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A Commentary
Chapter votions in my Temple, and thereby bring a Re-
XX. proach upon my Name and Worfhip. See Chap.
L/V^O xxiii. 37, $8, 39.
Ver. 40. Ver. 40. For in my holy Mountain, in the Mountain
of the height of Ifrael.~\ In the Chriftian
Church, called God's holy Mountain in alluflon to
the Temple at Jerufalem, built upon Mount Moriah:
See the Notes upon Chap. xvii. 23. and Ifa.
ii. 2. The Prophet fpeaks here of the Jews as con-
verted and united to the Chriftian Church : tho*
fome Learned Men are willing to believe that upon
their Converfion and Return to their own
Countrey, certain Privileges fhall belong to the
Earthly Jerufalem, as the Metropolis of that Nati-
on. See IfaAxv. 18, 19. lxvi. 20. Jerem. iii. 17.
Joel. iii. 1 7, 8cc.
Ibid. There fiall all the Houfe of Ifrael, all of
them in the Land ferve me.~] There fhall be no more
any fuch Separation among you, as was when the
Ten Tribes forfook the Worfhip of God at Jerusalem.
See Chap xxxvii. 22, 23.
Ibid. There will I accept them, and there will
I require your Offerings and the Firfl-Fruits of your
Oblations, &-c.j Requiring fignifies the fame with
eAccepting, by a Metonymy of the Caufe for the
Effecl: : juft as Seeking is fometimes ufed for Finding
: See Ifa. Ixv. 1. In the fame Senfe God is faid
not to require fuch Inftances of Worfhip, in which
he takes no delight : Ifa. i. 11. Offerings fignify
in general every thing devoted to God's Service,
fo as to comprehend Tithes under it, Numb. xviiL
21, 26. The Firft-Fruits were offered out of the
Fruits of the Earth which were firft ripe : Of this
kind was a Sheaf of the Corn which was firft
reaped,