John Trapp on Lamentations 4:7
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Lamentations4:7
Ver. 7. Her Nazarites] Who ſerved God in a ſingular way of abſtinence above other men. Theſe had their rules given them, Num. 6. which whiles they obſerved,
They were purer then ſnow, whiter then milk] Temperance is the mother of beauty, as luxury is of deformity. This is nothing to the Popiſh Votaryes thoſe Epicures and Abby-lubbers, Quorum luxuriae totus non ſufficit orbis. Some by Nazarites here underſtand their Nobles and ſuch as wore coronets on their heads: Nezar is a crown, 2 Sam. 1.10. 2 Kings 11.12. thus Joſeph was a Nazarite, Gen. 49.26. So Daniel and his three Aſſociates, in whom that was verified, Gratior eſt pulchro veniens in corpore virtus.
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