you lee the very Fow1s of the Air are not fo ſtupid as you ate, om he ſpeaks eicher to Princes and Prieſts, or to the whole Body of c 4:1hos | he People. 24 This may be underſtood either more gereral off 100 all, or may have a more ſpecial Eye to the Priefts, with who: it was intruſted, Deut. 33, 10. Mal. 2. 7, They were won: to boaſt much of the Law, as well as of the Temple, Chap. 18. 13. Rom. 2. 17, 23. 4 q- d. tor any ule they .made of it, thzy nad as good have been without it, God needed not to have given thean [a Law, Hoſ. 8.12. b Neither need it ever have been copied our, i divulged and conveighed down to them by the Scribe, Deur: 1 74 18, or che prevarications and colluſions thele Lawyers uſed in the falſe interpretation of che Law, wherein they f14ed with the falſe Prophets, ſhould be in vain. A Scribe was a Teacher, onc well verted inthe S:ripture, or eſteemed ſo. £2 * Chap. 6
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@rſe. The fame laid of Babylon. Iſz. 47. to. d Or whit & willem to them ? How can they ſay they are wile, when they hays no fear of God, which is the beginning of Willom, Prov. 1. 7. when they have no reſ;ect at al] roche Word of Gcd, as to any holy practice which is the fountaia of all Wiſdom, Dui, 4. 6. Pliim
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10 Therefore * will I give their wives unto others, * Dent, andthcir fields to them that ſhall c inheric 2229: 2 fi every one from the leaſt even unco the greatelt is gj- 70 £1 ven to * fcoverouſneſs, from the Propher even unto 2,yp.,};, the Prieſt, every one dealeth g falily. © ifs. 54,
e A paruphraſtical deſcription of che Miteries of War , G94 x :, doth here inſinuate that their miter y $a!l nor be for a ſhore time, bot fo long, as that ſtrangers, viz. The Cb114c2ns ſhall enjoy cheir Land by Inhet itances; fo far thould they be trom potſeti99 cher Land for ever. f So greedy after their own private gain, that they took nocare of Equity, or Jaſtice, in which word is compriſed all their fraululene Dealings one among another. 2g Oi this and the two next Verles, tee on Chap. 6. 13, 14,15.
11_For they have * healed the hurt of the dangh # Chap. &i ter of my people llightly, ſaying, Peace, pzace, when «4. | there 1s NO Peace.
12 Werethey *aſhame{d when they had committed * Chav. 3, abomination ? nay,they were not at all aſhamed, nei-3* 21d © ther could chey bluſh, rherefore ſhall chey fall amoag **' them that fall ; in the time of their vilitation they ſhall be caſt down, ſaith the LORD.
13 || I will ſarely h conſume them, ſaith the LORD, There ſhall be no grapes * on the vine, norj Gr, 74 . - I x ngs onthe * fig / tree, and the leaf ſhall fade, and che garho= ns things that T have given them ſhall & paſs away from 7 7% cu them. ory
þ Or ingathering I will conſume them 3 q. d. T will fo gather ,- them together into their ſeveral Cities to be beſieged, tha: irh* 0 'n. ſhall be no hard matter to deſtroy them, Yer. 16. viz. The Body Ef of the People, not every one, for theie was a remnaiit. that did * ** *7 eſcape. i Theſe Fruits, Grapes and Fizs, it is Probable were of Luxe 3 3. greateſt account and uſe among chem, 1/a- 36. 16. and fo may be #2 © put forall other things, either for neceffity or delizht, whic God threatens he will deprive them of by reaſon ot che Siege, which a Famine ſhall ſucceed, Chap. 5. 17. Jul 3. 7. Hab. 3.
17. See the lixe Z2ph, 1. 2, 3. Or poſlibly, it way be ſpoken by way of fimilnude, q. d. they ſhall be waſted, 5 when there is no Grapes on the Vine, 8c. the Land ſhall be lett as bare, as when by Tempeſts vr other violence, there is neither Leaf nor Fruit left upon the Tree, P/al. 78. 47. k It this refer to the further puniſhment, as ſome, then it 13 as mich as to lay, wha: they have already received from me and laid vp, they ſhall alto be de: prived of; Hoſ. 2. 8, 9. or though I have given it ta them, yer they ſhall not enjoy it, it ſhall be taken an ay by chem Enemies ; if it rejate to the reaſon of tie puniſhment, as otFers, then the C9- pulative is put tor*the cauſal, g. 4. b+couſe the things that I gave them, viz. My Laws, paſs 4way, i.e. they have tianigrefled, 7(g; 24, 4, F. £ltici tenſe lies fair;
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[come againſt them from a very far Country, Chap. 6. 22. or the voice of them that wereCaptives under thoſe of a far Country,now they begin ro cry,which would not be perſwaded to it before ; the firſt is moſt to be approved of. e Viz. In Jeruſalem, a Meronymy of the SubjeF, f Or as King in Zion, -or have we not a King of the Seed of David, to whom the Kingdom was granted to be per- petual> Eitter the words of God, q.d. was not 1 among ycu to provide for you, and proteCt you, but you muſt needs repair to