his ordinances, rich and poor meet together; the Lord is the Maker, the Lord Christ is the Redeemer of them both, (Prov. xxii. 2).-Exod. xxx. 11-16.

To this law David alludes, (Ps. xxvi. 6), “I will wash mine hands in innocency, so will I compass thine altar, O Lord."Exod. xxx. 17-21.

THE word "pure" properly denotes fluid, which is the best sort of myrrh.-Exod. xxx. 23.

THE Conduct of Moses shows us that eminent persons should avoid ostentation; and rather conceal than make a boast of their attainments and endowments. Also that they should accommodate themselves to the capacities of their weaker brethren, and thus endeavour to abate envy by condescension, being content with that honour which cometh from God. Let all that art, and all that learning, be vailed, which tend to amusement rather than edification.-Exod. xxxiv. 28-35.

SMALL mirrors still form a part of the dress of eastern women. Exod. xxxviii. 8.

Ir is taken for granted that the people would be inclined to bring offerings to the Lord. The very light of nature directs man, some way or other, to do honour to his Maker, and to pay him homage as his Lord. Revealed religion supposes

natural religion.-Lev. i. 1, 2.

WHAT is done in religion, so as to please God, must be done by no other constraint than that of love. It must be offered at the door of the tabernacle, where the brazen altar of burnt offerings stood, which sanctified the gift, and not elsewhere; he must offer it at the door, as one unworthy to enter, and acknowledging that there is no admission for a sinner into covenant and communion with God, but by sacrifice.-Lev. i.

3-9.

THE Oven here mentioned probably was only an earthen vessel in which the fire was made; and, when heated, the dough was applied to the outside in thin cakes, or wafers. Such ovens are now used by the Arabs.-Lev. ii. 4.

AMONG the ancients salt was a symbol of friendship.-Lev. ii. 12-16.

EARS of corn, hastily dried before the fire, are still used as food by the poor in the eastern nations, (2 Kings iv. 42).— Lev. ii. 14.

SOME of the eastern sheep are remarkable for large tails; pieces of board are often fastened to them to secure them from injury. The fat of these tails is considered a great delicacy. Ludolf mentions that they sometimes weigh from twelve to

fourteen pounds; other writers mention a larger weight.— Lev. iii. 9.

THE Jews relate that the fire upon the altar never went out till the captivity in Babylon.-Lev. vi. 13.

GIVE God the fat, the strength and vigour of your spirits, the best of your endeavours. Do not leave the worst you have to him-the dregs of your time at night when sleepy. Reserve some of your good hours to God. With such drowsy sacrifices God will not be well pleased. Take heed of accounting the blood of the peace-offering a common thing. Let the blood of Christ be sacred and precious to you. Dreadful indeed is contempt of Christ, contempt of the Gospel; of those glad tidings, and of that soul-redeeming blood. To you that believe, let Christ be precious.-Lev. vii. 11-34.-Mather.

LET us remember that in this sinful world we are contracting, no ceremonial, but moral pollution every day; and except we are contihually washing in the fountain opened for sin and uncleanness, we can have no fellowship with a holy God on earth, or admission into a holy heaven.-Lev. vii. 11.—Henry and Scott.

EATING Swine's flesh is supposed to have had a tendency to promote the leprosy.-T. H. Horne.

Most of the ceremony peculiar to this case was about the trespass-offering, the lamb for which was offered first. Aud besides the usual rites with which the trespass-offering was offered, some of the blood was to be put upon the leper that was to be cleansed. Several of these ceremonies were the same as those used in the consecration of a priest, (c. viii.) which might teach them a salutary but a humiliating lesson. The purification of a cleansed leper was as the consecration of a priest; the consecration of a priest as the purification of a leper.-Lev. xiv. 10-32.-Henry and Scott.

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VARIOUS opinions have been advanced respecting the word Azazel, here translated scape-goat," which name appears properly given to it on account of its being let go, or dismissed; it thus expresses the evident meaning of the type. There are several traces of this sacrifice in the religious exercises of heathen nations, particularly in the dismissal of a horse among the ancient Hindoos.-Lev. xvi. 8.

THE word here translated devils, means "rough or hairy ones," and is used to denote he-goats, in which form the demons or false gods of the heathen were often represented.Lev. xvii. 7.

THIS sentence, which contains an important truth, had

existed in the writings of Moses, for three thousand years before the attention of any philosopher was drawn to the subject. That the blood actually possesses a living principle, and that the life of the whole body is derived from it, is a doctrine of revelation; and the experiments of the most accurate anatomists have strongly confirmed it. The proper circulation of this important fluid through the whole human system, was first taught by Solomon in figurative language, (Eccles. xii. 6). It was discovered, or demonstrated by Dr. Harvey, A.D. 1628, though some Italian philosophers had the same notion a little before. This accurate anatomist first fully revived the Mosaic notion of the vitality of the blood, which was afterwards adopted and established by Dr. John Hunter-Lev. xvii. 11.-Greenfield.

WE are commanded to rebuke our neighbours in love, ver. 17. Rather rebuke him than hate him, for an injury done to thyself. If we apprehend that our neighbour has any way wronged us, we must not conceive a secret grudge against him, speaking to him neither bad nor good, as the manner of some is, who conceal their displeasure, till they have an opportunity of full revenge, (2 Sam. xiii. 22). We must rather, with the meekness of wisdom, endeavour to convince our brother of the injury, reason the case with him, and so put an end to the disgust conceived. This is the rule our Saviour gives in this case, (Luke xvii. 3.)-Lev. xix.-Henry and Scott.

