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upon EZEKIEL. 33
City and Temple were deftroyed, is juft Forty Chapter
Years. IV.
Ibid. / have appointed each 'Day for a Year.] L/^V^O
Days frequently ftand for Years in the Prophetical
Accounts of Time. See Numb. xiv. 34. aAfter
the Number of Forty 'Days, each 'Day for a Tear,
Jljall you bear your Iniquities, even Forty Tears,
'Dan. ix. 24. The Days of the Seventy Weeks muft
necerTarily be underftood in the fame Senfe, fo as
to make up the Sum of Four hundred and ninety
Years. And the One thoufand two hundred and
fixty Days mentioned Revel, xi. }. are according
to the Genius of the Prophetical Style, to be under-
ftood of fo many Years.
Ver. 7. Therefore thou jhalt fet thy Face toward Ver, 7.
the Siege of Jerufalem.l When thou lieft in one
Pofture, as is commanded thee, Ver. 4, 6. thou
fhdt (till have the Portraiture of the Siege of Je.
rufalem before thy Face, Ver. 1. or fetting thy
Face toward the Siege of Jerufalem, may fignify
looking earnestly, or with a threatning Vifage toward
it : as the Prophet is faid to fet his Face againfl
a Place, when he Prophecies againft it. See Chap-
ter vi. 2.
Ibid. aAnd thy oArm fljall be uncovered.'] or
ftretched out. Their Habits were anciently contrived
fo that the Right Arm was difengaged from
the Upper Garments, that they might be the more
ready for A&ion. So ancient Statues and Coins
reprefent Heroes with their right Arm bare, and
out of the Sleeve of their Garments. Thus God
is faid to make bare his