Annotations upon all the New Testament philologicall and theologicall wherein the emphasis and elegancie of the Greeke is observed, some imperfections in our translation are discovered, divers Jewish rites and customes tending to illustrate the text are mentioned, many antilogies and seeming contradictions reconciled, severall darke and obscure places opened, sundry passages vindicated from the false glosses of papists and hereticks / by Edward Leigh ...

CHAP. IX.

Vers. 4. WHerein or in which was the golden Pot that had Manna, and Aarons Rod that budded, and the Tables of the Covenant] He saith that there were three things laid up in the Arke, the Pot of Manna, Aarons Rod, and the Tables of the Covenant.* 1.1 They conceit it well, that say the Arke is the Church, the Tables the word, the Manna the Sacraments, and the Rod the discipline.

Ob. 1 Kings 8, 9. and 2 Chron. 5.10. It is said, there was nothing in the Arke, (save the two Tables of Stone) Paul saith besides these there was Aarons Rod, and the golden Pot having Manna.

Sol. 1. Which here hath relation (say * 1.2 some) to the remote antecedent, which Ta∣bernacle, not Arke. Pareus saith this is a forced construction. 2. Others * 1.3 say that they were not included in the body of the Ark, but conveniently placed about it; this seemes most probable; for may be interpreted not onely in, but with, neer, about, as Iudges 18.12. Luke 9.31. and 13.33. and so it may be rendred, with, or about which, Pareus gives this answer. God Commanded the two Tables to be placed in the Arke, Exodus 25.21. Deut. 10.5. He commanded the Pot of Manna to be kept be∣fore the Arke of the Testimony, and there Aaron is said to have put it, v. 34. Also he commanded Aarons greene Rod to be laid before the Arke for a Signe to the Re∣bels, Numb. 17.10. And it is unquestionable that these three were kept in or neer the Ark, as long as the Tabernacle continued. But the Temple being built by Salo∣mon, onely the Tables are said to have been kept in the Ark; the other things being fitly disposed in the holy place. ••he Apostle therefore having respect to the first dispo∣sition, which was in the Tabernacle, before the Temple was built, relates nothing strange from the History.

Vers. 7. But into the second went the High Priest alone once every yeer, not without bloud which be offered for himselfe▪ and the errours of the people] The High Priest onely once a yeare,* 1.4 viz. on the day of expiation, might enter into the Sanctum Sanctorum; and that not without incense, and pretious sacrifices. See Levit. 16.2.29.33. That by this meanes, both the High Priest and people might be struck with a reverence of the place, and God dwelling there, saith * 1.5 Menochius. This bloud here mentioned, was a type of the bloud of Christ, wherewith the Church is to be cleansed, as the High Priest himself was a type of Christ, saith Eslius.

Vers. 10. And carnall Ordinances] Such as carnall men might easily performe, and as were very suitable to the disposition of a carnall heart. Mr. Hildersam.

Vntill the time of reformation] Greek, the time of correction; that is, the time of Christs revealing,* 1.6 who was the body of all those shadowes.

Vers. 14. Through the eternall Spirit] That is, the divine power of his Godhead.* 1.7

Purge your conscience] That is, free you, 1. from the guilt and punishment of sinnes; the guilt of sinne lies heavy on the conscience. 2. the dominion of sinne, to serve it in the lusts thereof.

From dead works] Sinnes are called dead works. 1. Workes, because the soule is busie about sinne, as a man about his work. So Eph 5.11. 1 Iohn 3.8. 2 Dead,* 1.8 partly to make the comparison more compleat; they were ceremonially dead by touching dead carcasses, so inwardly by sinne; and as a dead carcasse is loathsome and odious, so sinne, Ezek. 36.31.2 In respect of the effects, they bring forth death, Rom. 6.21. they leave a sentence of death upon the conscience till the vertue of Christs blood be applied.

To serve the living God] Here is the end of their purging; we are not washed by Christ that we should defile our selves again; but our purity must serve to Gods glory, and nothing can come from us which will be acceptable to God, untill we be purged with the blood of Christ; and it is an elegant between dead works and the living God.

Vers. 23. With better Sacrifices then these] Then those of the old Testament; not in substance, but in manner of exhibiting.* 1.9 Christ was then slain onely in types and figures; in the new Testament there is a reall and personall offering up of Christ himselfe. Bulkley on the Covenant.