MOLOCH is supposed to have been an idol worshipped by the Ammonites, and other neighbouring nations, and is generally considered to have been intended for a representation of the sun. To this idol children were sometimes offered as sacrifices. A hollow image of vast size was made of iron; it was heated with great fires beneath, and the children being put into its arms, were burned to death, while their cries were drowned by the noise of musical instruments. At other times the children were only passed through the fire, or between two fires. The worship of the sun, by rites connected with fire, may be traced in the heathen rites of most nations. Some traces of this may be found among the popular superstitions of our own land. In Ireland it is yet customary in some parts, on St. John's Eve, to pass young children through the blaze of a fire, kindled in the open air; but not so as to injure them intentionally, though accidents sometimes occur. In India, the devotees walk barefoot over glowing embers for a considerable distance. The "passing through the fire," (ch. xviii. 21,)

seems to have resembled these rites, and not to have been always attended with the destruction of life.-Lev. xx. 1-9. THERE is many a healthful, beautiful soul lodged in a feeble, deformed body.-Lev. xxi. 21.

It is very observable, that our Lord Jesus rose from the dead on the very day that the first-fruits were offered, to show that he was the substance of this shadow.-Lev. xxiii. 4-14.

THE priests were to give notice of the solemnities, and to call together the holy convocation by the sound of the trumpet. They would have to calculate the seasons of the annual feasts, for the Jewish year consisted only of twelve moons, so that it was about eleven days short of the complete or solar year, and therefore an additional month must have been reckoned or intercalculated every second or third year, that the fifteenth day of the first month might fall at a season of the year when the first-fruits could be offered. The Jewish ecclesiastical year began on different days in our March and April. By this the festivals were calculated. The Jewish civil year, used in computations for common purposes, began in September or October.-Lev. xxiii. 4.

THE harvest time in Judea is from the beginning of April to the beginning of June.-Lev. xxiii. 10.

EACH cake contained about a peck of flour.-Lev. xxiv. 5. BEFORE the congregation stoned him, the witnesses were to lay their hands upon his head. The Jews say that this was used in the execution of no criminals except blasphemers.Lev. xxiv. 10-23.

THE Sabbatical year began in September, at the end of harvest, the seventh month of their ecclesiastical year. The Jews say, they began not to reckon for the Sabbatical year till they had completed the conquest of Canaan, which was in the eighth year of Joshua; the seventh year after that was the first Sabbatical year, and so the fiftieth year was the jubilee.Lev. xxv. 1-7.

THE different sorts of idols to which false worship was paid, are here mentioned. A standing image (margin, "pillar”), means one of those pyramidal or conical forms still reverenced in India.-Lev. xxvi. 1.

THOSE are hasting apace to their own ruin, who begin to think it below them to be religious. Those who cast off the fear of God, expose themselves to the fear of everything else. -Lev. xxvi. 14-39.

THE observance of the Sabbatical year appears to have been

neglected from the accession of Saul to the Babylonish captivity, which was about 490 years. The captivity lasted seventy years, a period equal to the neglected Sabbatical years. This is particularly referred to, 2 Chron. xxxvi. 21.-Lev. xxvi. THE meaning is, that a devoted thing, whether it be man or beast, shall continue as a devoted thing till death-it shail not be redeemed, but shall die in that devoted state; not that it should be put to death because it was devoted.—Lev. xxvii. 29.

THE method of separating the tenth of cattle was, for a man to stand at the entrance of the cattle enclosure with a rod or pole in his hand, with ochre or some colour upon it, and as the animals passed out, he let it fall upon every tenth beast, so as to mark it, and that animal was taken, whether good or bad.-Lev. xxvii. 32.

Ir is a tradition of the Jews that the middle lamp was lighted from the fire on the altar of burnt-offering, and the other lamps from it.-Num. viii. 1-4.

WE should not indulge ourselves in any desire, which we cannot in faith turn into prayer.-Num. xi. 4-9.

Pocock, and other travellers mention that during a great part of the year, the diet of the common people in Egypt consists almost entirely of fish and vegetables. The quantity of cucumbers, melons, and onions grown on the banks of the Nile is very great, and they are much superior in flavour to those of Europe.-Num. xi. 5.

WE must not be forward to condemn and silence those who differ from us, as if they did not follow Christ, because they do not follow him with us, (Mark ix. 38). Shall we reject those whom Christ has owned, or restrain any from doing good, because they are not in everything of our mind? Let the example of Moses be imitated by those in power; let them not despise the advice and assistance of others, but desire it, and be thankful for it, not coveting to monopolize wisdom and power. They who are wisely zealous for God's glory, and truly love the souls of men, will rejoice in the increase of useful instruments, though they should rival and eclipse themselves, (John iii. 26-30).—Num. xi. 24-30.

THE Jewish writers understand the expression, "two cubits. upon the face of the earth," as though they flew at that height from the ground, so as to be caught without difficulty. Ten homers contain more than eighty bushels.-Num. xi. 31.

THE wilderness of Zin must not be confounded with the wilderness of Sin, (Exod. xvi. 1.) The latter was near the Red