m As common or unhallowed food, rhough they be of the ſame kind with the ſacrifices which are offered to God. n Becauſe there was no holineſs in ſuch meart for which rhe unclean might be exclu- ded from it. "ver: 16, 23 * Only be fure that thou eat not the blood: for Tthb. be the blood #: the life 0, and that thou mayeftnor eat the + Heb fout: t life with the fleth. 4 " o Of which ſee on Ger; 9.4. Lev. 17. 11.Ths animal life depends Ucbyo V.pon the blood. |
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24 Thou fhalt not eat it, thou ſhalt pour it upon the earth as water.
25 Thou fhaltnot eat it, that it may go well with thee, and with thy children after thee ; when thou ſhalt do that which is right in the ſight of the LORD.
26 Only thy holy things p which thou haſt, and thy vows thou (balt take, and go unto the place which the LORD hal ckuſe.
£ "Hp: before, vez. 6. 12, 17. which thou haſt conſecrated | to God. p11 27 And * thou fhaltofferthy burnt-offerings,thefleſh and * E<Y: *: the blood, upon the altar of the LORD thy God,and the 5? *3* if blood of thy ſacrifices ſhal be poured out upon the altar of the LORD thy God, and thou ſhalt eat the fleſh 9. 9 Excepting what ſhall be burned to God's honour, and given to the Prieſt according to his appointment. |
28 Obſerve and hear all theſe words which Icommand thee, that it may go well with thee, and with thy chil- dren after thee for ever, when thou doſt that which is good and right in the ſight of the LORD thy God.
29 When the LORD thy God ſhal cut off the nations trom before thee, wkither thou goeſt to poſſeſs them 7,
and thou Þ ſucceedeſt them, and dwelleſt in their land: T Heb. im r Of which phraſe ſee Dev. g. 1. and 11. 23. a——_— 39 Take heed to thy ſelf, that thou be not ſnared 5 Pele 7 by following them, after that they be deſtroyed ?, + Heb: af from before thee ; and that thouenquire nor after their #er chew, gods », ſaying, How did theſe nations ſervetheir gods ? even fo will I do likewiſe. 5 Drawn intotheirſin and ruine. * ( 5.e. ) By following the ex- ample they lefr, when their perſons are deſtroyed. « Throughcu- riotity to know their gods and the manner ofthe worſhip, leſt thy vainand fooliſh mind be ſeduced by its ſpeciouſneſs or newnelſs.
31 Thouſhalt notdo fo unto the LORD x*thy God:for | every t abomination tothe LORD which he hateth, have 411eb. at6- they done unto their gods : for * even their ſons and mination their daughters they have burnt in the fire to their gods. ***
x Either 1. Not offer him that indignity and injury to worſhip * Lev: 18: other gods together with him. Or rather, 2. Norworſhip him in 21:6t 20:22 ſuch manner as they worthipped their gods, towit,by offering thy ©Þ: 18: 103 children to him, as they did to their gods, as it here follows,or by J<£3%:35- thy own devices or ſuperſtitions, as is implied, wer. 32.
32 Whatthingſoever I command you, obſerve todo * ch: 4: it : *thou ſhalt not add thereto, nor diminiſh from it. Jo: T: [+ | CHAP. XU. Roti Enticers to Idolatry, being permitted by God, ta try Iſrael, were to be ſtoned ©
to death, 1---5. though near of kin, 6-11, A city found guilty of
Idolatry, to be burnt and utterly deftroyed, 12---16. They were not to
take any of its curſed things, but to obey God's Command, that his mercy
might be upon them, 17, 18. | | | F there ariſe among you # a prophet, or a dreamer of dreams b, andgiveth thee a tign or a wonder c :
a ( i.e, ) One of your nation, for ſuch might be both ſeduced and afterwards ſeducers. + One that pretends himſelf to be one to whom God hath revealed himſelf, either þy viſions or dreams. See Numb, 12.6. c ( 3, e. ) Shall foretell ſome ſtrange and wonderful thing to come, as appears from wer. 2. as the true Prophets uſed to do, as 1 Sam. 10. :
2 And * the ſign or the wondercome to paſsd, whereof « cg. .. he ſpake unto-thee, ſaying e, Let us geafter other gods, 18: 22:
( which thou haſt not known ) and let us ſerve them ; Jer: 28: 9. 4 Which God may ſuffer for the reaſon after mentioned. s This Mat: 7:22: word is to be joyned with the beginning of werſe 1. If there ariſe among you a prophet, or dreamer of dreams, ſaying, what there follows, and giveth thee a ſign, &Cc. to confirm his doQrine, ſuch tranſpoſi- tions are frequent. 3 Thou ſhalt not hearken to the words of that prophet
e,or that dreamer of dreams; for the LORD your God * *1Cor:122 proveth you f, toknow g whether ye love the LORD 9
your God with all your heart, and with all your ſoul.
e Not receive his doQtrine, though the ſign come to paſs. For although when ſuch a ſign or wonder foretold did not follow or come to paſs, it was aſign of a falſe prophet, as Is ſaid, Dewt. 18, 22. yet when it did come to paſs, it was no 1ufficient or infallible ſign of a true one, eſpecially in ſuch a caſe when he brings in new gods. The reaſon of the difference is, becauſe many cauſes muſt concur to make a thing good and true, bur any one failure is ſufficient to make a thing bad or falſe. And parricularly there are many ſigns, yea fuch as men may think to be wonders, which may be wrought by evil ſpi- rits,God ſo permitting it for divers wiſe and juſt reaſons, not only for the trial of the good, as it here follows, bur alſo for the puniſh- ment of ungodly men, who wonld not receive Divine Truths, though atreited by many evident and unqueſtionable Miracles,and therefore are moſt juſtly expoſed to theſe temptations to believe lies: f(#. e. ) Tryeth your faith and love and obedience,examinerh your ſincerity by your conſtancy. See Mat: 24: 24: 2 Theſ: 2: 11: Rev: 13:14. See on Gen; 22: 1, Dent:'8: 2, 7. g That he may know it, to wit, judicially, or in a publick manner, ſoas both you and 0- 4 thers may know and ſee it, that fo the juſtice of his judgments up- on you _—_— more evident and glorious, NR
4 Ye ihal walk after the LORD your God, and fear
him, and keep his commandments, and obey his voice, and ye (hal ſerve him bh, and * cleave unto him. *&. b To wit, only asappears from the oppoſition. Compare Dent: , * 6: 13: with Mats 4: 10. *ch 18.29. ſhal Zech.r 3-3
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5 And * that prophet, orthat dreamer of dreams -w 2G 2 A