E R. íq., IS. Epiifle tÚ the H,E B R EWS. away with the Rod that had the Shem Ifampliorafb written in it. And the like Rory they havein a book about the ads ofMofer, which Aben-Ezra rejeason Exod. ¢. 2p. This handofSaban indeath, manifetting it tobe panai, is that whictykeeps them in bondage andfear all their days. Fourthly, they fuppofe that this Angel ofdeaths ttátat power over men even after death. One horriblepenalty they fancy in particular that he inflicSts on them, which is let downby Elias in his Tifbbi nt'tapn Stan, out of the MidraJb ofRabbi Ifaac t(re fonof Parnar; for when a man, as they fay, departs out of this world, nap 'ty 1tÚ1+1 rfl rt i2elt) 211, the Angelofdeath comes and fits Upon his grave. And he brings with him a Chain, partly ofiron, partly offire ; and making the foul to return into the body, he breaks the bones, and torments varioully both bodÿ and foul for a feafon. This is their Purgatory ; and the belt of their hopes are, that theirpunifhment after this life[hall not be eternal. And this various interell of Sathan. in thepower ofdeath, both keeps them in difmal bondage all their days, and puts them upon the invention of feveral ways for their deliverance. Thusone pf their folemn Prayers on theday ofExpiation is to bedelivered from 11711 Wan, or this punilh- suent of the devil in their graver towhich purpofe alto they offer a Cock unto him for his pacification. And their prayer to this purpofe in their Berachoth is this 1=M iw ruvim rnnyto +rö í10 nryo rn rs i rnyi rtrrut th rii "tal l In; 11p tltw tollntol, That it may pleafi thee, (goodLord) to deliver us from evil Decrees or Laws, frompoverty, from contempt, from allkind ofpunifbments, from thejudgment of hell, and from beating in the grave, by the Angel of death. And this fuppofition is in like manner admitted by theMabumetans, who have alfo this prayer, Deus nailer libera nos ab Angelo interrogante tormentofepulchri, à viamala. And many fuch lewd imagina- tions are they now given up unto, proceeding from their ignorance of the Righte- oufnefs ofGod. But yet from thefe apprehenfions of theirs, we may fee what the Apo- file intended in this expreflion, calling thedevil him that had the power ofdeath. xai á+aN,ti.6'ry 7,7.; leoy Et liberaret ipfos, hor, quotquot, quicunque ; and free thofe 'AaruNdy9. who. 'A+asdv7v, is to difmiff, difcharge,free; and in the ufeof theword, unto the Accti- fative cafeofthe Perron, the Genitive of thething is added or underflood. 'Aaaadolra as vim,Ifree theefrom this. Tavrns áaaoadíít,v as Tit ?t9o, doi,s Ariflopb. to deliver thee , from this eyefore. And fometimes the Genitive call ofthe thing is expreffed, where the Accufative ofthe perfon is omitted. 'Avaa>dzlne t5ße, that isneed, tofreeor deliver one fromfear ; as here theAccufative cafeof the perfon is expreffed, and the Genitiveof the thing omitted. 'Avaradey ,dv,e, that is ßóße or b otine, to deliver them, that is from 'death, or, from fear becaufeofdeath. ,'Evoxor beano d',odos : vox& is obnoxius, obJìritïur, reus, damnas. He that is legally °Eroxer. obnoxious, fubjeíf, liable toany thing ; that is, Law,Crime, Judge, Judgment, Pu- . nifhment, inall which refpeds the word is ufed. He that is under the power of any . Law is eox(g- rs P6PV3 fubjeei unto its authority and penalty. See Matth. 9.2 t, 22. chap. 26.66. Mark 3. 29. r Cor. t t. 27. James 2. to, Now thed`+>,.ía, fervitude or Gehda. bondage here mentioned is poenal, and therefore art men faid to be svoxo,, obnoxious unto it. 263 Verfe 14, 15. Far as mach thenas (or, feeing therefore that) the óhildrenare (were in common)partakers offlefh andblood, he alfo himfelflikewife ( after the fame manner) took part (did partake) ofthefame ; 'that through (by) death he might d f ro, (make void the authority of) him that had the power ofdeath, that is, the devil. Anddeliver (free, difcharge) themwho through fear ofdeath wereall theirlife timefrbjetl tobondage. In the former Verfes,,;as was (hewed, the Apofile declared the neceflity that there was on the part of God, intendingto bring manyfins untoglory, toconftitute fuch an ionion betweenthem and theCaptain of theirfalvation; as that it mightbe jult'forhim to fuffer in their [lead. In theft heproceeds tomanifèli in particular what that Nature is, in the commonparticipation whereof their union defigned did conflit, wherein they were all ofone ; andwhat were the efpecial reafons why the Lord Christ was made partaker ofthat nature,, This coherence of theft Verfes Chryjojfom briefly gives us, k'frà
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