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H4 ^Commentary
Chqoter other Nations, how they follow thine ill Practices*
XVI. See Chap, xxiii. 48.
L/^* nO Ibid. oAnd I will caufe thee to ceafefrom flaying
the Harlot.] See Chan, xxiii. 27.
Vet*. 42. Ver. 42. So will I make my Fury, toward thee to
reft , and my Jealoufy fljall depart from thee, &c]
See Ver. 38. and the Note upon Chap. v. 1^.
Ver. 45. Ver. 4$. Ttecaufe thou haft not
Days ofthy TouthJ] See Ver. 22.
remembred the
Ibid. o,4nd thou fJmlt not commit this Lewdnefs
above all thine ^Abominations.] Thou (halt not add
thefe manifold and fhamelefs Practices of Idolatry
to all thy other Wickednefs. But the Words may
be rend red, Neither haft thou laid to Heart all
Ver. 44.
thefe thine ^Abominations.
Ver » 44- Toehold every o?ie that ufeth Troverbs,
fhall ufe this Troverb againfi thee, &c] They that
love to apply the. memorable Sayings of former
Ages to the prefent Times, fhall apply that common
Saying to thee, that the Daughter follows
her Mother's Steps, and JeruJ'alem is no better than
the oAmorites whofe Land they inhabit, and whofe
Manners they imitate : See Ver. $.
Ver. 45. Ver. 45. Thou art thy Mothers Daughter, that
lotheth her Husband and her Children.'] Both thefe
Qualities are the Property of an Harlot, and were
verified in the Jews, who abhorred God their Husband,
Ver. 8. and caft off all natural Affection to
their Children, facriflcing them in the Fire to the
$ Honour of their Idols : Ver. 20.
Ibid. oAnd thou art the Sifter of thy Sifters;]
Samaria and Sodom : Ver. 46. The Worfhip of
Moloch was generally pra&ifed by the Ten Tribes
whofe Metropolis was Samaria, See 2 Kjngs xviL
17,