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Show I 4-·2 of the Pharifeet. -t I B. T. tors were wont to wear, termed, by reafon of thofe bro.adjiuds and wo~/t,rwow:n in it, Laticlaviiii1J: but feemg that thefe PhylalJeries were additaments and cpMr njoKot · h f h ) r .t.. 4 cepr,affirm. orna~ents, w ei'eo t ere were (e two ,or.ts, ·t-ue 2~._ one tted to their Ft?re:=het~ds, the other. to thetr L·eft-hDZndJ 7 hence it followeth, that bythefe PhjlalJeries could not be meant whole garments, or any embofments, or fiourHhings woven in the cloth. Generally they are thought to be fchedules or fcroles of parch· ments, whereof, as I noted, there were two forts; Phy· la{}eriesfor ·the Fore-head, or Frontlets, reaching from one Ear to the other, &nd tied behind with a thong ; and PhylalJeries for the head,fafined upo,t the Left· arm above the Elbow.. on the in/ide, that it might be near the heart. Both thefe forts were worn, not by the P hari-r M~i"!on,in (ee! on I y, {f) but by the s add11ce s aiLe , but with J:~~~~tm, '·4· th1sdi~erence; The ~harifees, haply for greater ofientatton, wore thetr Hand- PhylatJeries above their g Sc•l, tri. Elhows: the Sadduces on the palms of their Hands. (g) h~r~J.t~~$8· Nay, all the Jefl'.t wore them, our Saviour chrift not excepted. The command was general, Exod.13.9·lt 'hall b~ for a fign unto thee upon thine hand,and tor a memortal between thine eyes. So that it is not the wearing of them which our Savio11r condemned, .but the making of them broad, whereby they would api. pear more holy than others. ~~~:!J~ · ~ In tbefe Parchment sthey wrote (h) on! y the D a a. MA1,23o. /ogRe, or Ten Commandrollnts, ~nthe opinionof chry· JOflome._an~ H_ierome: but ge,nerally, and upon better grounds, It IS thought they wrote thefe four feet ions of the Law. 1. The firfl began, Sanfrifie unto me all the firft· born, &c. Exod. r 3. z. to the end oft he 10 verfe. ~ . T.he. fecond beg~n ~ And it fball be when the Lord _ L I B: I. Of the 'Phari[ee1. Lord fuall bring thee, Q'C• Exod.13•1I. to the end of the I 6. verfe. _ 3· The third began, Hear 0 Ifrael, DeHt.6.4. and continued to the end of the ninth verfe. 4· _The fourth began, ~~d it fhall con1e to pats .; .If you fhal~ hearken dr!tgently, &c. Deut.li. t 3· to the end of the one and twentieth ve.rfe. 43 Thefe four SeCtions written in fcrols of Parchment, and folded upf they fafl:ned to their fore:shead1 and their lef!·arnn: ;t~ofe th"t were tor the fore· headJ they wrote tn four dtfhnCl pieces of parchment (i) e- i Mofe1 Kot4 fpecially, and ' if they wrote it in one piece 5 the fen.jrJI. 104. length of every Section· ended in one column and " 1 ' 1 ' they did put them into one ikin, in which 'there w~s the .proportion_ of four houfes or receptacles., and. not tnto four fk1ns: every receptacle was diftinct by tt felf; and thofe that ·were for the hand were written in one piece of Parchment principally the four Sefrions in four columns; but if they ~rote them in four pieces, it was at length, and they pot t~em in a £kin t~at had l?ut one receptacle, (~) In k Munfler dt ttme of pe~fecutto? when th.ey could nqt openly pr~cepr.lljfirm. wear thefe PhylafJertes,. then dtd they tye about their hands a red thread, tO-pUt thfm in mind of the blood ofthe Covenant of the Law. Touching the name Mofes calleth them r'\,9lDOMita-photh, which word hath almoft a5 many Etymologies as I nterpceters ; the moft pr(}babl e in my opinion, is: that they fuould befa called per .Antiphrafin, from C.,ttJolncedere,to go or move,becauf~ they were immoveable: Hence the sept11agint tranfiate them, ci~oc;..c_u1tt. . ·Immoveable ornaments. The Rabbins call them Tephil· lim, Prayer ornaments: (l) others call them Pil't4cia & 1 n· . P'tl • l f · ...11' h. fi .6 . ) teronymoTfl 1 11&10 a, rom .. .,.,'T,~""'' w tch 1gnt eth a ptece or Mat.2 3· G 2 parcel |