thers, either hard Service, above the ſtrength of your Servants, or beyond the time limited by God for their dervice, of which ſeean Inſtance, Jer. 34. 13, 14, 15, 16. or debts, v hich you require either withuſury, orat leaſt with rigour and cruelty, when either the ge- neral Law of Charity, or God's particular and poſitive Law, com- manded the releaſe or at leaſt rhe forbearance of them ; of which ice an inſtance, Nehem, 5. 1, 2, &C. | 4 Behold, ye faſt for ſtrife and debate p, and to ſmite with the filt of wickedneſs qe || ye (ball not faſt as ye do
this day, to make your voice r to be heard on high. |[Or, Þ Your faſting days, wherein you ought in a ſpecial manner to f#f wt unplore the Mercy of God, and ro ſhew compaſſion to Men, you Is 4). imploy in a great meaſure in injuring or quarrelling with your Bre-
thren, your Servants or Debtors, or in contriving miſchief againſt
them, as if the 'd2ſign of your faſting and praying to God, were only
to obtain alicence'tooppreſs men. Compare Mat, 23. 14. q Or, with
@ wicked fiſt, a Genitive ofthe Adjun&. To dezl rigoroufly and in- juriouſly with your Servants or Debtors, which Servants, it may
be, had ſold themſelves to the year of Redemption, Exid. 21: 2.
Lev. 25+ 39, 40, 50, You handle them with an hard hand, the
word is uſed for fff, Exod. 21. 18. the LXX add the humble, poor,
or tnferiour perſon, and that not only their Debtors with a ſummum
jus exatt rigour, which ſeems elſe-where to be. expreſſed by grind-
ing the face, ch. 3.15. and in that Parable by taking by the throar,
Matth. 18. 28. but alſo their'Servants out of meer Will and Plea-
ſure, and in confempt of them, treating them - opprobriouſly, as
Chriſt was handled in contempt and ſcorn, Matth. 26. 67, 68. Joh.
18. 22, 7-Either r- In ſtrife and debate, in which Men's Paſſions
ſhew themſelves by loud clamours. Or 2. So as to cauſe the cry of
the oppreſſed, by reaſon of.your injuries, of what kind ſoever, to
ever ſin is againſt Charity in ſpecial, as allo general complex ſins, Or 3. By way of Oftenta- tion, to note their Hypocrifie, they love to be taken notice of by 0» thers, Match. 6. 2,5, 16. Or, their Foy, ſuppoſing that they ſhalF be heard for their much ſpeaking, upon which accovnt Baals Prieſts are mocked by Elijah, 1 Kings 18. 27, 28. 4. Foice here relates
' principally to their Prayer, it is a Synecdoche of the kind; So the
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