4s to drinl Wine, mingled with Myrih;, but be recerved it nt. Like is Jarger in his Account of the paſſages, berwixt his Con- demnation and Cructtix1on, Ch. 23. 25,10 33. And as they led him, the} Liid hold on ne Simon @ Cyrenian coming out of the Coun- try, and on bim they lid the Crrſs, that he might bear it after Jeſus id there followed him a gi oi Coimpuny of People, and of Women, which alſo bewailed , and lamented him, But Jeſus turning unto them, ud, D.tugiotei 5 of Feruſalem, weep ne for me, but for YIUr "and for your Childien ; For bebald the days are coming, in the which the" (hell ſay, bl:fjed re the Brien; and the Womb that never bare, 8nd the Paps WRC) newer gave Suck, Then ſoail they begin i ſoy 1 the Mountains, fl on 1, and to the Hills cover its. Fir if they d) (irs, in 4 Green Tie?, m hat ſt: be done in the Dry 9 And \ haye were 21ſ) 1w9 ther Malefaors led with him to be put to Death, in, Ch. 19. 17. fairh no more than, And he bearing hws Croſs, " wt {wth into 2 jlce, oiled the place of a Skull, which is called in 14, Aatthew, and Mark, and Luke ſay, That a
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Gilethaz, Lofts calls it Calvary, they are both Names of the fame Siznification, 77-2 place of a Skull; the one is the Hebrew Term, the other Latine : | And they gave him Vinegar to drink, mingled with Gall.) Mark faith, Wine mingled with Myrrh ; There is fo great a Cognation between Wine, and Vinegar, that it 1s no won- der if one Evangeliſt calls ir Vinegar, another Wine, which, 1t it be acid, is Vinegar. The Word tranſlated Gall, ſignifies all Bit- terneſs wherher it be cauſed from Gall, or Myrrh. Some think thar ſome good People gave him Wing, and the Soldiers added Mirrh co it. Bur this 15 a great incertainty ; Certain it 15, that it was an ordinary Favour they ſhewed to dying Perſons, to give them fome Intoxicating Potion to make them leſs ſenſible of their Pain: Ir is probable it was ſomerhing of rhis Nature ; but our Saviour was not atraid to die, and ſo had no need of ſuch an Antidote againſt rhe Pain of ir; he refuſed it: We ſhall find they afterward gave him ſomerining co drink alſo. Zuke tells us, that great multicudes foliowed him to the place of Execution (which is ſtill very ordinary) Lamenting him, to. whom our Saviour ſath, Daughters of Jeruſalem, Weep mt for me, but for your ſelves, ard for your Childjen , and then propheſieth the Miſerics that ſhould follow his Death to that degree, thar the Barren ſhould leſs themſelves ; and they all ſhould fay to the Wountains fall on vs, and to the Hills cover us. He bids the Women weep only for themſelves and for their Children : For how much betrer 1s it fr Perſons of any Tenderneſs ro have no Children, than to have Children, and ro ſec them daſhed againſt the Stones, as was threatned to B.rby/5n, Pſal. 137. 9. or to Kill them for the Parents Suſtenance, as ir happened in 44's time ; or to fee them ſlain before the Parents Fices, as it happened to Zedekiah, when the Enemy took 7ersſzlerir, Fer. $2. 10. The People alſo, he faith, ſhould (as it was of old propheſied of thoſe of Samaria) Hof. 20
8. Ciy to the 3ient zins t9 cover them, and to the Hills to fall on them: A Proverbial Exprefſion,co fignifie their wiſhing rhemſelves dead and under Ground ; or expounded by 1/ziah 2. 19. And they ſhall g2 into the Holos of the Rocks, and into the Cares of the Earth, for Fear of the Lord, and for the Glory of his Majeſty, when he ſhall a- ri/e to ſhake terribly the Earth. See che like Expreſſions, Rev. 6.16, (5 9. 6. In thiſe days, Men ſhall ſech Death, and ſhall not find it, end ſhall deſire t9 die, and Death (hall flee from them. | For if they thus t) the green Tree, what ſhall be done to the dry 2) It is another Proverbial Expreſſion, which may either be underſtood Imperſo- nally. If they do, that is, if ir he thus done to. If God luffers them thus to do to me, who am his Son, whar ſhall be done to you, who are bur as dry Sticks, and fo fitter for the Fire. If Fudgment bezin «t the Houſe of God, where ſhall the Wicked and Un- gully appear 2 1 Pet. 4. 17,
R219 25 And they crucified him, and * parted his gar- ments, caſting lots : that it might be fulfilled which was ſpoken by the Prophet, They parted my garments amonglt them,and upon my veſture did they caſt lots.
36 And ficting down, they watched him there:
27 And let up over his head his accuſation written, THIS IS JESUS THE KING OF THE JEWS.
28 Then were there two thieves crucified with him: one on the 11ght hand, and another on the leit.
Hark, Ch. 1<, 24. 25, &c. ſaith, When they had crucified
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