86 /f'.1/1/11d181NWID%1//A GENESIS XXI!!. Ió 19 0 21 22 23 belcevingit,was fulfilled,as theApo &le obfeerveth, Heb. i i . II, 12. thy feed] Ifaaks pofterity, Gen. z i . t 2. the gate]for,gates, (as tree for trees, fee Gen.3.1.) and by gates, he meaneth cities, and all ftrong deténced places : as the sore (or entring) of the gate, 2 Sam. t o.8.is explained to be, the sere ofthe titre, r Chro.19.9 And at the gates of cities, Were publike places of judgement, Daut.22.15. Iob 31.2 r. So the ftrength and dominion of the enemies is meant here,by the gate ; and dominion o- ver them,by inheritsnce ,Lev.z5.45.Pfal.82.8. The Grecke alto tranflateth it eities:and fo in Gen.24. 6o. hie] or, their enemies, meaning enemies of the feed,which word being put for children, (as the Chaldee tranflateth it) may have with it a word, fingular or pl stall, and fo the Scripture fpeaketh indifferently : as laying of the people , it mm, 2. Chr. 10.5. or they went, I King.' 2.5. it rejeye4 2 King. II.20. which another Prophet writing faith, they rejoyced,2Chron.23.2r. SosKing.2i. 24.With 2 Chron.33.25.and 2 King.23.3o.with 2 Chron.36.j. The reafon hereof is , becaufe a multitude is many,and yet as one: thbrefore,that which in Mat.20.35. is (ochks)amulritude,in Mar. 10.48. is ( polloi) many. Verfi 8. in thy feed] heere the word feed, is in fpeciall meant of one,that is,Chrifi,Ga1.3.16.18. who was both of the feed of David,and fonne of Abraham according to the flefh, 11.0111. 1.3. and alfo God over all blef edfor ever. Roui. 9.5. in whom the nations doe bleat themfelves , and glory , Ier.4.z. Pfal. 72.17. b1efe them elves] that is, apply thy faith the bidingof Chrift to them- (elves, and foprofelfc it : or, (hall be blef d, ás the Greeke tranflatethit, and as the promifé was be- fore made in that forme, in theHebrew, Gen. 52.3. and after in Genefis 28.14. Verf 19. Beerfóieba]which the Greeke interpre- teth, the well of the oath : See before in Gen. 21.31. VerC2o. Mikah] called in Greeke Mdcha :Thee was Abrahams brothers wife,Gen.s 1.2.Ofwhofe off - fpring, Abraham now hcareth glad tidings, unto whom he after fendeth for a wife for his fonne Ifsak Geu.z4. Verf: 25. Vz] or Yrs : in Greeke Oox. In this 4 land lob the patient dwelled,Iob.1.s. There was allo another Vz of Aram,Gen.5 0.23. and againe Vz of Seir, in Edonis countrey,Qen.36.28. Buz] in Greeke Baux, of him came that learned young man Elrbn Iob.32.2. Buz dwelt by his el- der brother Vz in Arabia, ler. 25. zo. 23.24. Kimmel] in Greeke Kamonel, of Aram] the Greeke faith , of the Syrians. There was an Aram before of Sem, Gen. 50 22. Aram through- out the Bible is turned in Greeke Syria , and Syri- ans: as Mizraimis /Egypt ,and CafiEthiopia. Verl2z.Kefed]orCefd: inGreeke Chazad. Chazo] in GreekeNazsu. Pildajlt]in Greek Fhaldes. Iidla h] in Greeke Iledoph. Verf.23. Bethnel]] in Greeke Batbouej, of whom fee after,Gen.24.1 5. Rebekah] or Rebekka;in Hebrew Ribkh : thee became wife to Ifaak Abra- hams fonne, Gen.24. a 5.67. And for that tank chiefly, is this genealogy here let down. Sarahs deatTi. Verf. 24. his concubine] to weer , Naelurs ccecu- bine. The Hebrew Pitegejb, (whereof theGreeke Pallakis, and Latine Pellex is borrowed, whichwe call a Concubine) fignifieth an hale wife, or a divided andjiconday wife: which was a wife for the bed, (and therby differing from an whore) but not for honour, and government of the family, (as King Solomons wives were Princefjèr, but histencubiner not fo, t King.s1.3.) neither had their children ordinarily any right ofinheritance,but had gifts of their father, as Gen.25.5,6. Such a ccncubine was Hagar toAbraham, yea and Keturah his Co. cond w f, is called a eoncubine,Gen.s5. s.6. s Chr. 1.32. And Bilha and Zilpha wereconcubines to Iaakob,Gen.3 5.22. And many other men of note had allo concubines t as Calcb,s Cbron.2.46.48, Manalles, 1 Chron. 7.14. Gedeon, Iudg. 8.31. David, 2 Sam.5. i 3. Solomon, 2 Kings i.3. R6- boam, a Chron.11.2 5. and among the heatheni, as Eft.2.s4. Dan.5.3. The Hebrew Do &ors fay, wives were taken in Ifract, by bits of Dowry, and fa tonne efpoufals; but concubines. , without either of bosh: Maimony treat. of Kings, rb.4.S.4. So among the Gentiles,as appeareth by that laying in the Poet, left thin report gee 8f me, that I have given thee mine owne filter, rather fora concubine, then in way of ma- trimony, if Ifbouldgive ber without a dowries Plau- tus inTrinmmm. Likewife among the Greckes,the Orateur faith, wee have concubines, for day& mnex- binefbip (orreféofthe bed ; ) and wives fir to bringut forth children legitimate, and faithfully to beeepe ebe things ios the family, Demofihenes in Orat. againfi Neera. Tebach] in Greeke, Tabec: of him and his brethren we find no mention in other Scrip- , ture. Tachafh] in Greeke Toche,. Maacab] in Greeke Mecba. 24 CHAP. XXIII. i, The age and death ofSarah, for whom Abraham mourneth ; 3, and purchafeth of the formes of Cheth a.place for her burial: r o, which. Epbron rootedhave giren him, 13, but Abraham would not receive with- out giving the feel price. I7, So the field and cave in Macpelab, bemmmetb Abrahams pofleffion; and there he,burieth Sarah. 1 f] ANd the life of Sarah was an hundred yeeres, and twenty yeeres, and feveci yeeres: theft were the yeeres of the life of Sarah. And Sarah dyed in Kirjath- Arba, the fame it Chebron, in the land of Canaan : and Abraham came to mourne for Sarah,and to weepe for her. And Abraham Rood-up,from before his dead : and fpake unto the fonnes of Cheth , laying. I am a flranger and a fojourner, with you: give mee a poll'ttlion of a burying_ place, I 2 3 4 ASIMPrG//N///ista11111p11
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