by this wickedneſs, either becauſe ſuch perſons did, for the cover of ut off the occaſions of further fil-hineſs. Or rather. 2. improperly, their Idolatry, come into God's Sanftuary, ' as the reſt did; See for touching her or lying with her ;
Lev. 15. 31. or becauſe the Sanftuary was, and was faid to be defiled by groſs abominations committed in that city or land where Gods Sanctuary was : or becauſe by theſe ations they did pronounce and declare to all men that they eſteemed the SanCttuary and Service of God abominable and vile, by prefering ſuch odious and pernicious Idolatry before it. 'g Partly by deſpiſing it themſelves, and parcly by diſgracing it to others, and giving them occaſion to blaſpheme it, and to abhor the true religion, becauſe they ſaw it deſerted and condemned by thoſe that beſt knew-it ard once embraced it. |
4 And if the people of the land do any ways hide their eyes from the man b, when he giveth of his ſeed
unto Molech, and kill him not:
h ( i.e.) Wink at his fault, and forbear to accuſe and puniſh him. Compare 4#s 17. 30.
5 Then I will ſet my face againſt that man, and * againſt his family i, and will cut him oft, and all that 0 a whoring after him, to commit whoredom with
Molech, from among their people.
; (7.e.) Either, r His poſterity, whom God threatned to puniſh for their farhers Idolatry, Exod. 20. Or 2. his peovle, as that word isuſed, Jer.8.3. Mic 2.3. to wit, the people of that Jand, who by rheir connivance make themſelves guilty of his ſin, v. 4. Or 3. his diſciples and followers, who are oft called the ſons or children of their maſters. And ſo it may ſeem to be explainedin the following words, o/ that go
'* Exod:
20: F:
a whoring after him,as the firſt clauſe which concerns the head or chief
perſon himſelf, 1-wil ſer my faceeagainſt that man, is explained by theſe words, I will cnt him off. |
6 And * the foul thateurneth after ſuch as have fami- liar ſpirits and after wizards, to. go a whoring after them k, I will even ſet my face againſt that ſoul, and will cut him off from among his people. .
k To ſeek knowledge or counltl or help from them.
7 XK Sandtifie youe {elves therefor for I 2m the LORD your God.
8 And ye ſhall keep my ſtatutes, and do them ; I aw the LORD which ſanctifie you 7,
* Chap: I9: 31;
*Chap: 11: 44. & 19: 2: 1 Pex, I; 16:
Againſt Curlers of
26. Soothſayers to be
2 * Apain, thou ſhale fay to the children of '
' 7. 12, Exod. 20. 18. Revel. x. 12. and for touching, as John 20. 25, 29, | 2. That aQ is expreſſed by words parallel te this of ſeeing as by
re, and be ye holy:
| :neir genuine children, but baftards, and theretore excludedfrom
mixing the Blood which God would have ſeparated, and making the ſame ©Off-ſpring both his own immediate Child and his Grand-
child. #* 13 *If a manliealſo with mankind, as he lieth with — |
a woman, both of them have commitcted an abomina- ton : they (hall ſurely be put to death r; their blood [hall be upon them. .
r Except the one party was forced by the other. See Deut. 22. 25, "I 14 And * if a man rake a wife, and her mother, it * Chap; , is wickednefs 5: they ſhall-be burnt with fire, both he 28: 17e ; and they ?, that there be no_ wickedneſs among you. _
5 (1.e.) Abominable and extraordinary wickedneſs, as the fingularity of the puniſhment ſhewerh. 7: Either, or both or all of them, if ; they conſented to. it. .
15 * And if a manlie with a beaſt, heſhall ſurely be ,,,__.., put to death 2: and ye (hall flay the beaſt s. De
% Partly for the prevention of monſtcous Births, partly to blot 27: 21; out the memory of ſo loathfome a-crime, ani partly that by ſa ſevere a puniſhment of that creature which was only a pſlive inſtru« ment to mans {in, men might be aſſured that a more dreadful puniſhe -
T0" than corporal | death | was relcryed for them, if they repeated 16 Andif a woman approach unto any- beaſt, and _ ;; « lie down thereto, thou (halt kill the woman and the ::- 41 beaſt : they (hail ſurely be pur to death ; * their blood ſhall be upon them. | ron: I7 * And if a man ſhalltake his fifter, . his fathers *Chap:18: | daughter, or his mothers daughter, and ſee hernakedneſfs ' x, and ſhe ſee hisnakedneſs, it i-a wicked thing, and they ; ſhall be cut off in the ſight of their people y 5 he hath | uncovered his filters nakednefs, he ſhall bear his iniquity, x Szeing is here underſtood, either x. properly, and fo God would
1
for 1. the ſence of ſceing 15 ofc put for other ſences, as for hearing, Gen. 42 1. compared with 4#s |,
uncovering or diſcovering, and by knowing, Gen. 4. 1. 3. Soitis dire] explained, in the following words, he hath uncovered his fiſters nabodreſ?, which manifeſtly fignifies lying with her. 4+ Ir 15 nor probable thar an equal puniſhment would have been appointed to an-1immgdeſt ſighr, as to the higheſt a& cf filthineſs. 5. Nor ſeems there to be any reaſon why this crime ſhould be reſtrained ro this: rather than to any other relations, when it was 35 grear, yea a greater crime in ſome other relations. y (. e.) Publickly, for the terrour and caution of orhers. ; ; plc
18 X Andifa man (hall lie with a woman z having *Chap: 18: her ſickneſs a, and ſball uncover her nakednefs, he hath 19- See + diſcovered her fountain 6, and ſhe hath uncovered the Ch:15:24: fountain of her blood : and both of them (hall be cut off ,,,;.*
from among their people. > naked.
z Wirtringly and willingly. See on Lev. 15. 24. and 18s 19. ' 4 (5.2. ) her monthly inficmity. 6 Oc her iſſue. Thus the fontumn' of Blood in Mark 5. 29. is the iſſue of blood, Luke $: 44: the fountain'pur for the ſtream; the cauſe tor rhe effe@, which is common. " -*
19 * And thou halt not uncover the nakednef of thy , mothers ſiſter, nor of thy fathers fiſter : for he uacovereth his near kin : they ſhall bear cheir iniquity. ,
20 * Andifa man ſhall lie with his uncles wife, he bath uncovered -his uncles nakedneſs ; they ſhalt bear their ſin, they ſhall die chaldlefs c. 3s |
c (i: e: ) Either ſhall be ſpeedily cur off ere they can have a child Oy that inceftuous conjunttion, that the remembrance of rhe fat may be blotted out : or, if this ſeem a leſs crime than moſt of the former © © inceftnous mixtures; becauſe the relation is more remote, and there= * fore the Magiſtrare ſhall forbear to puniſh it with death, yet they - ; ſhall either have:no .children from tuch an unlawful bed, or their children ſhall die before them, #9: 9. 11, 12: or ſhall not be repured +
Ch. 18:
I2, 13.
* Chap: 18:14