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A Commentary
Chapter Ibid. ThsTruh thereof foall be for Meat y find the
XLV1I. Leaf thereof for Medicine,'] As the Waters ifliiing
txw; from the Sanctuary have an healing Vertue: See ver.
8. fo the Leaves or. the Trees fhall have the fame
Quality. The Expreffion alludes to the Opinion
commonly received among Naturalifts and Phyfi-
v .
cians, that the Leaves offeveral Trees are Medicinal.
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Ver.
Borders
13. This fhall be the Border, &c] The
defcribed in the following Part of this
Chapter, fhall be the Limits or Boundaries of your
Country. By the ieveral Captivities both of ijrael
and JudaJ^ the feveral Limits or Borders belong-
ing to the Inheritance of each Tribe were oblitera-
ted and forgotten :
Whereupon here is a new Boun-
dary and Divifion made of the Holy Land, a full
PoflefliorTof which they might have expected to
enjoy, if their Sins had not prevented iuch a BleC-
fing. This may perhaps be the literal Senfe of the
following Part of the Prophecy ; though there is
without QuefHon a myltical Senfe implied under
this literal Defcription : See the Note on Chapt.
xlviii. 7, 20.
Ibid. Jofeph fhall have two Portions.]XJ$on Reubens
forfeiting his Birth-right, the double Portion
belonging to the Firft-born, accrued to Jofeplfs
two Sons, Manaffeh and Ephraim 3 according to
"Jacob's own Appointment : See Gen. xlviii. 5.
1 Chron. v. 1.
Ver. 14. And ye Jhall inherit it 3 one as well as
Ver. 14. another ] The Ten Tubes which are fcattered abroad,
(See Chapt. xlviii.
as well as Judah and Benjamin :
i, 7, 23, 27.) who together with fome of the Fa-
milies of the Tribe of Levi, made up the principal
part of thofe who returned from the Baby
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