hep, KUL. Hb ſp:-be put to death ( becauſe he hath ſpoken to turn yo# Fen 1-21* away from the LORD & your Ged, which brought you KE3:2 © out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed you out ef the Fc: > 21, houſe of bondage, to thruſtthee out ofthe way / which [$>4. : Cor. the LORD thy God commanded thee to walk in, ) * {0
$-13- {halt thou put the evil » away from the midft of thee. | ; (5. e. ) Taught or perſwaded you. & To forſake God and his worthip. He thews that the chieteſt and moſt certain chara&ter of a true Prophet,is to be taken from his doQrine rather than from his miracles. / This phraſe notes the great force and power of ſeducers to corrupt mens minds. Compare Dezt.4. 19. 2 King. 17.21. Mat.24. 24. m Either 1. that evil thing, that wicked do&rine and praCtice. Or 2. that wicked and ſcandalous man, that Idolater and Seducer. - _ 6* It thy brother, the ſon of thy mother », or thy ſon, or thy daughter o, or the wife of thy botom p, or thy friend, which #s as thine own ſoul q, entice thee r ſeccetly,faying,Letus go and ſerve other gods 5; ( which
thou halt not known, thou, nor thy fathers, )
» This is added, to reſtrain the ſignification of the word brother, which is oft uſed generally for one near a kin, and to expreſs the nearnef; of the relation,the mothers ſide being the ſureſt, and uſu- ally the ground of the trueſt and moſt fervent affeCtion. See Ger.20. 12, o Thy picty muſt overcome both thy affe&ion to thy neareſt relation, and thy compaſſion to the weaker Sex. p Either 1. that 1s near to thy heart, that hath thy deareſt love. Or rather 2. that lyeth in thy boſom, as it is expreſſed, Mic. 7. 5. Compare Gen. 16. 5. Prov. 5. 20. Deut. 28. 54. So we read ofthe husband of her boſom, Deut. 28. 56: q As dear to thee as thy ſelf. The father and mother are here omitted, not, as ſome fancy, becauſe children might not in this nor in any caſe accuſe their Parents,for certainly they owe morereverence and duty to God,who is injured in this caſe, than to their parents, and L.:vi is commended for negleQing his father and mother in this caſe ; but becauſe they are ſufficiently contained inthe former examples ; for ſince mens love doth uſually deſcend more ſtrongly than it aſ- cends, and the relation of a wife is and ought to be nearer and dearer than of a Parent, that favour which is denied to wives and children cannot be thought fit to be allowed to Parents. r Though it be without ſucceſs, becauſe the very attempt of ſuch an abomina- ble crime deſerved death, as it is judged in caſe of treaſon. 5s Un-
crime,to forſakea God whom thou and thy fathers have long known, and had great and good experience of, for ſuch upſtarts.
7 Namely, of the gods of the people which are round a- bout you,nigh untothee, or far off from thee, from the cnc end ofthe earth,even unto the other end of the earth r:
c He arms againſt the pretence of the univerſality of this Idol- worſhip, wherewith they were like to be oft aſſaulted.
8 Thou ſhalt not conſent unto him, nor hearken un- to him, neither ſhal thine eye pity him, neither ſhalt thou ſpare, neither ſhalt thou conceal him «.
u { 7,e.) Smother his fault, hide or prote& his perſon, but ſhalt accuſe him to the Magiſtrare,and demand juſtice upon him, which was not to be done in moſt other criminal cauſes; and no wonder, this crime bzing of a far higher nature than others.
9 But * thou (balt ſurely kill him x ; thine hand ſhal be firſt upon him,to puthim to death y, and afrerwards the hand of all the people.
x Not privately, which pretence would have opened the door to innumerable murders, but by procuring his death by the ſentence of the Magiſtrate. y Thou ſhalt caſt the firſt ſtone at him, as the Witneſs was todo. See Deut: 17: 7: At: 7: 58.
io And thou ſhaltſtone bim with ſtones that he die :; becauſe he hath ſought to thruſt thee away from the | LORD thy God which brought thee from the land of + Heb.bond EgyPt, from the houſe of F bondage.
_ it And * all Ifrael ſhal hear, and fear, and ſhal do no more any ſuch wickedneſs as this is, among you, 12 If thou ſhalthear /ay in one of thy cities which the * LORD thy God hath given thee,to dwell there, ſaying, {Ornaugh- 13 Certain men, || the children of Belial z, are gone ty men. out from among you 4, and have withdrawn the inha- x Sam; 2 birancs of their city ſaying, Let us go and ſerve orher 25.2 Cor. gods ( which ye have nor known: ) G. 15+ z A title oft uſed in Scripture, as Juadg.19.22. 1 Sam.1.16. and 25. 25. 2Sam.16.7. It ſignifies properly perſons without yoke, vile and wretched miſcreants, lawleſs and rebellious, that will ſuffer no re- ſtraint,that neither fear God,nor reverence man. 3 ( #.e.) From your Church 2nd Religion. It notes a ſeparation or departure from them, not in place ( as appearsby their partnerſhip with their fellow Ci- rizens both in the ſin & puniſhment as it here follows bur in hearr, doftrine and worſhip, as the ſame phraſe isuſed, 1 5oh: 2. 19.
14 Then ſhalt thou b enquire,and make ſearch, and ask diligently : and behold, if ;: be truth, and the thing certain, that ſuch abomination is wrought among you:
b This is meant of the Magiſtrate, to whoſe office this properly belongs, and of whom he continues to ſpeak in the ſame manner, thou, wer. 15. and wer. 16. ; |
1; Thou ſhalt ſurely ſmite the inhabitants of that ci- * Joſ.6.17. © © with the edge of the ſword,* deſtroying itutterly d,
and all that therein #s, and the cactel with the edge of the Iword.
c To wit,all that are guilty,not the innocent part,ſuch as diſown= ed this Apoſtacy,who doubtleſs by choice and intereſt, atleaſt upon warning, would come out of ſo wicked and curſed a place. d4 'The very ſame puniſhment which was inflifted upon the cities of the curſed Canaanites,to whom having made themſelves equal in fin, it is but fit and juſt that God ſhould equal them in puniſhment.
16 4nd thou ſhalc gather all the ſpoil of ic into the
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known and obſcure and new gods; which greatly aggravates the,
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Chap. XY; midſt of the ſtreet thereof, and ſhalt burn with fire the city,/and all the ſpoil thereof every whit,for the LORD thy God e : and itſbal be an heap for ever, it ſhal not be built again f.
e (i.e. ) For the ſatisfa&tion of God's juſtice, the maintenance of his honour and authority and laws, and the pacification of hi: of-