By lot. Manuscript 2 reads bogurl; (printed benachala) so the Vulgate sortito. (Kennicott) --- Hebrew, "when you shall make the land fall," which usually implies by lot: yet the partition was not made thus, (chap. xlviii. 1.) nor at all, (Calmet) otherwise the prophet might mention how the lots woul... [ Continue Reading ]
_Suburbs. Hebrew also, "vacant spaces."_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Measure, from the centre of the temple; so that the dimensions given must be doubled, (chap. xlviii. 10.) as also ver. 5._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Place. There the priests shall dwell._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Chambers for the Levites on duty. Septuagint read, "towns." But only one seems to be specified, 18,000 cubits in circumference._... [ Continue Reading ]
_According. Hebrew, "along or (Calmet) over-against the oblation of the holy portion." (Protestants) --- Israel, destined to serve the priests. (Haydock)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Border. Two equal lots, one on the east and the other on the west, were assigned the prince, each 20,000 cubits broad, and 12,500 long, chap. xlviii. 21. (Calmet) --- He dwelt near the priests, for their protection; as the people were on both sides of him, that he might sustain no injury. (Worthing... [ Continue Reading ]
_Rob. Instead of their right, (1 Kings viii. 11.) the source of continual vexations, a certain revenue is specified, ver. 13._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Confines: encroach not. (Calmet) --- Hebrew and Septuagint, "take away your oppressions;" (Haydock) Chaldean, "scandals." (Calmet)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_The ephi and the bate. These measures were of equal capacity; but the bate served for liquids, and the ephi for dry things, (Challoner) ver. 13, 14. (Worthington) --- Ezechiel specifies the measures, that the people might not use those of Babylon, after their return._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Sicles. It would be shorter to say, "sixty sicles make a mna."_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Take, for the prince's revenue. He had the sixtieth part of corn and of oil; or rather (Calmet) he had an exact tithe of the latter, ver. 14. (Chaldean) (Menochius)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_One ram. He shall receive the tithe of sheep, &c., and take one out of two hundred, on condition that he furnish victims, ver. 17. (Calmet) --- The obligation was mutual. St. Jerome explains it of the high priest and people. (Worthington)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Holocaust. This was given before perhaps gratis, 2 Paralipomenon xxxi. 3. Solomon and Ezechias shewed great magnificence. After the captivity the people laid on the third of a sicle per head, as this order was not observed, 2 Esdras x. 32._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Take, or order the priests to do this annually, to prepare for the Passover, ver. 21. Moses mentions nothing of this, and it does not appear to have been put in execution. (Calmet) --- Yet it might be the first year after the dedication of the temple. The prophet does not say it was to be done ever... [ Continue Reading ]
_Seventh, or so many days before the solemn feast. Septuagint, "on the first of the seventh month," the feast of trumpets, Numbers xxix. 1. (Calmet)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Sacrifice. Hebrew mincha, flour. Protestants, "meat offering." (Haydock)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Day: the feast of tabernacles, to be observed like the Pasch, Numbers xxix. 12. (Calmet)_... [ Continue Reading ]
CHAPTER XLV.... [ Continue Reading ]