Chap. 36. e ftiExpoftiontapmtheBaokofJo it. Verf. 14. 211 clean. The word (is) is not in the original text, and we may turn Inuit(); make the fupplyby a word fignifying to take away ; Their life, rr,5. Pik., is takenaway among the unclean, that is, they (hall die like the LnædosaC!T ja worfl of (inners, they (hall make no better an end, than the un- -,Cuss gr,i;,I clean and profane, no better than the moil foul and filthy SodOine, concubi:u lrbt- ices, as the original imports. For dinofo mu- The word whichwe render unclean, hath a doable, yea, a lierùfungun contrary fignification,holy and unholy, clean and unclean. They rut. Id whoare holy onely in name, are molt unholy in hears.and life. The DTI rá Scripture often by the fame word expreffeth things of utrnof} op- ftgnifi'.arfan- poRtion ; fo here he calleth thofe who are moil unholy,by a word ETum profs. which fignifieth holinefs .the Hebrew faith, their life is among nump ttutum, the Sodomites. Mr. Broughton tranllates, and the r life withform. fcortatorem. eators. Sodomites, who are the mail unclean and filthy finnërs, Ae£lefrmula- worfe than fornicators, areexpreffed by a word, by this word Futie:s.which alto fgnïfieth holy, or holy ones ( Peat. 23. !7. ) There ex pravi hall not be aSodamrte, or, an holy one among you ; and therefore rareanimi con- as we read of Sodomites in the land, who are (inners againil the ùngir,quodho the lawof nature, (1 Kings 14. 24.) fo according to that law m,neaf "tfi, u: of clltofer, we read, 1 Kings 1 s. t 2. and Chapter 22.46. as aY- ,l,° l;ropritient fo 2 Kings 23.7. of the detlroying of the houles of the Sodom, magnanimi Pf% ires, and of the removing, of Sodomitesout of the land. Sodom- minifeflum. ires being themofl abominableof all unclean ones, how unclean Again. are they whole life is among them, or whole life is takenaway wi h therm The Spirit of God doth rightlycompare hypocrites to Sodomites and filthy perfons, becaufe it proceeds from the heat of fame bale lull or o:her that any arebypoctites, Tis pro- per to thofe who are magnanimous, or ofnoble ffirirs,tobe op ,n, clear- hearted and ingenious. Their life is with the unclean. Hypocriteshave a great affecati©n tobe numbered among the clean and holy, and pofiblyi they have been, or -may be, high in the opinion of men, for holinefs, for very Sain-s ; But their life (hall beamong the Sodomites, or the unclean. Itbein a (name to exprefs the abomination of that fort of finners, by a word proper to them, the Scripture (by anEuphemifine )calls themholy ; we tranflate the Scripture fenfe, and; call them unholy cr unclean Their life is among the unclean, among Sodsmites. Thusas the d eath
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