anger with a fooliſh nation £- - f (i.e.) With the Gentile or Heatheniſh nations, who are none of my people, who ſcarce deſerve the name of a people, as being withour yoke, without the knowledge and fear of God which is the foundation of all true policy and government, and without righteous and neceſſary Laws ; And many of them are deſtitute of all government and laws and order, barbarous and rude and fſa- vage and brutiſh in their manners. And yet theſe people I will prefer before you, and take in your ſtead, receive them and re- jet you; Which, when it came to paſs how deſperately it pro- voked the Jews to jealouſie, may be gathered from Matth. 21. 43, &c. Afts 11. 2,3. and 22. 21, 22, 23. 1 Theſ. 2. 15, 16. g Sothe Gentiles were both in the opinion of the Jews, and in truth and rea- lity, notwithſtanding all their pretences to Wiſdom, Rom. x. 22, there being nothing more fooliſh or brutiſh than the worſhip of i- dols. See Fer. 10. 8. 1 Cor. 12. 2. .; 22 For * a fire is kindled þ in mine anger, and[}ſhall * Jer: rs: burn unto the loweſthell 3, and || ſhall conſume the earth 14 4m with her increaſe, and ſet on fire the foundations of the q Or, hath
mountains. burned. hb (i.e.) Great and grievous judgements ſhall be inflited, which || Or, hath oft come under the name of fire, &c. See Deut. 4. 24. Ezek. 30. 8. conſumed. Amos 2. 2, 5. 3 Or, unto hell or the graves beneath, The ſenſe is, ir thall not only burn up all the corn and fruits and buildings which appear above ground, but it ſhall reach to the inwards and depths of the carth, and burn up the very roots and hopes of future increaſe. | | 23 I will * heap miſchiefs upon them, I will * ſpend + x5. ,; mine arrows k upon them. "87 k (i. e.) Even empty my quiver, and ſend upon them all my * Pal: 7: Plagues, which, like arrows ſhot by a skilful and ftrong hand, ſhall 12, 13. ſpeedily reach and certainly hit and mortally wound them. Com- Ezck: 5. pare Zach. g. 14. I'Ge 24 They thall be burnt with hunger 7, and devoured with + burning heat », and with bicter deſtruction : I f Heb: will alſo ſend * the teeth of beaſts upon them, with the ©9775
poyſon of ſerpents of the duſt ». + ; With famine, which burneth and parcheth the inward parts, * Lev, 26.
and makes the face black as a coal, Lam. 4. 8. m From feversor car=- 22
buncles, or other inflaming diſtempers. n» Who feed upon the
duit, Ger. 3. 14. and lurk in it that they may ſurprize unwary
paſſengers. Gen. 49. 17.
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25 * The (word without, and terrour f within ſhall * Lam. # deftroy, both the young man and the virgin, the ,” Tack
ſuckling «lo, with the man of gray hairs. tHeb: from 26 1 faid, I would ſcatter them into corners, T would the Chan- make the remembrance of them to ceaſe from among **”*:
£7© 7 - their worſhip. Compare 1 Cor. 16. 20. The Gentiles pretended to worſhip God in thoſe idols, and the devils which inſpired them deluded the nations with falſe pretences, that they were a ſort of lower gods. Moſes therefore takes off this mask, and ſhews the 1/ra- elites that theſe prerended gods were really devils, thoſe great ene- mies of Mankind, and therefore that it was the height ofmadneſs to honour or worſhip them. « This he faith, either becauſe though at firſt they joined God and idols together in worſhip, yet at Jaſt they quire forſook God and adhered to idols only: Or becauſe God - utterly reje&ed thoſe ſacrifices which they offered to him, together with idols, and took them for no ſacrifices. See 1 Cor. 10. 21. x Or, who never knew them, (i.e.) never ſhewed any kindneſs to them, or did them any good : For ſo words of Knowledge are oft uſed, as Pſal. 1.6. Hoſ. 13. 5. y Not ſimply or abſolutely, for ſome of theſe gods had been worſhipped for many generations,and had a fair pre- "rence of long antiquity, but comparatively ro the true God, who is the antient of days, Dan. 7. 9. and who was worſhipped from the beginning of the world. To this original and firſt antiquity Moſes recals them; as alſo our Saviour doth recall the Jews to the firſt In- Nirution, Matth. 19. 8. And therefore we may ſafely follow both "their patterns in deſpiſing all pretences of antiquity,which are con- trary to God's firſt Inſtitutions contained (as all confeſs) in the ho- ly Scriptures. = (i.c.) Seryed not, worſhipped not, but juſtly de- PÞiſed and abhorred them.
I :44.8. I8 Ofthe* Rock s that-begat thee b thou art unmind- ful, and haft forgotten God that formed thee. # (i. e.) Of God, one of whoſe titles this is, above verſe 4. 1.
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; re 27 Were it not that I feared the wrath of the enemy ET 0, leſttheir adverſaries ſhould behave themſelves ſtrange- ly p, and leſt they ſhould ſay, || Our hand js bigb, and || Or, w the LORD hathdone all this high hand, o (1i.e.) Their rage againft me, as it is expreſſed, 1ſs. 37. 28, 29. 49d mt the their inſolent and furious reproaches againſt my Name, as if I were LORD hath unnatural and cruel to my people, or unable to deliver them. Com- 4one all pare Exad. 32. 12. Numb. 14. 13, Deut. 9. 28. Joſ. 7, 9g. The fear this. hereof is aſcribed to God after the manner of men, þ (i. e.) Inſo- lently and arrogantly above what they uſed to do. Or, make them- ſelves ſtrangers, (i. c.) Either really not acknowledge or pretend the did not know that which I had publickly declared, and they either did or cafily might have known, to wir, that this Judgement was inflicted upon them by my hand for their fins. 28 For they q are a nation void of counſel”, neither is there any underſtanding in them. q Either r. The enemies laſt mentioned, who are fooliſh people and therefore make ſo falſe and fooliſh a judgement upon things. Or rather 2. The I/raclites themſelves, of whom he ſpeaks both in the foregoing verſe 26. and in the whole foregoing chapter, and in the next verſe 29. and afterwards. » That have not wiſdom to dire@ theſelves,nor diſcretion to deſire and receive counſel from o- thers, but raſhly and madly go on in thoſe courſes which will cer. tainly ruine them. : 29 *-O that they were wiſe, that they underftood , * ſal: 8r,
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