Leviticus 20

Leviticus 20:3

Will set] The Italian, I will also set] Besides the corporall punishment, I will also accurse him in his soule, cutting him off from all communion with my Church To defile] By intermixing it with prophane idolatry: Leviticus 19:30 To prophane] See upon Leviticus 17:10.

Leviticus 20:4

Hide their eyes] Cloaks the fact, or is carelesse in punishing it, by a wicked connivence.

Leviticus 20:5

I will set] As Leviticus 17:10 Go a whoring] By spirituall fornication of idolatry, see Leviticus 17:7.

Leviticus 20:8

Sanctifie you] All your holinesse consists in fearing, and obeying me, and not in any superstition, or false worship, chosen according to your minde.

Leviticus 20:9

His bloud shall be upon him] Let him beare the punishment of his capitall misdeed: Ezech 18. 13

Leviticus 20:11

His Fathers] His mother in Law: see upon Leviticus 18:8

Leviticus 20:12

Confusion] A forbidden, and abominable mixture of bloud, 〈…〉erting all holy order of Faith in matriony, of progeny, and honesty: See upon Leviticus 18:23

Leviticus 20:14

And they] If the misdeed be committed with th knowledge and consent of the woman.

Leviticus 20:15

The beast] As instrument of that wickednesse, in tken of detestation, for otherwise the Law is for one but such creatures as are endowed with reason, and will: 〈◊〉 Genesis 9:5. Exodus 21:28.

Leviticus 20:20

Be childelesse] Let them be put to death speedily that there may be no execrable issue, of such damnable conjunctions; it being unfitting, that the fruit of holy matrimony should be common to such abominable commixtures.