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^Commentary
CK'pter Pencil was under a legal Pollution, and forbid-
XXXVI. den to come within the Courts of the Temple,
C/"Y"NJ or attend upon God's Worfhip there : So the
Defilements the Jews had contracted by their
Idolatries, and other heinous Sins, rendered them
unqualified to be my People, or to offer up any
religious Service to me.
Ver. 18. Ver. *%• Wherefore I poured my Fury ufon
them for the "Blood they had fhed ufon the Land,
and for their Idols, &o] Murder and Idolatry,
two Sins of the fir ft Magnitude, are often joined
together in the Catalogue of National Sins reci-
Ver. 1 9. Ver. 1
ted in this Prophecy :
meaning particularly, the
Blood of their Children, which they offered to
their Idols. See Chap. xvi. 56, 38. xxiii. $7.
9.