2,7Z 2'reparatïonsfor thegi ingof theLaw: r 35 For thefarther preparation of the people, God appoints that they Ihouldbe fan- edified andwaJh their cloatbs, v. lo. which was done accordingly, v. 14. The firnt con- tamed their moral, the latter their Ceremonial fignificative preparation for converts withGod. The former confifted in the due difpofal Of their minds unto that godly fear, and holy Reverence that becomes poor wormsof the Earth , unto whom that glorious God makes fuch approaches as he did unto them. The latter denoted that purity and holinefs which was required in their inward man. From this latter tem- porary,occafional inttitution, fuch as they, had many granted to them whilth they were in the Wildernefs before the giving of the Law, the Rabbins have framed a Baptifm for thofèthat enter into their Synagogue,a fancy too greedily embracedby forte Chrìfhan Writers, who wouldhave the holy Ordinance of the Churches Baptifin, to be derived from thence. But this walking of theircloatbs, not of their bodies, was temporary, never repeated, neither is there any thing of any fuch Baptifrn or wafh- ing required in arty Profelytes either Menor Women where the Laws of their admif- fon are I1ridly let down. Nor are there the leali footfieps ofany, fúch ufage amongft the Jews, untillafter the dayes ofJohn Baptiff, in imitation of whom it was firnt ta- ken up by fome Anti-mifhnical Robbins. Ic 36. The next thing whichMofes did by the command ofGod after he returned from, the Mount, wasto ter bounds unto it, and the people, that none of them might preis to go up, untill the Trumpet had done its long and laft founding, a fign of the de- parture of the prefence of God, v. 12, 13. And thou fhalt fen bounds unto the People, roundabout, Paying, takeheed toyourfelves, thatyou gonor up into the Mount, ar touch theborder of it : whofoever touchethtbeMount Jhallbe furely put to death : thereJhall not an handtouch it, but he(hallfurelybeffoned, orJhot through, whether it be beef! or Man it fha11not. live,when the Trumpet foundeth long, they fhallcome up to theMount. The Law, the Sanftion, and the duration of the obediencerequired, arehere reprefented. The Law expreffeth an evil prohibited both in it felf, and in the end of ir. The evil it Pelf was,goingup into, or fo much as touching by any meansthe Mountain, or the border ofit. The End wherefore this was prohibited was,' that they might not gaze, v. 2 r. Charge the People left theybreak through unto the Lord to gaze. The San- elion is death, enjoyned from the handOf Men in thefeVerfes, and threatned from the hand of Heaven, v. 2r, 24. The continuance of the obfervance was untill the Trum- pet founded long, or haddone founding, the fign of the departure ofGods fpecial pre: fence which made the place'holy only during ,Its continuance. Ø. 37. For the Law, it is laid exprelly, that the Mount was not to be touched : It might . notbe touched byMan or Beall.. Yet our Apofile treating concerning it, calls it the Mount that might be touched, Heb. 12.21. For althoughde jurewhilft that temporary command continued in force, it might not be-touched , which feemed to render it glorious, yet faith the Apoftle, it was but a carnal thing, that might de falls be touched by Manor Beall, had they not been feverely prohibited; and fo is no way. tobe compared with that Heavenly Mount Sien which we are called unto in the Wor- fhipof God under the Gofpel. st, 38. The contextureof the words in our TranÍlation teems to have forte difficulty; TYhofoever toucheth the Mount, v.12, 13. therefhall not an band touch it. 10 11 yin tali it fhould feem that by it 11 the, Mount it felf is intended, and that the Law is rein- forced in a particular caution, .that fo much as an handfhould notaouchthe Mount. But it is farmore probable that. by, it,-touch it, the Perfon,Man orBeaft that touched the Mountain is intended. And the words declare the manner how the offenddr fhould,be deftroyed t being made Anathema devoted,accuifedby his prefumptuons fin, no man was to touch him, or to lay handon him, to deliver him , left he alto contra- . &el of hisguilt. And this fenfe the enfuing words with the feries of themevìu- ceth. rintv Do't avnit Ott ;It.O`I3 i=12 11'' Ti° 1L6 57b) 171 b, that is, no hand (hall touch it, either tofave it, or to punifh it, but fIoning it (hallbe frosted, or tbrufiing through it(hall be thruf! through; whether Man or Beaft, it_Pall not live. Let none think by layinghand on it to deliver it': whence Aquila renders Prim 7T by boJíeei, He (hall be Hain ordeftroyed cum impetu, &horrors, with force and terror, all being tocall' Drones ät him, or to hot him through with arrows, or thruft him through with darts. So Aben Ezra, nap si t 511711n157ot 71 1tU9l'7 t=9í5 biI 55'? t=ytOti i='pri 1%1111' . p¡irn í=1 010a172. The meaning is, Men 'hall not gather about hint to take him, but thole that fee him,fhall (lane him from the place of their Station. And if hebe afar ri they jball(hoot bim through with arrows. Touching
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