GENE SIS XX 79 not, in any worldly thing ; but by bit knowledge hee over- commeth hit áfetiians continually; and he io a man ex- pert in knowledge, and of azery large underflanding: &c. Ou fetch a min , the htry 1pirit commeth donne ; and when thespirit relied, upon hint , bin fule ú afocia- ted unto the Angels and bee is ohmged to another mar; and perceiveth in bit ówne kno v ?edge, that bee it not fo or be mat, but that he it advanced above the degre:s of other wife men : even at it is faide Saul , (in o Sam. 1 o. 6.) and this [halt prophefie with them, and fbalt be turned into another man. Mainumy in Iefudei bate - rab,ch.7. fe£t.t. Chill pray] This was a fpeciall worke of the Prophets, to pray for the people, Jer. 14. II. and 15. 1. whereupon it is faid; If they be Prophets, and if the wordof !be Lord be with them, let them intreat the Lord , Oe. Jer. 27. 18. Praying or intetpellatìon , hath the firft fignification of judging , and fo meaneth the prefenting of the person and caul of an y unto God as the judge; and the judging of ones Celle. live thou] that is, thou (halt live: but it is a power- ful! manner of fpeech : ( whereupon God is raid to command his mercie,and the falvation and blel fing of his people, Plaint. 42.9. and 44.5. and 133. 3.) The like is often tiled , as Amos 5. 4. fieke me and live: that is, yet all live, and dwell fir ever, Pfal. 37.27. dying]] that is, (halt fnrely die: fee Gen.2.17. Verf. 9. that fhoúldnot] the Chaldee tranflateth, that are not meet to be done ; the Greeke faith , which none Amid doe. 1I Verf.ii. Surely ,or artery] The Greeke tranflateth, Left there be not the feare of God : fo making it an un- perfeft Cpeech, implying doubt, as,in Mat. 25.9. By the fiare of the Lord men depart from evil, Pro - verbs 16. 6. 12 Verf. 12. of my father] The Jewes opinion from hence is;that Sarah was the fame that ifeah, men - tioned in Gen. 11.29. and had two names r and that (lace being the Grandchild of Thora, by ano- ther woman then Abrahams mother, is fo fpoken of here. became] Hebr. was tome ,for a wife. 53 Verf. 13. obey even God] Æ /ohim the name of God , forme plurall, is ufually joyned with a wor fingular, as bee created, Gen. t. r. here and in loose few other places, it is coupled with a word plural: not without myfterie of the Trinitie : ,which the Gentilel not underffanding, they fell to hold many gods, contrary to the truth, Dent. 6.4. A like fpeech of God is after tired, in Gen. 35. 7. and in 2 Sam. 7. 23. they even God went: which another Prophet relating, faith singular- ly, God bee went, a Chronicles 17. 21. fo that though words of the plurali number be joyned, yet the pluralitie of gods is no way intended; one Scripture clearing another: yea fometime the very fame Text explaining it feilt, as Jomua 24.19. cE lobbn holies (or bey ones ) bee. The Greek tranflateth here fingularly ,'when God brought mee out from my fathers bon¡: the Chaldee otherwife thus ; And it was when the peoples wandred, (that is, committed idolatrie) after the works of their bands, the Lord applied tree unto bit fiare, out of-my fathers bufe. tithy kindnef]orleallbe thymereie, that is , thy worke ofniercie: fo love, (t John 3. 1.) is put for the benefits proceeding from love ; and wrath, (Mic. . 9. Rom. I 3.) is for punilhment proceeding from wrath. Verf. 15, /Ore thee] expofed to thy choice: fee Gen. 13. 9. good iu thine eles] that in as the Greeke tranflateth. where it pleafeth thee. Ver., 6; a thousand (hekels]or fhilings.T he word t 6 f e%G underftood in the Hebrew, is expreffed by the Chaldee interpreter : fo in 2 Sam.18.12, and 2 King.6.2 5. and the Greeke alfo hath a t 000 di- drachmer, meaning (heke/s,, for fo in Gen.23.15,16. and in many other places , the Hebrew shekels are turned in Greeke, didraehme , (or double drams :) and usually where frlver is lit down, and not the famine , feke r are undcrflood, as appeareth by Num 7.13, 5. where thefhekell áf the Santluarie na- med after , fheweth the lame to be meant before. Alf() where fhekelr are let downe , and the mettall not exprelfed, ftiver is underftood, not gold.yr a- ny other: as is manifeft by Exod.3o.13,15. com- pared with Exo. 38.25,26. Afheleel (comming of Shakal, he weighed, front whence our English rkgle and skate to weigh with, is derived) is by inter- pretation a weight , as being the moft common in payments,in which they ufed to weigh their mo- ney, Gen. 23. 16. Jer. 32.9. And the shekel of the Santivarie,weighed twemie gerabs, Exo.3o.13. and a Gerab by the Jews records,weighed f:xteengrains of barley fo the ho fheltell weighed 32o, grainer: as Mahoney fheweth in treat. ofValuations, &c. ch. t. feft.4. But the common (Eckel weighed, they fay, halfe Co much, viz. i 6o.graines; which make two drammes and 16. graines. The Chaldee calleth a shekel, Silghna and Selmsg, (from whence our Eng- life Chilling feemeth to be borrowed:) and the quantity of the commonfekel(differed not much from our floilling , as the shekel of the Sanftuarie was about two _Pilings. This Chaldeename came in use among the Jewes after their captivitie in Babylon, and was foniewhat more in weight ; then the (hekel of Mofer, which weighed 3 vs. geaines of barley : but now our wife men have added Iberia, (faith Maimony in treat. ofshekels, eh.' . feet.2.) and made the weight of it equal to the coioe called Selangla, in the time of the frond Temple.: and that Selarigb weighed 384, common graines of barley. to :by brother] that is, to Abraham, thy husband, whom thou calledlf thy brother: to hint rather thento her was it given, leffe Cufpition Mould arife that (he was defiled. be is to thee,e ve.] that is, he is, (and (hall be) thy buf. band to defend thee from injurie, and to whom thou muff profef fttbjellion. For the covering of the tics and face with a valle, was a ligne of the womans Cub- jeftion to the man, and of his power over her : Gen.24.65. 1 Cor. r r. 3,6,7,10. Or thus, it Ihall be to thee: that is, thiitgiftofmineto thy brother ;fall le a recompence of the injurie done in taking thee from the burband; The Hebrew is ambiguous;; and may in- differently be read, be or it ; and.fo the Clsaldce, though it favoureth molt this latter, laying , be- ba'd ie io to thee a covering ofhosanr, for that I didfend to take thee and havefeen:etheraná all that are eritb thee. The Gr. more plainly thus, rhefè (100o didrach pies) 15
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