._--- 0wee0IMMIAM0 °°70 - 0.00` . ----- THE wwwwwwwil Gofpel of the MEAT-OFFERING buy 5, Ter 19 1668. Levit. Cap. 2. 2. TheMincha, or Meat-Offering. THisis,mentioned in the fecond Place in that Enumeration of the Legal-Offerings, Levit. 7. 37. and treated of. in the fecond. Chapter of this Book: next after the Burnt-Ofering ; and therefore comes now to be fpoken of out of this Chapter, with help and con- ference of other Scriptures. It is called in Hebrew Mincha; concerning the Notation or Ety- mology of whichWord, which may give forne Light to the Senfe of- it, there be divers Conjetures. Some derive it from Nachab, to bring or offer ;. hence Mincha, mums : In like manner as Mizvob, pr cceptum ; from Zivah, pr ecepit. And though the Rabbins read the Plural Number Menachoth, whence force derive it from a feigned Root Mauch, that fo [ Mem ] may be a radical Letter; yet the Plural` Number is reati Minchotb in Pfal. 20. 3. It is ufed in Scripture in three Senfes. r. It is often ufed generally for any Gift or Prefent, whether to God or Men ; which confirms the Etymology before given, as Gen. 32.. 13, icy - --Gen. 43. i t r Sam. t 0.27. 2. It is ufed not only for Gifts or Prefents to Men, but for all forts of Offerings to God ; even .such Sacrifices wherein Beafts were flaw, as Gen. 4. q., where Abel's Sacrifice of the Firftlings of his Flock, is called his Mincha ; fo it agrees with uorban, and is of as large ex- tent in Signification. 3. It is frequently ufed in a narrower Senfe for an Offering of the fruits of the Earth, as contra-diftinguifhed unto Sacrifices of Living Greatuses.
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