x 1,e. Thoſe whom they have.mad: naked, whom they ſtripped 14 _ murdererxifing wich thelight y, killeth the Mick 6f their Garmeais and Coverings ; io far were they from exercifing | POOT and needy z, and in che night is as a,ghief «. Taſtice or Charity towards them. y To ſl:ep in the night, which 1s »Y As ſoon as the light appears, uling no leſs diligence in his wick | the coldeſt Seaſon. 2 Without Bed: cloaths to cover them. Compare cd practiſes, than Labourers Co 1n their honeſt and Gaily employments Dent. 24. 13 s Of the Night of the' Winter-ſeaſon. This Verſe is { Where he find> nothing to ſatisfie his Covetouſtels, he cxerciſeth and may fitiy be rendred thus 3 They cauſe Men to lodge naked, becauſe his Crueity. a #.e: He isreally a Thief ; the particle as being oft uſed they have no tloathins (i e becauſe thev leave them nothing where- to expreſs, not the reſemblance, but the truth of the thing. as Num. with'they can cloath themſelyes _) and no covering in the cold. They | 11+- 1. Deut: 9: 10: Ho. 4: 4. & 5. $0: John 1. 14. Inthe Night leave them neither Rayment to wear in the Day, nor a Covering for they rob men ſecretly and cunnipgly, as in the Day-time they do it
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8 They 6 are wet with the ſhowers of the mountainse, | 15 *. ; 1 and embrace the rock d for want of. a ſhelter. ewilight c, ſaying 4, No eye ſhall ſee me ; and + dif- + 6 3, e., The:Poor being ſtripped of their Rayment, an4 forced a- guiſeth bzs face e. 2th his tees
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fe f way .from their Houſes, . c With. the Rain-water, which 1n great | 6. j; e, The Adulterer ; but he mentions his Eye, becauſe the Eye in ſeeret: 1444 ſhowpes runs. down from the Rocks or Mountains info the Caves or | diſcerns the difference between light and Carkneſs. c To wit, for i Holes in the ſides of th:m,to which: tliey tled for ſhelters d 7 e, Are the evening twilight, which is his opportunity. &d In his heart,com- glad when they cen find a Cavern or Cleft of a Rock in which they | forting himſclt with the thuughts of ſecretneſs and impunity. e Heb, may have ſome.proteftion. againſt the injuries of the Weather, aud | purteth his face in ſecret, covers it with a Vizard or Cloak, that he may , anhiding-placef: on the fury of cheir Oppreſliors, Compare Lam:4 5. | be undiſcovered, | 9. They e pluck the fatherlefs from the breaſt f, and | 16 In the dark f they dig through houſes, which they take'a pledge of the poor g+ g had marked for themlelves þ in the day-time: * they , e The wicked Opprefſor, as is manifeſt from the following words. | know not the lights. » _ f either out of Cruelty, not ſparing poor Infants, but killing them : f Either 1, the Adulterer laſt mentioned ; although ſuch perſons do Joh:3:20 -r out of covetouſneſs. and with defizn either wy Sing wrong, OT | no: uſe nor need” theie violent courics to get 1nto the Houſe of the to imploy her in their work to which they ſo Uir1 4 oy fucklios Adultereſs, but are commonly admitted upon milder and eaher terms. | wry hay not allow any of ve nes po eggs: © MUcKUIDB | Or 2. theThi.f & Robber, whoſe common' praiſe this is, -of whom ot ner Infant. g Of which ſee the Notes on C).p . . | he ſpokev' 14: aid taviog on that occaſion inſerted the mention of - 10''They' cauſe him h to go naked without clothing, | the Aculterer as one who -a&: @his ſin' in the ſame manner as the . and they take away the ſheaf from the hungry K. N:ght thief did, he now returns to him again. g The Thief and his 1256; h The poor oppreſſed perſon, 7 Leaving him nothing, or next | Complice:s, þ Defigning by ſome ſecret mark the Houſe of ſome rich' fo nothing, to coverhim in che Day*time, when he ſhould go abroad | man whici they intended to rob, and the part of the houſe where they to his1aour to pet his living, but cannot for wapt of Cloaths to co- reſoiyed tocuter into'it: .7 Z:e; Do not love norlike it, as verſe 13. ver hisNakednefs. þ That ſingle Sheaf which the poor man had got | but avior it, as it tolſows. | +4 _ the Sweat of his Brows to ſatisfie his _— Farr. wg nes 17 For the morning is to them even as thedhadow of Cake away, and added it to their own Stores and fu mt. v7, 1 arath &* "5 N 7 | are hungry ; or they ſent them away hungry 3: thoſe words being rc- morn 3 GOES, 70Y EN ” theterrouss ofthe | an, > oft uſual ) | ſhadow of death /, | peated out of the forter clauſe of the V. rſe. ( as 15 moſt uſual ) - > Terrib c Pay : which 't00b- or carried the ſheaf,, of their ſheaves 3 i 8. which reaped Wd e res, rae wu _ becauſe it both dilcovers them, and ob: and *ga'hered jn the rich man's Corn, tor which they received In- a aa ar =D , Lo ey Nos brought to light or diſcoyered Juries inſtead of a juſt Recompenſe for their labor 3 and that when they are overwhelmed wit eadly horrours and Terrours: Or. asthe words arc, and may 'vcry agreeablyto the Hebrew be rendred thus;
God's liberality, and the bounty of the Eurth to them, invited and | | : of obliged them - Kind and paſs ations to othliers. EE, : RR te TI ſignifies ) they «mp [4 EO . of, ies” 1 het "PIR: noweth, every em knoweth 3 j- e. approveth and lovet Tx Which make oil within cheir walls Z,, ava tread the terrours of the ſhadow of death. 1. e. the grofleſt darkneſs of the Night | A tnerr wine-preſles %, and ſutfer thirlt », Ne” ._ | which toother en 15 a5 terrible a« the ſhadow of death, but to theſe F os Wa id Cee ene Eee" > the Oppre®: | OE ES . R ) AaTKNets, .
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