Ver.  24.  Then  will  1  alfo  wal/^  contrary  unto  you.  ]  Verfe
S^rve  you  in  your  kind  5  and  dill  make  your  Plagues
more  grievous,  as  your  Stubbornnefs  grows  more  ob-
ftinate.  To  what  was  faid  before  ot  this  matter,  i
fliall  add  the  Interpretation  of  Maimonides  in  his  More
Nevoch.  P.  III.  cap.  36.  where  he  thus  glofles  on  this
p'ace :  '  If  when  I  inflift  upon  you  thefe  Punifla-
4  ments,  you  believe  them  to  be  accidental  things,
c  meer  Chances  (fohe  underftandsthe  work  ken,  which
6  wetranllate  contrary}  then  will  I  deal  with  you  ac-
4  cording  to  your  Opinion,  and  lay  more  heavy  Pu-

*  nifliments  upon  you.      For  becanfe  they  believed
4  thefe  Plagues  hapned  by  accident ,  which  were  the

*  Confequents  of  their  falfe  Opinions  and  evil  Works,

*  therefore  they   did  not  reform  them:  as  Jeremiah

*  faith,  V.  3.  Thou  haft  ftrickgn  them,  but  they  have  not
'grieved.     Thus  he,

And  will  punifo you  yet  feven  times  for  your  fins.  ~\  If
we  fhould  follow  the  literal  Expofition  mention
ed^.  21.  thenthofe  Plagues  there  threatned  being  fe-
ven  times  multiplied^  would  make  the  Plagues  threat
ned  in  this  Verfe,  for  their  multiplied  Tranfgreffions,
three  hundred  and  forty  three  times  greater  than  the  firft,
v.  1 8.  But  the  meaning  is  only,  that  they  fhould  (till
grow  more  numerous,  and  more  deftru&ive.  ? ',. :

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548  A    COMMENTA^T

Chapter       Ver.  25.  And  I  mU  bring  afword  upon  yon."}     This
XXVI.    feems  to  be  no  Plague,  having  been  before  threat-
*^^v^  ned  v.  17.     Therefore  the  meaning  is,  that  he  would
Verfe  25.  fencj  three  fore  Judgments  upon  them,  all  at  the  fame
time,    viz.   War,  Peftiknce^  and  Famine:    which  are
contained  in  this  and  the  next  Verfe.     Of  War  and  Fa
mine  at  once,  See  XIV  Jerem.  18.  XVI.  4.     Of  Pefti-
knce  added  to  them,  together  with  Captivity,  XV.  2.
