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upon EZEKIEL. 87
file ftyles fuch Perfons, 2 Cor. xi. 1 3. who craftily Chapter
infinuate falfe Doctrines into weak and unftable XIII.
Minds ; and withal hungry and ravenous, and fuch L^V"\J
as greedily catch at any Appearance of Advantage.
Compare Chap. xxii. 25.
Ver. 5. Te have not gone up into the Gaps.2 Or, Ver. 5.
flood in the Gap, or 'Breach, as it is expreffed Chap,
xxii. 30. Tfal. cvi. 2$. Which place alludes to the
Intercefllon which Mofes made for the JJraelites,
whereby he withheld God's Hand, as it were, when
it was juft ftretched out to take Vengeance upon
the People for their heinous Sin, 'in making the
Golden Calf. See Exod. xxxii. 10, 11.
The Phrafe is taken from thofe that put a ftop
to the Enemy when he is juft entring in at a Breach.
In like manner, it was the Office and Duty of thofe
Prophets, if they had truly been what they pre-
tended, by their Prayers and Interceilions to put a
ftop to God's Vengeance when it was juft ready
to be poured out upon a finful People.
Ibid. Nor made tip a Fence for the Houfe of Ifrael.~\
Or, made up a Wall, as the Vulgar Latin
translates it. Another ExprefTion taken from thofe
that are befieged, and if a Breach be made in a
Wall, prefently make it up, or build up a new one
within it: to prevent the Enemy from entring,
and becoming Matters of the City. The Word
Geder, Fence, (ignifies another fort of Fortification
See Tfal. lxii. 3. i x. ix. 40.
Ibid. To /land in the 'Battle in the day of the
Lord.] When God fhall come like a Leader or
General, at the Head of his Army, /. e. his Judgments,
ro execute Vengeance upon his Enemies..
Compare Jer. xxv. 30. Joel ii. 1 1.
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