Phatical reperirion of the fame thing in divers words, which is an Þ _.. * Gen. ulual Elegancy both :s. Scriptvre and oiher Authors. wi wg pr ten f —_.. Ts | 32..29- .- | Fleb. 2 Andy the angel of the LORD f appeared untc | * = Ce ER nT or onderful, ſuch as thou canſt i Or, worts
RY, hend : my Natvre and Eſſe :hich 5 _ «og the woman, and ſaid unto her, Behoid now, thou ar: CNY J re and Eſſence ( which is oft ſign-fied by derfuls
-ame in Scripture ) is incomprehenſible, This ſhews, thae this barren, and bareft nor: bur thou ſhalt CONCeIVEC, anc } vas the Angel of the Covenant, the Son of God. :
bear a ſon. 19 So Manoah took a kid, with a meat-cff-rin ”, f AIG Son of God off ſo Gy oi ern heat pace as may be | 4rd offered #t upon a rock z to the LORD ; and the þ athered from wv. 18: yet diſtinguiſhed from the Lord, becauſe h: «4 pe . 5 | ns od here a2 ie wire: ir the terms of x Bevrame, as 6 MANI angel did wondrouſly, and Manoah and his wife look-
ſent from God, and was really a diſtin& Perion from God the Fa- ed on. . ; ; : _ ; d l mak: y Which were pn joyned with the chief Sacrifices. - z The : K . Ange!s preſence and Command b-ing a ſufficienr Warrant for th ' Numb. 4 Now therefore, beware [ a” thee EE and dr Ink offering of Sacrifice by a perſon who was no prieſt, and in a ages 6-2, 3} Not wine, nor ſtrong drink h, and eat not any unciean | ,trerv te forbidden. thing is 20 For it came to paſs when the flame a went un : ; G | u g Becauſe the Child was to be a Nazarite from the Womb, v. 5 roward heaven from ot the altar b, that the anose! + ani! fromthe Conception ; and becauſe the Mothers pollution ex- he LORD aſcended in the fl : 5 tends ro the Child, the is enjoyned from this time to obſerve the CEN , OTIS 0 CHE CE or rhe altar ; and following Rules belonging ro rhe Nazarires. h Under which by a Manoah and his wife looked on zt, and fell on their Synecdoche are compreterided the other particulars mentioned, | faces d to the ground. : | Numb. 6; 2, }, 4: as is implied ve 149: # Any of thoſe meats for-| 4 Either ariſing from the Fire which Manoah brought for the Off=r- wenn Levit, 11: which were forbidden to all, bur eſpecially ro| ing: or produced by the Ang-1 out of the R=ck in a miracalous the Nazarztes. '
ann : mannere 6b ( i- «-) From thar part of the Rock which ſerved in- 5 For lo, thou ſhalt conceive and bear a ſon; and | ſtead -fan Altar» upon which tie Sacrifice was laid. c To mani-
6, * * no rafor ſhall come on bis head: for the child ſhall | {ſt his Natwe and Epos! » be Spiritual, becauſe not capable of | 1 Sk, be a Nazarice & unte God from the womb: and te hurt by the Fire ; and Celeſtial. &@ Partly in revexence to that glo-
. T r-ous Preſence manifeſted in ſo wenderful a manner : and part - t 11s R_ to deliver Iſrael 7 out of the hand of the | gut of a religious Horror ar d Fear of Death h——_ this — _ wy iliſtines. 5
: is exprefſed ve 22 for the prevention whereof they fell down in k A perſon ſeparated from others, and conſecrated to Gods Ser- | way of Supplication ro Gog
vice. | And the deliverance ſhall be cairied on and perfefcd by 21. ( But the angel cf the LORD Eid no more an- others, as IT Was 1n part by El, and Samuel, and Saul; bur efpeci-| pear to Manoah and to his wife : ) then Manoah knew
ally by David.
| | that he was an angel of the LORD. | | Pond: F 6 C "_ the m_ came, and told her husband,} _, And Manoah ſaid unto his wife, * We ſhall ſure- 23. r= aying, A man of God »» came unco me, and his coun: ly die, becauſe we have ſeen God. * Deur, tenance was like the countenance of an argel of God, | 25: Bue his ES ano him If 4; LORD. were © 20; 26; 5 very terrible » : but 1 asked him not whence he was 1 + d to kil , | TONE SIE | Chap. "1 .D&ither told he me his name: 2 P (- ( [C#] 1 l Us, he WOuid 11OT have received a burn - 6; 22;
Os 2 Q 4 oftering, Ir
JUDGES. * * Chap, We
of the Lion, which by its ſtrong ſmell is offenfive to, and avoided
| Chap. AIV, | offering, would he at this time e have told us | "IS e Or, at this time : The Particle, ary noting here, not Iikene S, but the truth and reality of the thing, as it doth Numb. 11 1. _ y- 10- and elſewhere. This Expreſſion ſeems to have ſome x m- phaſis in it, to enhance Gods mercy to them, as being afforded them in a time of ſuch publick and grievous Calamity 3 and in a time when the Word of the Lord was precious aid there was Ro open Viſion. as it was afterwards, 1 Sam. 3+ 1. ; 24 © And the woman bare a ſon, and _ name * Samſon: and the child grew, and the LO
bleſſed him f. | F(#. e. _- him with all thoſe Graces and gifts of Mind and
Body which were neceſſary for the Work he was deſigned for.
25 And the Spirit of the LORD began to move him at times g, in the camp of Dan b, berween Zorah
and Fſhtaol.
7. Toftir himup to Heroical Deſigns; to ſhew forth irs power
'S, +50 er frame + his Mind, and in the ſtrength of his Body,
diſcovered to his Neighbours in extraordinary aCtions ; to -7 op
his heart to great Attemprs to the help and deliverznce of -_ : people, and to give ſome Effaysof it to his Brethren, and to ſee -
Opportunities for it, as he did in the nex: Chapter. + A place io
called, either from the Expzdition of the Daniros, Tudg. 18. Io, Fa.
which though placed after this Hiſtory, was done before it LE from ſome other Camp which the D2nitcs had formed there at this time, to give ſome Check to the Incurfions of the Philiſtines.
Samſon deſires to wife a daughter af the Philiſiines of Timnath __ of the Lord for an occaſion againit them, 1 == 4+ His parents go me with him to Timnath: & young liou meets him : he kills it, 5— 7+ 4 his return he findeth honey in the carcaſe, 8. 9. _ feaſt : hath thirty companions adjoyned to him: #0 whom he propoun es a riddle: with promiſe of a preſent, 10— —15+ His wife extorts from him the explicaticon : and d:ſcovereth it, 16, —— 1 8. He ſlayeth _ ty Phil:fines of Arkelon 3 and therewith payeth his preſent, 19. #415 wife is oiven to another, 20s :
Nd Samſon went down « to Timnath b and ſaw 2 woman in Timnath, of the daughters of the
Philiſtines. |
s After he was come to mature Age: b A place not far from
the Sea; of which ſee Gen. 38. 12. Foſbe 15. 57. and 19+ 43+ 2 And he came up, and told his father and his mo-
ther, and ſaid, I have ſeen a woman in Timnath, of the daughters of thePhiliſtines ; now therefore get her for me to wife. : .