+ the favour of your ſweet odours /+ | ; Either x. GodsſanQtuary, called Sanffuaries here, as alſo Pſal. 73. 17. and 74. 7. Jer. 51. 51. Ezek. 28, 18. becauſe there were di- vers apartments in it, each ofwhich was a SanQtuary, or, which is 21l one, an holy place, as they areſeverally called. And -your em- phatically, not mine, for I diſown and abhor it, and all the ſervi- ces you do in it, becauſe ye have defiledir. Or 2. The Temples built by you to Ido's, therefore called their Santtuaries, in oppolitt- on to Gods. Or 3. Your Synagogues. Burt the firſt is molt pro- bable, becauſe he ſpeaks of the place where they uſed to offer their ſweet odours here following. k& ( 7. e. } Not own or accept them.See Gen. 8. 21. 1ſa. 1 11, &c. [Either of the incenſe, or of your facri- fices, which, when offered with faith and obedience, are very ſwect
and acceptable to me. ; : z2 And Iwillbring the land into deſolation : and
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with Abraham will I remember, and I will remember the land z. | : | |
y To wit, ſo as to perform it, and make good all that T have promiſed in It, For words of knowledge or remembrance in Scri- pture, do moſt commonly connote afte&ion and kindneſs : of which there are many inſtances, ſome given before, and more hereafrer« 2 Which now ſeems to\be forgotten and neg'e&ed;and deſpiſed, as if I had never choſen ir to be the peculiar place of my preſence and blefling. E
4.2 The land alſo (bal be left of them, and ſhal enjoy
her ſabbaths, while ſhe lieth defol-te without them: and they ſhal accept of rhe puniſhment of their iniquity : be- cauſe, even becauſe they deſpiſed my judgments, and becauſe their ſoul abhorred my ſtatutes.
44 Ard yet forall chat, when they be in the land of
Chap. XXVII.
cheir enemies,* I will not caſt them away,: either will 1 * Deur. 4
your enemies which dwelltherein m, ſbal be aftoniſhed abhor them,to deſtroy them utterly,and to break my co- 3”: Roms
atit 2,
Ii. 26,
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» Having driven you out and poſſeſſed your places. n See Lam. $. v3
venant with them 2 for I am the LORD their God +,
+ Neither the deſperateneſs of their condition, nor the greatneſs
| fr 33 And * T will ſcatter you among the heathen, and of their ſins, ſhall make me wholly make void my covenant with
F4 4, | will draw out a {word after youo: and your land ſhal be | them and their anceſtors, butT will in due time remember them
2, 04- deſolate, and your cities wade for mm and _— __ ſake —_— " them 'in mercy.
, YI ſhall | From this place the fews take great comfort, and aſſure themſelves
"0 __ Soong follow you into ſtrange lands, and you of gp oe _ of their m_ eden wy miſery. And from
| #*.Chron. . "Aly . this, and ſuch other places, t. Pau! concludes, that the 1ſraelitiſh
| TO 24 * Then (hal the land [| enjoy her ſabbachs,as long nation, though then reje&ed and ruined, ſhould be gathered pant a | fOr, ac: As It heth deſolate, and ye bein your enemies land, eve® | 119 reftored. |
| onpliſh. then ſhalthe land refit, and enjoy her {abbaths p. 45 Burt I will for their fakes || remember the covenane
| See Job p Either r. Becauſe it ſhall berid of you who were the unprofita- | \F their anceſtors, whom I brought forth out of the land
14: 6. ble and heavy burdens thereof, under whom it ina manner groan- of Egypt, in the ſight of the heathen, that 1 might bs
| *Prov. 28. |
ed. Or rather 2. Becauſe it ſhall now enjoy thoſe Sabbarical years
of reſt from tillage, which you through covetouſneſs oft-times would not give it, as the next verſe informs us, though God com- manded it, Levit. 25. 4. ;
25 As long as itlieth deſolate, it ſhal reſt : becauſe ir did not reſt in your ſabbaths, when ye dwelt upon it.
26 And upon them that are left alive of you, I will ſend a faintneſs q into their hearts, in the lands of their enemies, and * the ſound ofa + ſbaken leaf hal chaſe
their God: I am the LORD.
[| Or rather, 70 or for them, 3. e, for their good or benefit : for ſurely, if one conſiders what is ſaid before concerning the wicked- neſs of this people, he cannot fay this deliverance was given them for their ſakes, but muſt rather ſay with the Prophet, Exzk. 36. 22, 32. not for your ſake, O houſe of Iſrael, &c. |
46 Thele are the ſtarutes, and judgments, and laws which the LORD made between him and the children
of Iſrael in mount Sinai, by the hand of Moſes. .