878 Chap. 42. ,finExpofition upon the Book of J o B. Verf. 8. lubenturfep- Secondly, It was a great iacrihce, it we confider the number, tern tauros,&e. feven bullock!, and fever rams. One bullock was a tac.itce, and immolare, quia one ram was a facrifice_, but here God commanded feven of perfetliJ/imum each. Seven is a.number.of erfe&ion and or plenitude fe- eflfacrificium p P ; chrißi,unaex- ven is a great number, and feven is a perfect number : ìt is often piatione omnis úfed myttically . or enigmatically, to note perfebtion. The Lord peccatadelens. made all things in fix days, and retied the feventh ; feven days Perfefias enim made up a complear week, and feven years are a week of years. uumermfepte' We read of A candleflick all of gold, with a bowl upon the top of Brent. P. it, andhis feven lamps thereon, and feven pipes to the feven lamps septemofl nu_ which were on the top thereof (Zech. 4. 2.) We read all() of the meras plenitu feven fpirits (Revel. z. 4.) and of feven goldencandleftickr (Rev: dins &perfe.. x.. z 2.) Thefe were mytterious [evens, and there are many more mentioned in Scripture, which co inuíl upon, would make too abfolutam ex- ' p piationem great a digre(lion from the purpofe of the text under hand, where eemilTianam we have feven bullocks and feven rams, which make up and imply eulpe eorum a great and perfed facrifice ; as the law of Moles altodirected defrgnabar,Ett in tome cafes (Levin, 23. i 8,) And ye (hall offer with the bread interim in om nibas f even lambs without blemt f. So ( Chron, t 5.26.) TYhen the tile veteribur Lordhelped the Levites that bare the Arks of the Covenant of the ad unieum Lord , they offered feven bullocks , and feven rams. Again CT rßifacri,f- (.2Chron, 29. 2I.)They brought feven bullock., and feven rams, mum cuusila 1 and (even lambs, and feven he-goats for a fin-offering , for the erant imab.o 7 xsmbrarefpicie- kingdom,and for thefanCluary,and forJudah. Balaam incited and .batur. ti cfc, hired to curfe Ifrael Paid unto Balak (Num. 2I. z.) Bu ldme bere fevenaltars,&prepare me bere [even fevenoxen,and rams.He would needs imitate them whom he defired toruin, andoffer a full fa- crifice that he might curie them fully. The greaten facrifice for number that we read of, wasat the dedicationof the Temple, where the offering of the King was two and twenty thoufand oxen, and an,hundred and twenty thoufand fheep(t Kings 8.63.) We read alto of great facrifices(z Chron. 29. 21. 2 3. Chron, 17.j/. andChap. 30. 24.) There were greater facrifices than feven, yet feven was a great facrifice. Some Interpreters conceive, that every one of the three was -tooffer feven bullocks,and feven rams; that had been a verygreat facrifice, but in that the Text is filen%. The law of clfofes'appointed (Levit, 4. 3.) .hat if a Prier} Lomtnicted a fin of ignorance, he (build bring a young bullock, without blemi fh nnto theLord for a fin-offering, The law required no
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