, ·wsz ' · .s ,.. ~ Wannii=;;::O::;:.:= ....,- · .. 'e--Lik.!1Vi[; ~lfq-] -It hath rdat-ion to ~he f~rmer infiance - ~r-4 .. --- ---- - hraham. · · JPM not Rahab the Harlot] Lyramm thinks that the t word*Ha~~~h11h, } for Hllriot was her pro,per n_ame; or.hers think it only fignifieth } that_lhe was an Hoftefs, or YtUt~aller; fo the Chaldee paraphrafe rendereth it, awoman that b,Jpt aTavern, Nn' piJ1 Nnn, y1.1· vdiiGd. 'iT!!VJ'ol(,€oTv.c!.V; the Caldee word being formed out of the . ' Greek, they derive the'original ZoN /i H from ZuN, which fignifieth to feed, though Gthers derive it from ZA N .1\ H, he plt!lyed the Adulterer; and they think it altogetht:r improbable for a Pfince of Judah to marry a commrm Harlot: But the Article n ?rGu"" thi!tt Harlot, fo commonly ufed in Scripturt·, and becau.fe this is fiill repeated as anoted circumfiance,and the Syriac hath a word that properly and only fignifieth H,zr/ot ,feem to-infer that lhe was indeed a woman ofa vitious & infamous life ,and 'tis but folly to excufe that which God would have made k.!townfor his own glory. Probably lhe might be both an Hofte[s, and an HP~rlot too, as many times foch are ofan evilfame : She lived From her parents, no mention is made of husband and children ; if her pretence had not been to keep a ) place of emerrainmmt, 'cis not likely that the Spies would turn into an open Brothel-houfe, unlefs ignorant ofic,or by divine providence guided thither. Iufiifiedby \\?orkJ,J That is, approved to be fincere, and honor.. ed by God before all the Congregation, there being a fpecial charge to fave her, and her houfhold, when all her Countrymen were Gain, and lbe being after joyned in marriage with a Prince ofIfrael. When fhe had received the me'[fengers, andfont them gut another way?] The .frqry is in the fecond ofI ojbua. But is not this Act quefiionlefs ? Is it not treachery ? Did the not fin againfl: that love and fairhfulnefs that fhe owed to her Country? Abulenjis thinketh l fhe had not finned, iflhe had betrayed the Meffengers; but vainly, and againfi the dired: tdl:imony of Scripture : lhe finned not, be– caufe lhe ad awarrant and particular revelation fro~ God, that the Land ofCana11n, and fo her ~own,.was given t~ the I{raelites, *Sola cognitia ) lofo.~. 9, 1 o, I I, &c. And* bemg gallied to the fatth, lhe was to vei quamDeuJ leave her Gentile relation,and to be amaffed into one body with the animo ejus in- . didit eam e:xi~ met a_culpa t~uquam[olu tam cnmmuni Lege ,quamvu ad-eum u[que diem obftriflrz fieiffet fuupof pu!arzbus ub•tame-a co-optata[uljfct in corpus Eccle{ld!,nova conditio manumiffio fuit ajurefoci· ctatu If"" jrm[e dcvinciri'(#Ur ~i-ves. Calvin in Jofuua 1.: 4. - . J Xx z people
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