VERS. XXIV.
〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, &c.
A pair of Turtle Doves, &c.
I. a 1.1 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 The Turtles were older, and of a larger size: Pigeons, less, and younger. For it is said of Pigeons, two young Pigeons, but not so of Turtles.
This was called 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 the offering of the poor; which if a rich man offered, 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 he did not do his duty. And when the Doctors speak so often of 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 an of∣fering rising or falling, it hath respect to this. For the offering of the richer sort was a Lamb; but if his hand could not reach to a Lamb, then he offered a pair of Turtles, or Pi∣geons. 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 But if he was poor, he offered the tenth part of an Ephah, there∣fore is the oblation said to be rising or falling b 1.2.
c 1.3 King Agrippa came one day to offer a thousand burnt offerings, but a certain poor man prevented him with two Turtle Doves. So also, when one would have offered a Bullock, there was a poor man prevented him with an handful of Herbs. We have the story at large in Vaji••ra rabb. d 1.4.
II. Of the two Turtle Doves, or young Pigeons, one was to be offered as a burnt∣offering, the other as a sin-offering. But as to the particular appointment of the one for the burnt-offering, the other for the sin-offering, that is which should be which, it is disputed among the Doctors, whether it lay in the breast of him or her that offered it or the Priests to determine it e 1.5.
By the way we may observe, that the blessed Virgin offers a sin-offering for her self. Now, what the meaning and design of a sin-offering was, is evident from Levit. IV. & V.