II. THE LORD OF THE SABBATH.

3. Have ye not read?

Many of our mistakes would be rectified, and our unjust censures of others corrected, if we would but recollect what we have read in the Scripture; appeals that are most convincing.-- M. Henry.

David... an hungered.

Necessity freed him from fault and blame in eating the consecrated bread, which none but the priests might lawfully eat. For in cases of necessity. ceremonial precept must give way to. moral duty. Works of mercy and necessity for preserving our lives, and for the better fitting us for Sabbath services, are certainly lawful for the Sabbath day.-- Burkitt.

They that were with him.

In Samuel, Ahimelech is represented as asking, "Why art thou alone, and no man with thee?" but verse. of. Sam. 21, shows clearly that he was not absolutely alone, only, for. king's son, comparatively unattended.

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