574 A Commentaryupon theGofi)el Chap.26. Verfe 7. An Alabafer box of very precious, &c. ] Pliny tel- leth us, That they were wont to keep the moil cotlìy oint- In T1 a!ta. ments in boxes of Alaballer. And Herodotue reckonech 4044 ciTdPcfO JP, an Alabafter box cf ointment, among the precious things, that Cambyfes the Perfian fent for a prefent to the King of _Ethiopia. ultary thought nothing too coftly for thrift. See the Notes on /oh. 12.3. Verfe 8. They had indignation :] Not all, but one of them was difpleafed , viz. Indas , (as John explains cMat- thew) who yet was of Inch efleem and authority amongft the Difciples, that what he did, they are all faid to do, and poflibly they might, Tome of them, be drawn to do the fame by his example, and upon fo fpecious a pretence of charity to the poor. To What purpofe is this Wafle ? ] All fcems to be loft to fl fh and blood , that is laid out upon Chrift , his fervants Aug desiv,Vei and fervices. The people ù idle, faid Pharaoh, when they would needs go worfhip in the wilderneff . And Seneca jeers the Jews for walling a fevertth part of their lires on a weekly Sabbath. Verfe 9. For this ointment might have been fold. j True, and better it had been fold, had it been a faperfluous and idle ex- pence; fuch as is now-adaies ordinary in fine-clothes, fum- ptuous feafts, over {lately buildings, &c. But here it is a fenf- lefle fentence that Iudas uttereth, out of dìfcontent only, that he miffed of fo fat a morfel. Avarice made Indus, as it didSe- sen. janus, think all which he acquired not, to be loft, uicquidnor, acquiritur, damnum Verfe so. why trotable ye the Woman?] Chrift will patronize his well-doers , and flick to them though all forfake them, 2 Tim.4, t 6,17. He many times pleads for them in the eonfcien- ces oftheir greateft enemies, who fpend more thoughts about fuch,then the world is aware of :and arc afraidofthename ! God, whereby they arecalled, Dent. 28.9,10. Vcrfe 11. The poor ye have alwaies with yon ] To try and }at.6.1. to exercife your liberality, yea your julttce, as the Syriack calleth it, Prov. 3.27. Withhold not thy goods prom thefe own- ers thereof. But me ye have not altvaies ] Chrìft dwelt in the flefh, as ina tent or booth, ,oh. s .14. He fojourned here for a while only ; his abode
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