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Poole, Matthew, 1624-1679 • SECTION 1493

Annotations upon the Holy Bible — Volume 2 — Section 1493

← Matthew Poole — Annotations upon the Holy Bible — Volume 2

2 Do we * provoke the Lord to jealouſie « ? Are

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4 The Apoſtle puts another caſe, in which they might lawfully enough eat of meat offered to. an Idol; chat wasin cafe any of their Neighbours that were Heathens, invired them to dinner or ſupper in a private houſe (ſome add, or in the Idols Temple, it ic were a Feaſt of friendſhip, not a Feaſt upon a Sacrifice, bur I doubt that; and alſo whether in the Idol-Temples there were-any -| Feaſts bur-tpon Sacrifices)*.* he derermineth it lawful tor them to

alouſie is a violent paſſion in a Man, not bearing a Compa-| go and eat wharſoever was fer before chem ;bur in this caſe he

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would alſo have them a5k no queſtions for conſcicme ſake. fCcccc}j 28 Bur

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, not to ſignifie any ſuch extravagancy, ex- attenderh that paſſion in men, but only his giving that Homage to any Creatur2 which £15 moſt applied to God, to expreſs his an- give Divine Homage to Idols. The Wor-. g 2 great piece of his glory, which he hath

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24 * Lec no man ſeek his own, but every man * Rom. 16.

26 * For the earth is the Lords, and the fulneſs * Exog:

£ This ſentence is taken out of P/a/. 24. 1. The Earth is Gods, Deut. 10. or the Lord Chriſts, who hath ſanQified all things for the uſe of 14. | man, and all the variety of creatures that are in it are ſandified Pal. 50. by kim. An Idol cannot pollute any kind of meat? it hath no 1:2.

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