-------. .._ Chap. 24. An Fxpftrion tip.n the Iiopksf o i3. V'erri, 7 0. 533 end take away the fseafefrom the hwygry. Some render, they take away the earns of corne, that is the 17Z7r gleanings which the poor have pickt up and gathered together ; tegrun onfolt edtpia. They take away the very gleaning from thern,& that twowa; es, caio ¡picas eicg either, Firtf,they will not Puffer the pacre to gleane after their meiiorú m.ttta'f; reapers This is to take away the Cares ofcorn from she hungry; . itasñl;n: fuck is the cruelty offotne, that they will not fuf er the poore to gleáne in their fields or, fecondiy,w .en the hungry have g'eaned a few cares ofcorn, they take all away from them.Againft which cruelty to the poor theLaw of/Worts proaaided,Deut. 24. 19 2c; 2I.Yvben thou cuttefl down thineharvef in thy (i lei, andhaft for, cot a fheafe in the field, thou (halt not gee againe tofetch it, it (had befor thelb-anger, for thefatberleffe,and the widdow, that the Lord thyGod may bl. ße theein all the werke of thine hands. Now if the forgotten fheafe muff be left for the poore, furely the fcattered cares muff not be raked up from them. We have an eminent in- fiance of the liberty of gleaning in the fecond Chapter ofRath. Againe, By the fbeafe which ie taken away, we may underhand that little corne which the poor man hath of his own growing in his owne field. And Tub (peaks in the fingular number, the fheafe, implying that the poor man bath not many (heaves, his corne makes but a (heafe as it were; as the poor man in the parable (2Sam. t t, i a.) had but one lambe, he had not a flock, fo the poor man bath but a fheaf, hebath not many fheaves,and (hocks ofcorn,he bath not barnes full, as the rich man is defcribed,Luke 12. he bath but a fheafe, yet they take that away'. Thirdly, The word which we tranflate, f eafe,fignities a mea Eft a,ete¡n Go° fure which did contains a convenient quantity for a dayes provi mea(are fion;This meafure the ?ewes call an Omer (Ex,d. i 6: a 6.) 7 hie yen . °.a 1". trran drrner.- io the thing which the Lordhath commanded,gatherof it everyman fum {;a,,;u to bid eating an Omer for every man according to thenumber e f your vdllum hominis perfons, takeye every manfor them which are in bid tents, ye /hall ca,'ere poteit,er° have anOrer for every man; So that anOmercontains a conve g? re:effaria n nient quantity for one mans provifion for a day, then the fenfe v;uf'n ab(fa!e- y rarr fameliaic arifeth thus, they take away the Omer from the hungry; that is, quern forte 6' they take away metre neceffaryfood or daily breadfrom the hungry. l,oítrs m`nate.. The poor man bath but an Omer, juft enough for a day, as our ('mcoáetlis /le Saviour teacheth us to. pray, rive rya this day our daily bread, or "'n° 1"Lore coop legerunt the P;n .
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