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66 ^Commentary
Chapter called the Gate ofNicanor : whereas this is fuppo
IX. fed to be on the North fide of the Temple and
tyVSJ Altar, becaufe there the Sacrifices were ordered
to be flain. See Levit, i. n. and the Note upon
the following Words. Six Slaughtermen came like
fo many Levites, expecting an Order from the
chief facrificing Prieft, which Beaft to flay, and
at what time.
Ibid. oAnd one Man among them was cloathed
with Linnen.~] That is, an Angel (See Ver. 4.
and compare Chap. xl. 5. xliii. 6.) who was to
fupply the Place of the ch ief facrificing Pried. Angels
as Miniftring Spirits always attending upon
God's Service, are fometimes defcribed in the Habit
of Priefts, fee Revel, xv. 5, 6. As God's Minifters
for the fame Reafon have the Title of Angels
given them, Revel, i. 20.
Ibid. With a Writers Inkhorn by his fide.~] To
fet a Mark on thofe that were to be faved from the
common Deftruttion. But the LXX tranflate the
"Words, With a Girdle of Saphire, or Embroidery
upon his Loins : which agrees better with what
goes before, as being part of the Prieft's Habit,
Exod* xxviii. 8. and the above-cited place in the
Revelation. And this Interpretation of the Phrafe
Dr. Caflell follows in his Lexicon, in the Word
Kffeth.
Ibid. (And they went and flood by the brazen
&4ltar.~\ To denote that the Men ordained to Deftru&ion
were offered up as fo many Sacrifices, to
make an Atonement to God's Juftice. The deftrufrion
of the Wicked is elfewhere expreffed by
the Name of a Sacrifice: See Chap, xxxix. 17.
Ifa. xxix. 2. xxxiv. 6.
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