VERS. XXIV.
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Neither Store-house nor Barn.
I Am mistaken if the Jerusalem Writers would not render it 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 for 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 was the Store-house where they laid up their fruits, and 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 was the Barn where they laid up their grain. It is commonly rendred the floor, but there it is meant the Barn floor. Our Saviour takes an instance from God feeding the Ravens. m 1.1 It is R. Solomon's remark: Our Rabbins observe that the Raven is cruel toward its young, but God pitieth them, and provides them flees that breed out of their own dung. Now the reason they give why the old ones are so unmerciful to their own young, is in Che∣tabboth n 1.2, where the Gloss thus explains the mind of the Gemarists speaking of the young ones 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 both white and black: when they grow black, the old ones begin to love their young, but while they are all white they loath them.
In that very place there occurs this passage not unworthy our transcribing. There was a certain man brought before Rabh Judah, because he refused to provoide for his Chil∣dren: saith he to those that brought him 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 the Dragon brings forth, and lays her young in the Town to be nourisht up. When he was brought to Rabh Chasda, he saith unto them, compel him to the door of the Synagogue, and there let him stand, and say 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 the Raven seeks her young ones, but this Man doth not seek [or own] his Children: But doth the Raven seek her young ones? behold it is written, God feedeth the Ravens which cry unto him. 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 This hath no difficulty in it. 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 This is said of them while they are white, that God feeds them, but that is said of them when they are become black, that the Raven owneth her young. But the Gloss hath it thus: It seems as if he with his own voice should cry out against himself and say, the Raven owneth her young. But there are those that expound it, as if the minister of the Synagogue should set him forth and proclaim upon him, the Raven acknowledgeth her young, but this man rejects his own Children. Tell it to the Church, Matth. XVIII. 17.