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A Commentary
Chapter of it to give Credit to your own Dreams and Lies ?
XI II. See Ver. 7.
L/V^J Ibid, for handful]s of "Barley, and for pieces of
'Bread.'] For the meaneft reward : See Trov.
xxviii. 21. So greedy are they of making gain to
themfelves. Compare Chap. xxii. 25. Mkah'm. 5.
Ibid. To flay the Souls that fljould not die, &x ]
Thus they threatned Death to thofe that yielded
themfelves to the Chaldeans in Jechoniahh Capti-
vity : and yet God preferved them alive. See Jerem.
xxix. 5, 6. and they have encouraged thofe
that remain at Jerufalem with Promifes of Peace
and Safety, who fhall all bedeftroyed. See Chap.
v. 12. or the Words may be meant in general of
difcouraging the Godly and confirming the Wicked
in their evil Ways. See Ver. 22. and compare
Jerem. xxiii. 14, 17.
To flay and to make alive, fignify here to promife
Men Life, or threaten them with Death :
See Ver. 22. So the Prophet faith he came todeftroy
the City, Chap.xliii. $. that is, to pronounce
the Sentence of Deftru&ion upon it. And the Prieft
is faid to make the Leper unclean, Levit. xiii. j.
that is, to -pronounce him unclean, as our Tranflation
rightly exprefles the Senfe.
Ver 20 ^er' 2 °* Wherewith ye hunt the Souls to make
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' * them fly.] To make them run into thofe Nets and
Snares that you have laid for them: See Ver. 18.
The Metaphor is continued from the manner of
hunting and purfuing living Creatures, by that
means to drive them into th&rToils prepared for
them.
Ibid.