Exodus 23

Exodus 23:17

Males] Women among the Jewes, as not Circumcised; so haply may seeme neither to be tied to eate the Passeover, 23 Exod. XXIII. 17. and Ch. XXXIV. 23, 24. Deut. XVI. 16. Yet is this no ground to debar women from the Sacrament of the Lords Supper more then from the Sacrament of Baptisme: the partition-wall being now broken down by Christ, and male and female in him are all one, Gal. III. 8.

Exodus 23:31

Thy bounds] The bounds of the Land of Canaan were

Larger, Ge. XV. 18. Exod. XXIII. 31. Deut. I. 7. and Ch. 11. 24. Josh. I. 4.

Narrower,  Num. XXXIV. 3. &c. Num. XIII. 21. 1 King. VIII. 65. 2 Chron. VII. 8. Judg. XX. 1.

The larger bounds were never possessed and inhabited by the Israelites; at most made Tributary onely in the dayes of David, and Solomon. And the default might be no wise in God; but in the Israelites sinning and breaking with God, Deut. XIX. 8, 9. Yea the narrower bounds, by reason of their sinnes, were scarce at any time fully possessed.