Beflwll  not  come  nigh  to  offer  the  bread  of  his  God.']
L  c.   The  Offerings  wade  by  Fire  before-mentioned  5  ,
which  are  here  plainly  reprefented  as  the  Meat  that
wasferved  up  to  hisT^ble.    See  v+  6.  If  any  of  them
did  prefume  to  offer  at  the  Altar,  there  were  different
Effe&s  of  their  Contumacy  5  according  to  the  diffe
rent  Sorts  of  their  Blemiflies,  which  the  Hebrew  Do*
ftors  divide  into  tlwee  Claffes,  as  I  cbferved  v.  17.     If
any  Man  having  a  Blenrifli  of  the  firft  fort  miniftred,
it  profaned  the  very  Sacrifice  which  he  offered,  and
he  was  to  be  fcourged.     The  fecond  ton  did  not  \i--
tiate  the  Sacrifice,  but  the  Prieft  was  to  imctergo  the
forenamed  punifhment.    The  third  fort  was   fo  -in-
Gonfiderable,  that  neither  of  thefe  Effects  followed,,
upon  bis  miniftring  who  was  blemiftted  by  them  3    as  >

Mr*


43*  A    COMMENTARY

Chapter    Mr,  Selden  obferves,  Lib.  II.  de  Succejf.  in  Pontif.cap.  5.
XXL     p.  234.
A^/-V-^>  Ver.  22.  He  (hall  eat  of  the  bread  of  his  God.~]  But
Verfe  .22,  though  fucfa  a  Prieft  might  not  offer  any  Sacrifice,  yet
he  might  eat  with  his  Brethren  of  that  part  of  the  Sa
crifices,  which  was  given  to  them,  for  their  portion  :
which  no  Man  in  their  Uncleannefs  might  do.  There
fore  thefe  natural  Infirmities  were  not  Legal  Impuri
ties,  but  only  Incapacities  (as  we  fpeak)  which  dif-
abled  them  for  their  Office.  /

Here  again  the  Sacrifices  are  reprefented,  as  the
Provifion  made  for  the  Divine  Majefty.  See  v.  6,

21.
