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upon EZEKIEL. 449
River, to the great Sea.~] Comp. Chapt. xlviii. 28. Chapter
The Southern Frontiers fhall be from Engeddi, XLVII.
called Wazazon-tamar, 2 Chron. xx. 2. (See Dr. '>>VV>
Lightfoot's Defeript. of the Land of Ifrael. Chapt.
6.) to the Waters of Meribab or ftrife, in Kadefh,
Deut. xxxii. 52. and from thence to the River of
Egypt. The River of Egypt rifeth out of Mount
Varan, taketh his Courfe weftward to Jibinocorura,
and from thence falls into the Mediterranean called
the great Sea, Verfe 10. See 1 Kings viii. 65. Gen.
xv. 18. Joflj.xv.qj. Ifa. xxvii. 12. where the lxx.
tranflate it, e^ p/vokop^hs , to Rhinocorura, in-
to which it falls. This River feems to be the
fame with Sihor, mentioned Jojh. xiii. 3. tho' that
Name be commonly underftood to fignifie the
Nile : See the Notes upon Jer. ii. 18.
Ver. 20. The weft-fide alfo fhall be the great Sea Ver: 20;
jrom the border.] i. e. From the fouth border men-
tioned in the foregoing Verfe : So Verfe 1 8, from
the border, means the Northern border, mentioned
Verfe 17.
Ibid. Till a Man come over againfl Elamath.~] Or
rather, till a Man come to Ha?nath : For fo the
Particle Nad-Nocah fignifles: See Noldius, p. 657.
Till you come to Uamath the Northern Point toward
the weft Frontier.
Ver. 22. Ye fhall divide it by Lot for an Jnheri- Ver. ?
tance unto you.'] See the Note upon Verfe 14.
Ibid. And to the Strangers that r o)oum among you.]
Foreigners never before had the Privilege of pur-
chafing or pofleffing any Inheritance among the
Jews
: So {his Myftically denotes the Incorpora-
M r\\ m ting