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SYNOPSIS OF CRITICISMS.

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SYNOPSIS OF CRITICISMS

UPON THOSE

PASSAGES OF THE OLD TESTAMENT,

IN WHICH

MODERN COMMENTATORS HAVE DIFFERED

FROM THE

AUTHORIZED VERSION;

TOGETHER WITH AN EXPLANATION OF VARIOUS DIFFICULTIES IN
THE HEBREW AND ENGLISH TEXTS.

BY THE REV. RICHARD A. F. BARRETT, M. A.,

FELLOW OF KING'S COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE.

All flesh is as grass,

And all the glory of man as the flower of grass,

The grass withereth,

And the flower thereof falleth away;

But the word of the LORD endureth for ever.--1 PETER i. 24, 25.

VOLUME I.-PART II.

LONDON:

LONGMAN, BROWN, GREEN, AND LONGMANS.

MDCCCXLVII.

Prof. J. H. Thaver

March 20. 1902.

(977)

ALEXANDER MACINTOSH,

PRINTER,

GREAT NEW-STREET, LONDON.

matter in his More Nevoch., par. iii., cap. 41,

took violently, of an open robber, he gives

Heb., Ver. 2; Au. Ver., 9.

צַו אֶת־אַהֲרֹן וְאֶת־בָּנָיו לֵאמֹר זאת where, expounding these words, which he תּוֹרַת הָעֹלָה הִוא הָעֹלָה עַל מוֹקְדָה these reasons why he was not punished so עַל־הַמִּזְבֵּחַ כָּל־הַלַּיְלָה עַד־הַבֹּקֶר וְאֵשׁ -much as a thief, but restored only the prin

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cipal, with a fifth part; because rapine happens seldom, but theft often; for it cannot be committed so easily as theft; and is done openly and manifestly, whereas theft is committed more secretly: so that a man may be aware (he imagines) of a robber, and defend his goods against him, better than a secret thief.

Au. Ver.The thing which he has deceitfully gotten.

ἔντειλαι τῷ ̓Ααρὼν καὶ τοῖς υἱοῖς αὐτοῦ, éywv. οὗτος ὁ νόμος τῆς ὁλοκαυτώσεως. αὐτὴ ἡ ὁλοκαύτωσις ἐπὶ τῆς καύσεως αὐτῆς ἐπὶ τοῦ θυσιαστηρίου ὅλην τὴν νύκτα ἕως τοπρωί, καὶ τὸ πῦρ τοῦ θυσιαστηρίου καυθήσεται ἐπ ̓ αὐτοῦ, οὐ σβεσθήσεται.

Au. Ver.-9 Command Aaron and his Others. Which he has gotten by oppres- sons, saying, This is the law of the burnt sion. See notes on verse 3.

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offering: It is the burnt offering, because of the burning [or, for the burning] upon the altar all night unto the morning, and the fire of the altar shall be burning in it.

Bp. Patrick. It is the burnt offering.] He explains what burnt ofering he chiefly means, viz., the daily sacrifice; which was the principal burnt offering, according to which all other offerings of that kind were to be regulated.

Because of the burning upon the altar all night unto the morning.] Or, for the burning upon the altar, &c. This was the reason of its name, because it was burning on the altar from the evening (at which the Jews began their day) till the morning. For which purpose the priests watched all night, and put the sacrifice upon the altar piece by piece, that it might be consumed by a slow and gentle fire. As for the morning sacrifice, it is not here mentioned, because it was consumed by a quicker fire; that there might be room for other sacrifices that were commonly offered after it (as appears from morning, not at night. But if there were no ver. 12), and were only offered in the other sacrifices to succeed it in the morning, burning till the evening sacrifice; that God's then, it is very likely, that it was also kept altar might always have meat upon it.

So

in it.] Or, For the fire of the altar, &c.
And the fire of the altar shall be burning
it should be translated: unless we translate
the last word not in it, but by it. And the
fire of the altar shall be burning (i.c., be
fed or maintained) by it.

Bp. Horsley. (It is the burnt-offering, &c.) Rather, "The burnt-offering must remain upon the burning fuel upon the altar all night, unto the morning, and the

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