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6o A Commentary
Chapter committed, by thus introducing him into the
VIIL Rooms where they were pra&iied.
L/"V*VJ Ibid. oAnd when I had digged in the Wall, behold
a c Door.~] Whid had been -made up, and another
more fecret Entrance contriv'd, that they
might go in and out unobferv'd.
Ver. 9. Ver. 9. oAnd he [aid unto me, Go in, &c] Togive
me the fulleft Conviction I did not only peep
thro' the Hole, mentioned Ver. 8. but went into
the very Room where theie Idolatries were com-
mitted.
Ver. 10. Ver. 10. So I went in and beheld—every form of
creeping things and abominable 'Beafts pourtrayed
upon the Walls round about.,] Pictures were as much
prohibited by the Law as Carved Images : See
Numb, xsxiii. $3.
The worfhipping Serpents and other brute Creatures
were Idolatries pra&ifed in Egypt, and upon
that Account particularly forbidden by Mojes *
'Deut. iv. 17, 18.
Ver. 11. Ver. 11. cAnd there flood before them feventy
Men of the oAncients of the Houfe oflfraelj] Thofe
probably were the Members of the Sanhedrim, or
great Council of the Jews.
rem. xxvi. 19. The place
See the Note on Je-
of this Idolatry was
» near the Council-Chamber where they ufed to fit
Ver. 12.
See Ver. 7.
Ver. 12. Haft thou feen what the eAntients of
the Houfe of Ifrael do in the dark.'] See Ver. 7. 8.
Ibid. For they fay, The Lord feeth us not, the
Lord hath forfaken the Earthy They either deny
the Being and Providence of God, See Chap. ix.
9. or elfe they fay in their Hearts, God hath caft
us off, and withdrawn his wonted Protection from
us.