.654 Chap.31. An Expojition upon the Look of Jos. verf.3z, lid not lodge in thethee¡; but I opened my door to the traveler; that is, I caufed my door to (taud open, or my doors were readi- ly opened when ftrangers came by. The Hebrew is, I opened my door to the way: As if ?oh had fayd, Ibuilt my heufe toward the high way, that firangers whopaffrd by, might fee it and come in. 1 was not afraidmy boutefhculdRand pen ro vites. Some build in a corner, or in acovert of trees and woods out of the common road, that they may be our of the danger of Entertainment. But ( faith lob ) 1 openedmy door to the w.:y; wee tranflate, t, the tra- veller, that is, to the way-faring man, or the man that travells by the way. The ftranger in the former part of the verte, and the traveller here are the fame ; He that travells from his ow.ne home is a ftranger wherefoever he comes. We call our neereft friends and relations Orangers when they travel from their owne houses to ours. I opened my door to the traveller. Hence note. Firft, Strangers and travellers arefabjt1 to hard/hip, even to lodge in theftreets and openaire, unleffè [owe open their doores andgive them lodging. When 7accb travell'd from his fathers houfe, he lodged under 113 frgnifcat the Canopy of heaven,and hadnothing but the earth for his bed, peregrrnari et and a ¡tone for his pillow. The Hebrew word which lignifies a rmere ",(11114g ranger, comes from aroute, fignifying to f rare ; And the reafon .pvvidi fermer of it is alligned from the condition of ftrangers, theybeing fub- fitntperegiJr. jedt to manydangers, and fo by confiquence ro many fearer. Doubtleffe, the Spirit ofGod forefaw that strangers were expo- fed to many inconveniences, and therefore gave coition to his ancient people the Jewes to trente thofe fayrely who being Orangers by birth and Nation, fhoutd defire to dwell amorg them ( Exod. 22.21.) Thou (halt neither vex .a (franger, nor op- preffe him, forye wereftrangers in the land ofEgypt. And agaire { Levie. 19. 33, 34) Ifaftranger fojourne with thee in your lard, ye¡bball not vexhim,but theftranger that dwelletb withyou (hall be at one borne amonr.ft you, and thou !halt love him as thy ¡elfe, &tç. Thefe cau;ionary lawes made for Orangers (that is, for profdytes of other rations converted to theJewifb Religion) doe more -then intimate what hard rneafure ftrangers ufe to find and mete with in the world. And
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