ding to his eating Þ ſhall make your count for/the lamb; h( i.e.) For the eating of the whole Lamb at one Meal, accord- ing to the rule, wverſe8. 16. If the perſons be ſo few that they can« not eat it uþ without gluttony. # Or rather thus, word for word; And, or Then he ( the Maſter of that Family ) ſhall take alſo his neigh- bour next unto his houſe, he ſhall take him and his Family into Society with himſelf; they ſhall joyn together. k Or perſons, 7. e. asthe two Families ſhall conſiſt of more or fewer perſons. I ſuppoſe the meaning is, that if his next neighbours Family were of it (elf ſuf- ficient for the eating of the whole Lamb, that he ſhould paſs over that ro the next ſmall Family, which being joyned with is,mighs make up a fit number, which, as the Hebrew DoQors tell us, was ten, belides Women and Children. t(7. e. ) According tothe pro- portion which he can, or commonly doth eat. The meaning is this, The whole Lamb being to be eaten at once, and a ſufficient number being neceſſary to that end, and there being great variety in mens ſtomachsand meals, they were to give allowance for that, and to take either more or fewer perſons, as their ſtomachs were better or worſe. = 5 Your lambſhall be without blemiſh /, a male »» + + Heb. of the firſt year » : ye ſhall take ic out from the ſheep, of - y1ars
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1 Without any deformity or diſtemper of Body. Heb. perfet#; Of which ſee Levit. 22. 22, &c. Deut: 15. 21. and 17. 1, And this the very light of Nature taught the Heathens to obſerve in their Sacrifices. This property was required both to typify Chriſt, a. Lamb, without ſpot or blemiſh, Heb: 9.14. 1 Per: 1. 19. and to in- ſtrut us, that all our ſervicesto God muſt be as perfett as poffibly may be. m Partly becauſe rhat was better and more perfe& than the Female, whence a Male is oppoſed to a corrupt thing, Mal. 1. 14. and partly to tipify the man Chriſt Jeſus. » (, i.e.) A year old, when it is in his vigour and perfettion,and the fitteſt rype of Chriſt. Moſt explain itthus, Thar it was not to be more then a year old, bur it mightbe much lcfs,ſeing it might be offered to God anytime after it was eight days old, Exod. 22. 3o. Levit: 22. 27. Bur though it was then fit to be offered ro God,it was not very fit to beeaten by Men. And the Hebrew Phraſe, tbe Son of a Tear, 1eems to require a years Age, as Saulis called the Son of one year, 1 Sam: 13. 1. when he had reigned oge whole Year, And it is remarkable, that he doth
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| be ſon of this or that Tear, which might agree to one brought roots a grakeh it was much younger than a Year, but#/- Son of @ Year, w.thout any reſtri&ive Article. » Heb. and from the Goats : If you want a Lamb, you ſhall take a kid of or from the Goats. But the Particle, and is here well rendred or as it is uſed, Gen. 13. 8. Exod. 21. 17. compared with Matt. 15. 4. Pſalm 8. 4: compared with Heb. 2. 6. l 6 4nd ye ſhall keep it up ountil the fourteenth day ©
the ſame month: and * the whole allembly p of the
Numb! congregation of Iſrael (ball kill ir F in the evening 9.
o Separate it from the reſt of the Flock, and keep it in a ſafe place ; the reaſons of which ſee verſe 3. p Or rather,every aſſ-mbly,
16. to wit, every ſuch Society as meet together for cating of the Lamb.
And the Aſſembly is ſaid to kill it, becauſe one Perſon did it in their Name, and by their Appointment ; in «hich manne!:, and pon which reaſon the whole Congregation 1s ſaid to ſtone a Man, Levit: 24. 14, 16. Numb: 15. 35. Deur: 22. 21. It 1: probable ir was killed by the Maſter of the Family, who was a Prieſt in his own Family, &'c. q Heb, between the Evenings, or the two Evenings, 1.e. between the beginning and end of the Evening. The Evening 1s ' one third part of the Day,and oneof the appointed and uſual times of Devotion, as appears from Pſalm 55. 17. Dan. 6. 10. and it be- gun at their ninth, or our third Hour, as may be gathe:ed from As 3.1. For then the Sun began more ſenſibly to decline, whence that time is fitly called by the Jews the firſt Evening, and that was the time of the Evening Sacrifice ; the Jecmd Evening was when the Sun was ſetting or ſet. Between theſe ir was ro be killei. This had a reſpe& both to the time ofthe Wo-1d's Age when Chritt came; which was its Evening, or declining Time, or Ed, Heb. r. 2. and'g. 26.1 Pet. 1. 20. and tae time ofthe day in which Chriſt our Paſſover was killed, Marth: 27. 46 - 50. Mare is. 25, 33, 34 |
7 And they thail take of the biood r, and itrikzit 5
on the two ſide-poſts, and on the upper door-poſt of
the houſes wherein they ſhall eatit 7.
» This was afterwards reſtrained to the Prieſt:,but at this time it was allowed to the Matters of Families, as their preſent circum- ſtances required. 5s With a bunch of Hyſop, verſe 22.7 As a badge of diſtin&ion between their Houſes and the Egyptians, n-t ro di e& the deſtroying Angel where they were, who c.uld as well ditcer;, the Houſes as the Blood in the Night, bur to dire& their Thoughts to Chriſt, whoſe blood was hereby evidently typified, by whoſe Merits and Mediation they obtained this P:eſe' vation and Delive- Tance from Egypt, alſe well as their great deliverance from Hell. 8 And they {hall cat the fleth in that night « roſt with fire x, and unſeavened' bread y, and with bicter
herbs z they ſhall ear it,
« (5. e.) The Night following the fourteenth, and beginning the fifteenth day. The Lamb was killed uponthe fourteenth day, in the Evening or Cloſe thereof, bur it waseaten upon the fifteenth day, to wit, in the beginning of it: whence the Paſſover 1s faid to be offered ſomerimes upon the fourteenth, and ſometimes upon the fifteenth day, which may ſerve for the Reconciliation of {. me ſcemingly contrary Scriptures. x Partly for expedition, werſe 171.
and ns 906 to bea Type of the Lamb of Go1, Chriſt, and of the
ſharp and dreadful Pains which he ſuffered not only fr:m Men,but from God too, and Tom the tire of his ſo-e !2iſpleaſure againſt Si:- ners, whoſe place and perſon Chriſt ſuſtained in his Sufferings. y Partly as a Monum-nt of their ſpeedy Departure out of Egypr,
which gave them not time t» leaven their B ed, werſe 34. which is |