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A commentary upon the Fifth book of Moses, called Deuteronomy by ... Symon, Lord Bishop of Ely.
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Patrick, Simon, 1626-1707.
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whence in the Future Tense and the Plural Number comes Jeshuru which by the addition of Nun paragogicum as they speak makes Jeshurun That is The People who had the Vision of God I know nothing more simple nor more probable than this which highly aggravated their sin who having God so nigh unto them IV. 7. and their Elders having had a sight of him XXIV Exod. 10. were so ungrateful as to rebel against him and worship other gods Some refer this kicking to their revolt from the House of David when Jeroboam to preserve his new Kingdom set up the golden Calves to prevent the return of the People to their old Master by going up to Jerusalem to worship Thou art waxen fat thou art grown thick thou art covered with fatness This variety of Expressions is used to signifie how exceeding bountifully God had provided for them and withal how very wanton and insolent they were grown as Cattle fed in a fat Pasture are wont to be The words with fatness after covered are not in the Hebrew but are well supplied out of other places particularly XVII Psal 10. Then he forsook God The Hierusalem Targum here hath it they forsook the WORD of God Which made him Advanced them from a desert where he found them v. 6 10. into a very rich and plentiful Country This was the lamentable effect of their Plethora or Fulness unto which we are all too prone as an excellent Person of our own hath long ago observed Even such as seem most upright saith he when they wax fat spurn with the heel and cast away the memory of their Misery and of God's former Mercy behind their backs And what was the reason that the Israelites waxed thus full and fat Only because they did not use that Exercise which God had appointed to keep them under and preserve their Hearts from being lifted up VIII Deut. 11 c. Take heed to thy self lest when thou hast eaten and filled thy self c. then thy heart be lifted up and thou forget the LORD thy God which brought thee out of the Land of Egypt c. The daily and lively Representation or Recognition of their Condition there should have been as usual to them as their Meat and Drink yea as it were their Thanksgiving before and after Meats as our Dr. Jackson speaks Book XI on the Creed Chap. XXXIV And Maimonides himself mentioning those very words Lest when thou hast eaten and filled thy self c. very well observes That to prevent Pride and Apostasy which grow out of great Plenty God commanded them to offer their First-fruits before him every year with a solemn Confession how poor they were in the beginning and then raised by God to be a mighty People XXVI Deut. 5 6 c. For which end the Passover was instituted That they might remember the day when they came forth out of Egypt all the days of their Life XVI Deut. 3. See More Nevochim P. II. Cap. XXXIX .. And lightly esteemed the Rock of their Salvation As there was a progress in their insolent forgetfulness of God expressed in three Phrases which may signifie three degrees of their stupidity waxen fat grown thick and covered with fatness so some observe as many degrees of their Rebellion First They kicked against God i. e. threw off the Yoke of his Laws and refused to observe them Secondly They forsook God and fell into Idolatry And lastly They lightly esteemed the Rock of their Salvation Where the Hebrew word nibbel signifies more than a light esteem for if it come from Nebelah a dead Carcase as some think it doth it denotes the greatest abhorrence nothing being so much abominated among the Jews as a dead Carcase the touching of which was the highest pollution And thus J. Cocceius and Campeg Vitringa understand it who observe that this was never so fulfilled as in their behaviour towards our Lord Christ who was indeed the Rock of their Salvation and so vilely used by them as if he had been the most loathsome Man upon Earth So Vitringa expounds these words in his Observ Sacr. Lib. II. Cap. IX p. 173. instar flagitij tractavit rupem salutis suae For this is a word used by God himself when he would express his utter detestation of Nineveh and his dealing with her according to her abominable Wickedness III Nahum 6. I will cast abominable filth upon thee and make thee vile c. and when he speaks of the disgrace he would put upon his own Temple XIV Jerem. 21. The LXX indeed simply expound the word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 he departed but the last words they expound 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 from God his Saviour as Onkelos also his most mighty Redeemer Which in the most eminent sense is the LORD Jesus for none brought such Salvation to them and wrought such a Redemption for them as he did who is the Stone which God laid in Sion c. XXVIII Isa 16. But instead of flying to him as Men in danger do to a Rock or strong Fortress they not only rejected him but abused and put the highest Indignities upon him Verse 16 Ver. 16. They provoked him to jealousie Made him extreamly angry with them For so Jealousie is described as the Rage of a Man VI Prov. 34. With strange gods Whom they fell in love withal and worshipped This was the ground of his Jealousie their falsness to God who had espoused them to himself And the Hebrew word zar strange we sometimes translate another XIX Job 27. So that a strange god and another god are the very same LXXXI Psal 9. XX Exod. 3. Therefore God saith he will not give his glory to another XLII Isa 8. and that their Sorrows shall be multiplied that hasten after another god XVI Psal 4. With abominations provoked they him to anger I take this to be a Repetition of the same thing their Idols being called Abominations because God exceedingly hates them VII 25. 1 Kings XI 5. Tho' R. Solomon and Abarbinel by Abominations here understand those filthy Mixtures forbidden in Levit. XVIII with Witchcrafts and such like Wickedness And Abarbinel refers the first part of this Verse to the times under the first Temple when they worshipped the Sun Moon and Stars and the latter part of it to the times under the second Temple when though they were free from Idolatry they were corrupted with other abominable filthiness Ver. 17. They sacrificed to Devils and not to God Verse 17 The Hebrew word Schedim which we translate Devils imports as much as Destroyers as the Devil is called in the Book of Revelation IX 11. Evil Spirits delighting in Mischief and leading those that worship them into Perdition Though some think they are called Schedim ironically by way of Scorn the true God being Schaddai the Omnipotent and All-sufficient and these called by way of mockery counterfeit gods who had no power to help their Worshippers nor were sufficient to preserve themselves Either of these