Vers. 24. Now to appeare in the presence of God] Verbum forense, an expression bor∣rowed from the custome of humane courts:* 1.10 for in them when the Plantiffe or De∣fendant is called, their Attorney appeareth in their behalfe, 1 Iohn 1.2. The Leviti∣call Priest was wont to appeare before God in the peoples name; he was but a figure; in Christ is the solid truth and full effect of the figure.

Vers. 27. And as it is appointed to men once to die] It is a generall Law given for men to die; if it happen to any otherwise, as to Enoch and Elias, those are nothing,* 1.11 saith Grotius, to so great a multitude of men dying; so ye may say for those that shall be found alive when Christ shall come to judgement.

Once to die] The word once (say some) is not to be referred to die, as if there were some suspition that man could die twice; but to appoint, it was once appointed, and that once shall stand.

And after death the judgement] Some understand this of the particular judgement, the judgement which God passeth upon the soule immediately after death; but Estius interprets it of the generall judgement.

Vers. 28. To bear the sinnes] The word 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, to beare,* 1.12 although it properly sig∣nifies to lift or carry something from a lower place to an higher, or at least from one place to another, yet in this place it simply signifies to take away; so it is used Josh. 24.32. and 2 Sam 21.10. and Ezra 1.11. and Psal. 102.24. For things lifted up are first taken away from the place where they were before: and things taken or carried away from a man must first be raised and lifted up.

He shall appeare the second time without sinne unto salvation] Christ comes but twice corporally, once to merit salvation,* 1.13 and again to perfect it.

Notes

• * 1.1

  Vide Menoch. de Repub. Heb. l. 5. c. 2.
• * 1.2

  Ribera, Iunius in Paralel. l. 3. Vide Crotium in loc. See Weems his Christian Synagogue, p. 89.
• * 1.3

  Estius. Gerh. à Lapide in loc. Facilia est hu•••• locorum concili∣atio: vrnam & vrgam Aaron Deui jusse at coram Testimo∣nio repait. Quate probabile est, in arca simul cum tabulis fuisse inclusas. Quum autem templum extructum est, tunc ordine singula digeruntur. Calv••nus.
• * 1.4

  Quanquam di∣citur summus sacerdos semel intrasse, id in∣telligendum quod uno tantū die intraverit, non quod non aliquoties exi∣crit & rursus intrarit. Vide Levit. 16.14, 15. Primùm caim intrare eum oportuit batilli inferendi causa: deinde suffitús: deinde sanguinis vi∣tula: primum, deinde & hirciul. Itaque quater illo die eum intrasse ait Moses Rotzi recte. Grotius.
• * 1.5

  De Republica Hebraeorum l. 3. c. 7. Vide Cunaeum de Repub. Heb. l. 2. c. 4.
• * 1.6

  Tempus corre∣ctionis] allu∣dit ad vaticinium Jeremiae 31.37. Novum enim testamentum veteri instar correctionis successit. Calvinus.
• * 1.7

  Passus est Chri∣stus ut homo, sed ut mors illa nobis salvifica esset, proveniebat ex efficacia Spiritûs. Ideo Spiritum vocat aeternum, ut sciamus, reconciliationem, cujus est effector, aeternam esse. Calvinus. vide Bezam.
• * 1.8

  Mortua opera intellige vel quae mortem gene∣rant, vel quae fructus sunt mortis. Nam cum animae vita sit nostra cum Deo coniunctio, qui alienati sunt per peccatum verè censentur mortui. Calvinus.
• * 1.9

  Potiores victi∣mas pro victi∣ma, quia tan∣tùm una est: sed propter antithesim plurali numero liberè abusus est. Calvinus.
• * 1.10

  Perstat in simi∣litudine. Nam & summus sacerdos dicitus apud Deum ap∣parere, ubi stat apud Arcam. Sic Christus apparet coram solio majestatis ut nostras res Deo commendet, supra 7.25. Grotius.
• * 1.11

  Statutum regu∣lare est; illos autem non mori singulare est. Ca∣jetanus in loc. Si quis objiciat his quosdam esse mortuos, at La∣zarum & simi∣les: expedita est solutio, Apostolum hic de ordinaria hominum conditione disputare, quin etiam ab hoc ordine eximantur quos subita immutatio corruptione exuet: quia non comprehendit nisi eos qui diu in pulvere corporum suorum redemptionem expectant. Calvinus.
• * 1.12

  Vide Bezam.
• * 1.13

  Dr. Taylor.