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Chapter are unqualified to attend upon God's Service there.
XLIV. See the following Verfes.
ks~v~**j Ver. 6. And jay to the rebellious [Houfe] even to
Ver. 6. %ye J-] ufe of Ifracl.] See Chapt. ii. 5.
Ib'd. Let it fuffice you of all your Abominations.)
Let the Time paft be diffident for you to have
provoked me with your Abominations : See Chapt.
xlv. p. Com p. 1 Pet. iv. 3. We find the fame
Expreflion Numb, xvi. 3. where our Tranflation
reads, ye take too much upon you : But the Phrafe
may more properly be tranflated, Let it Juffice you,
[to have uiurped an Authority hitherto.]
Ver. 7. Ver « 7« ln ^dat y°u hive brought into my Sanctuary,
Strangers uncircumcifed in Heart, &c] In
fetting up Idols within the Precin&s of mine own
Houfe, and appointing idolatrous Priefts to officiate
there : See Chapt. xliii. 8.
Ibid. When ye offer my Bread, my Fat and my
Blood.] At the fame Time that ye offer my Sacrifices
upon the Altar. Or the Words may imply
that they fuffered Heathens to offer at God's
Altar, exprefly againft the Law, Lcvit. xxii. 27.
By Bread may be understood, the Meat-Offerings
made of Flower which accompanied the other
Sacrifices : Altho' every Thing offered upon the
Altar, is properly called the Bread of God :
the Note upon Chapt. xxiii. 41. The Fat
See
and
Blood of every Sacrifice was peculiarly appropriated
to God : See Levit.iii. 16. xvii. 11.
Ibid. And they have broken my Covenant.] Idolatry
was a direct Breach of that Covenant God
had entered into with the Jews, that he would
be their God, and they his People, Levit. xxvii. 12.
Upon which Account it is fo often reprefented un-
der