedie. And the Chaldee called Ionathans paraphrafeth thus ; T his .judgement was one of the foure judge- ments that came before Moles the Prophet, which bee judged recording to the roord of the holy (God.) Some of them were judgements of leffèr moment, and firm of them judgements of lie and death. In the judge- ment, of leffir moment (of pecuniarie matters) Mofes W03 ready , but in judgements of life and death bee made delayer.' And both in the one and in the other, Moles faid, I have not heard, [viz, whatGod would have done. ] For to teach the beads (or cbiefe) of theSynedrions (orAffer) that /hould rife up after him, that they fhould be ready to oatch inferiour exi- les (or many matters) but not baffy in matter: of fife anddeath. And that they fbould me bee afbamed to en- quire , in caufet that are too bard for them ; feting Mofes who war the Maffer of Iliac! , bad needto fay, I have not heard. Thereforebeimprifined him ;becaufe as yet it war not declared , what femenee fhould pall upon him. The foure judgements which hee fpea- keth of, were about the uncleane that would keep the Palfeover, Numb.9.7.8. and thedaughters of Zelophead that claimed poffeffion in the land, Numb. 27.4. 5.(thefe were the cafes cf letfe im- portance :) about the blafphemer, Levit. 24. and the Sabbath-breaker here : both which hee kept in ward, till he had anfwer from the Lord. 35 Verf.3 5. fionebim] This was effeemed the hea- vieft of all the foure kinds of death, that malefa &ors fuffered in Ifrael :fee the notes on Exod.zt. 95 12. without the tole] Hereupon they ufed to carry fuch out of the cities, and execute them far off from the judgement Hall, as Sol.larcbi noteth, So they dealt withStepken,cafling him out of the ci- tie, and (toning hint, A&.7.5 8. likewife with Na- both, t Kings 21.13. alfo with the blafphemer, Levit. 24. r 5. which was a circumltance that ag- gravated the punilhment,being a kind of reproach, as the Apoftle noteth , Heb. r 3. t r, t 2, r 3. And this feveritie fheweth of what weight the com- mandement touching the Sabbath is, the profai nation whereof,God would have thus to be aven- ged. And it further fignified the eternal] death of filch as doe not keepe the Sabbath of Chrift, entring into the refs of God by faith, and ceafing front their owne workes, as God did front his, Heb. 4.t,2,3,4sro,Is. Verfe 37. And Iebovúb faid] After the viola- ting of the Sabbath, and punithment for it,God giveth a Law, and ordaineth a fighe of remem- brance to further the fanftification of Isis pee- ple, that they might thinks upon his contman. dements,and doe them. Verfe 38. foams ofl frael] This Lacy for Fringes, concerned If,' aeloncly, not other nations; and as the Hebrews fay, men only were bound to weare them, not women. Women and feervamr, and little children , are not bowed by the Law to weare the Fringe. Beet by the weeds of the Snriber, everycbilde that Inowetb to clothe himfelfe, is bound to weare the Fringe , to the end he may be trained up in the common- dements. al n omen andfervants that will weare them, mayfodoe,but they bhp not [God , asanendoe when they put them on:] and fi all oth.r rommande- ments which women are not boundunto, if they will doe them, they doe themwithout bleffing firft. Maimoty, tom. Lin Zizitb, (or treat. of Fringes) chapter 3. fe.tion 9. that they make] they themfelves, and not Heathens for them': a Fringe which it made by an Heathen, is unlawful!; m it is written, Speak!, the formes of Ifrael, that they make unto them. Alairn. in Zizzth, ch. a. fe£t. r a. a Fringe] that is, Frin- ges, as in Dent. 22. 12. Mofes fpeaketh of many: and fo the Greeke and Chaldee tranflate it here. A Fringe is in Hebrewcalled 7-fn./jib (or Zizith) which in Ezek.8.3. is ufed for a lackq ofhaire of the head; and is here applied to a Fringe, the threds whereof hang downe as lockes of haire. And the Hebrew Doftors call it alto Gnanaph, that is, a Branch, becaufe it hangeth as branches or twigs of a tree. The Branch who b they make upon the skirt of a garment, it called Tfitfith becaufe it is like to (Tfitftb) alocke of the head, Ezek.8.3. And this Branch is called White , becaufe we are not commanded to die (or colour) it. And fir the threds oft bit Branch, there it no fee number by the Law. And they take a shred of wosU, which is died like the colour of the Fir- mament , and eye it upon the Eraneh (or Fringe s) and this tbred ti talledB /aw.Maim. in Zizitb,ch. r. fear, 2. The Fringe is called in Greeks, Crafjede, and this word is ufed by the Holy Ghof in Mat.23. 5. and of it, the Chaldee alto calleth it Crufßedin. The word Gedilion, ufed for Fringes, in Deut. 22. 124 were the thrutfis of the cyloth which was woven: 3 3g
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