f Heb: any ſins of men, 3. e. either 1. of common intirmity, Or ſuch ſins as men commir through humane frailty, for if this were done knowingly and willingly,a greater puniſhment was appointed. See Lev: 6: 5, 6. Or rather 2. fins againſt men, or belonging to mea, to wir, deceits or wrongs, whereby other men are injured, of which he manifeſtly ſpeaks,as appears from wv. 7, 8. ſo thus 1s a Genitive caſe of the obje&, as Mat: 12: 31. blaſphemy of the Jpirit, (for ſo it is in the Greek ) 7s blaſphemy againſt the Holy Ghoſt, as 1t 1s called Mark 3: 28. Luke 12: 10: and power of all fleſh, Joh: 17: 2. 1S power over all fleſh, and power of ſpirit, Mat: 10i 1. 1s power over Or againſt ſpirits, Luke g- 8. and prayer of God, Luke 6: 12. is prayer di- refed unto God : and the ſpoil of the poor, 1ſa:3:14. is the ſpoil taken from the poor : and violence of the children of Judah, Joel: 3: 19. 1s Vi0- lence againſt them,as we trantlate it. g Which words may be added, either r. to expreſs a new fin, or prevaricating or dealing falſly with God, either by a falſe oath, which is a ſpecial injury ro God, or by a lie or ſimple denial that he hath taken any thing of his neighbours, which alſo God takesas a fin eſpecially concerning him- ſelf, who in ſuch caſes is the only judge of what is falſly 1aid or ſworn. See As 5. 3,4. Or 2. to aggravate the former fin, and to ſhew that ſuch injuries done to men are alſo ſins againſt God, who hath commanded juttice to men as well as religion to himſelf. But the former is more probable,both becauſe here is aram ofaronement to be offered to God for the ſpecial injury done to him,as well as ſa- tisfattion is to be made to the man whom he injured; and afpecially by comparing this with the parallel place, Lev: 6: 2, &sc.. h (:: e:) Shall be ſenſible of his guilt,or be convitted in his conſcience of his fin ; for otherwiſe this might ſeem a meer tautology,if it were only meant of being really guilty of ſin, which was expreſſed before in thoſe words when one ſhall commit any ſin, i. e« be guilty of any fin.
7 Then they ſhall confels their ſin ; which they have
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principal thereof k,and add unto it the fifth part chereof ], and give it unto him againft whom he hath creſpaſſed. ; They ſhall not eontinue in the denial of the fa, as ſuch perſons oft do,but ſhall give glory to God, and take ſhame to themſelves by acknowledging their tin, with grief and remorſe. See Lov: 5: 5. aad 6: 4. k(7.e.) The thing he took away, or what is equivalent to it. IWhich is added both as a compenſation to the injured perſon for the want of his goods ſo long,and for his trou»le for the ſuppoſed utrer loſe of them,an4d asa penalty upon the injurious dealer to diſcourage others from ſuch arremps. Qu. How doth this aggree wirh that law, | Exod: 22: 1 ? Anſ That law was made againſt notorious and obſti- nate thieves, who were legally convitted of their crime, and this againſt more modeſt thieves, whoſe neceflities might induce them to ſteal, and whoſe conſcience are affeted wirh rheir fin, 8 2 if the man have ne kinſman -, to recompenſe the treſpaſs unto, let the treſpaſs be recompenſed unto the LORD,eves to the prieſt » : belide the * ram of the
atonemens, whereby an atonement (hall be made for him-
m Which might bethe caſe commonly with Proſelytes,if not with Iſraelites. This alſo ſuppoſeth the perſon injured to be dead or gone away unto ſome unknown place, and the perſon injured to be known to the injurer. » Whom God appointed as his deputy to
lOrheave receive his dues, and take them to his own uſe, that ſo he might
Wfering.
more cheerfully and intirely devote himſclf to the miniſtration
*Lev.6::g Of holy things. This is an additional explicarion ro. that law, Lev:6: 26. and 7, 2- and ſor the ſake thereof it ſeems here to be repeated.
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9 And every || * offering o of all the holy things of
Ch: 1848. the children of [fracl,which they bring unto the pricits Deut.18.3 p ſhall be his q« : s , ;
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o Heb. every heave-offering, the heave-offering being here taken largely, ſo as to comprehend alſo the weave-offering, for both theſe was Aaron: portion. See Exod; 29. 26, 27, 28. p To wit, to offer unto the Lord by his hands. 9 (:.e.) the Prieſts. See Levit. 6. 16. -
10 And every mans hallowed things r ſhall be his :
whatſoever any man giveth the prieſt, it ſhall be * his.
r Underſtand this not of the Sacrifices, no not ſuch of them as were voluntary or vowed,as moſt underſtand it, becauſe theſe were notthe Prieſts peculiar,but a good part of them was offered to God and the remainder was eaten by the offerer as well as by the Prieſt, as is manifeſt ; bur of ſuch other things as were devoted to God, and were ſuch as could not be offered in facrafice ; as ſuppoſe a man conſecrated an houſe, or rent of it to the Lord. this was to be te Prieſts. And this reſtriftion may be eaſily colle&ed from race nature of the thing, becauſe he ſpeaketh in this and the other branches here of ſuch things as were appropriated to the Prieſts, as t11s portion, which none of the ſacrifices were. ;
11 And the LORD ſpake unto Moſes, ſaying,
12 Speak unto the children of Iſrael, and ſay unto
them, If any mans wife s go aſide t, and commit a treſ- paſs againſt him, |