GENE SIS XIX as if he would have gone further, but conftrained by the Disciples, bee ftayed with them : Luke 4Vert: 3. pref d upon] or, war leant, conffrained : 3 fo Luke 24.29. a banquet] or, 'a drinking; as both the Hebrew andGreeke words fignifie, for Large drinking is used in banquets hereupon it is called the banquet ofwiae, Elth,5.6. and 7.7. and the King and Haman came to drink with Qecne Eflher, that is, to banquet, Efih. 7.1. So Efth.3.15. unleavened - cakes] for hafte, becaufè time fìtt- fered theth not to be leavened. See Exod. 12.39. where the word cakes is expreffed, which here wanted : as on the contrary, cakg were expreffed in Gen. i 8.6. w here unleavened is to he underftood. 4 Vert 4. Pan: the utma fl] meaning, from every quar- ter: for the Hebrewoften omitteth the repeating of the C1me word at the end, for brevities fake; as I Ghrou. 17. 5. from tent tó tent, aneifrom tabernacle: where againe is to be understood unto tabernacle. So here from uamofl part (tourmoff pars:) that is, from all parts. Sometime it is fully expreffed,as in Match. 24. 3,r. from the end of heaven, to the end thereof The Greeke tranflateth it here, all the peo- ple together. Verc 5. called unto Lot] They were not ashamed to proclaime their bwne filthineffe: fo God re- proveth the Jewes, they declare their fins as Sodom, they hide them not, Efay 3'. 9. may know them] that is, may lye with them : as Gen. 4 2. which fenfe the Greeke verfion alto giveth here. Hereupon that horrible and unnatural) fin, which the Scripture calleth lying with the male, Levit.18.22. and 20.13. is called Sodomie, as being firft pra &ifed in Sodom, and the cities about it; which God would there- fore feverely plague in this-world, and for ever, as the Äpottle writeth of Sodom andGomorrah, and the Cities about' them in like manner giving them - felves to fornication, and going after other _pep; they are fit forth for an example, Hiring the vengeance of of eternall fire, Jude verf. 7. The Canaanites ha- ving fallen from God, to idolatry, Deut.1 I.2,3. 30.31. God therefore gave them up to unclean- neffe, to difhonour their owne bodies betweene themfelves, and leaving the natnrall ufe of the woman, to burne in lull one towards another, men with men, doing that which is unfeemly ; as Paul obferveth, in Rom. 1. 23,24,-27. An exam- ple of like fi[thineffe , fell out after this in If? ad Jndg. 1 9. 22. gcc. 6 Verf. 6. the doore] two words are here ufed for a doore, the fill] Petb9ch, which is the open - place, whereat he went out : this latter, deleth, which is the doore that thutteth,up the pottage. 7 Verf.7. my brethren] thus he lovingly intreateth thole wicked men; refpe&ïng the commossbro- therhood of nature, A &. 17.26. Efay 58.7. 10 David called the evil] aad wicked, his Brethren, 1 Sam.3o.23. ó Verf.8. not known] to weet, by lingttsith the male: as the phrafe is explained inNum. 31.17: and fo by the IerufalemiaThargum here. By this proftìtu- ting of his daughters, L,t thought to avoid a greater evils : but it is not lawfull to doe evil( that goodmay come, Rom. 3.8. of my rafter] or beam . that is, of my rodle , or houfe made with rafie v : a part being put for the whole : fo the Greeke hath, un- der the roofe of my rafters : but the Chaldee faith, of my habitation. Ver.9. ffand fur:her] or ,get thee afele : as if they would confult of the matter. But by a much like fpeech ufed in Efay 65.5. it feemeth to be fpoken in difdaine. and will he judging judge ?] or, hee will judging judge: but the Greeke retblveth it into a quettion, came he alfo to judge judgement ? This phrafe , doubling the word, (whereof fie Gen.2. 17. ) may alfö imply Lots often rebuking of them at other times, for he wasvexed with the lafci- viouo conzerfation of tbofe wicked men ; and dwelling a- mong them, in feeing and bearing, tormentedhis ¡tell fiul, day after day, with their unlawful deeds, 2 Pet. 7.8. Verf. 11. with bliudnefès j or, dazeled blindneffi, both of body andmind ; when the fight beames are confuted, and nothing can be t'ceneas it is. The word is not ufed but in this place and at an- other like accident , in 2 King. 6. 18. the plurali number noteth the greasnefli of the plague ; as extreme- blinelnejje. Verf. 1 ì. or thy fans] in the Hebrew, and is here for or ; as the Greeke alfo tranflateth it; fee Genets 13. 8. Verf 13. will deflroy] or, are deffroyin? : Hebr. corrupting : fee Gen '6.13. that is, we are about to de- firoy: fo serf 14. Verf. 14. were taping] that is, being betrothed, were ready to take in mariage: or had taken,as the Greeke explaineth it. If we thus understand it, thenLot had fonee daughters which perifhed with the Sodomites : for onely two which were vir- gins, efcaped with himo verf..8.3 o. This alfò fee- meth clofely to be implied in vert: t 5. goe -out] : The Hebrew word hash in it a pricke extraordi- nary, (noted alfo in the Hebrew margin)which intreateth the fignification, as urging an hahlie going-out. The like is in Exod. 52.31. Vera 5. are found] that is, prefent. The Chaldee IN addeth, which are foundfaithful( with thee: the <,reek faith, which thou bazeff. But found is often ufed for prefent, i Chron. 29.17. 2 Chro.5. i 1. and 20.31. and 31.1. and 34.32. tbeini5tsioyJ that is, the punmeut fir iniquity. Hereupon is that ufuatl phrafe of bearing iniquitie, for Miring puni/4,nsent, Lev.zo.I 7,19,26. Nutnb.14.34. Even the righte- ous are in danger , to partake of thewickeds pu- nill3ment; if (when God calleth)they depart not from among them. Compare Rev. 18.4. Verf. 16. lingred] or, delayed, dill ra¿led himfelfea 16 with much trouble and bufineffe: the Greek tran- flateth they were troubled. David contrariwi to de- layednot, to keepe Gods commands Pfa. 119. 6 o. in thegintle-mereie] or , for the merciful! flaring, that is , the Lord being merciful! and flaring him; as the Greeke tranflateth. The word importeth gemlenege and loving afetiion, orrommiferation, as whereby men are flared ¡tom puniffment. So in E- fay 63.9. in his love and in hisgentio mereie , God re- deemed his people. 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