By Joshua's house is meant, or at least included, 1his household or proper family. That this is a frequent acceptation of the original words translated [house] in the Scripture, for a proper family consult these places: Gen. 7.1. Come thou and all thy house into the Ark, Gen. 18.19. and 30.30. and 31.41. Exod. 12.3. A Lamb for an house, ver. 4. and if the household, Hebrew [house] be too little for the Lamb — ver. 21. — take ye a Lamb according to your families, and kill the Passover; It was said an house before, now families, [Greek or Hebrew] according to your families; both house and family here are taken strictly and properly; for the Passover was to be eaten in every household, if there were ten persons in it (for according to some, there were never less then ten in number, nor more then twenty.*, at the eating of one Lamb at the Passover) if the household were too little for the Lamb, they were to take the next neighbours in, according to the number of persons; and the blood of the Lamb was to be sticken on the two side-posts, and upon the upper door post of the houses, where they did eat it, which was for a token upon such several houses, that they should not be destroyed. Deut. 11.6. and swallowed them up and their households: In the Hebrew [their houses] 1 Sam. 1.21. and 2.36. 2 Kings 10.21. Psal. 101.2, 7. So in the New Testament, Luke 19.9. John 4.53, Acts 10.2. and 11.14. and 16.15, 31, 34. and 18.8. 1 Cor. 1.16. Phil. 4.22. 2 Tim. 1.16. and 4.19. Tit. 1.11. Heb. 11.7. 1 Tim. 3.4. ruling well his own house, i. e. Wife, Children, and Servants. By which it is manifest that frequently by house is understood the persons dwelling together in one house, constituting one particular proper family.
By Joshua's house is meant, or at least included, 1his houshold or proper family. That this is a frequent acceptation of the original words translated [house] in the Scripture, for a proper family consult these places: Gen. 7.1. Come thou and all thy house into the Ark, Gen. 18.19. and 30.30. and 31.41. Exod. 12.3. A Lamb for an house, ver. 4. and if the houshold, Hebrew [house] be too little for the Lamb — ver. 21. — take ye a Lamb according to your families, and kill the Passeover; It was said an house before, now families, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 according to your families; both house and family here are taken strictly and properly; for the Passeover was to be eaten in every houshold, if there were ten persons in it (for according to some, there were never less then ten in number, nor more then twenty.*, at the eating of one Lamb at the Passeover) if the houshold were too little for the Lamb, they were to take the next neighbours in, according to the number of persons; and the blood of the Lamb was to be sticken on the two side-posts, and upon the upper door post of the houses, where they did eat it, which was for a token upon such several houses, that they should not be destroyed. Deut. 11.6. and swallowed them up and their housholds: In the Hebrew [their houses] 1 Sam. 1.21. and 2.36. 2 Kings 10.21. Psal. 101.2, 7. So in the New Testament, Luke 19.9. John 4.53,
- 11. [Greek or Hebrew] in Instrumento veteri non simpliciter pro aedificio capitur, sed pro ipsa familia, [Greek or Hebrew], continens pro contento. Pro quaque familia, nempe mi ore, & in una domo degente. Pisc. t. in loc. Domus patris pro domo in qua est p• terfamilias. Oleaster. Mariana.1. 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 in Instrumento veteri non simpliciter pro aedificio capitur, sed pro ipsa familia, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, continens pro contento. Pro quaque familia, nempe mi ore, & in una domo degente. Pisc. t. in loc. Domus patris pro domo in qua est p• terfamilias. Oleaster. Mariana.
- *Joseph. de bell. Jud. l. 7. c. 17. Prout numerosa fuerit familia ita sibi magnam v l parvam familiam ad. junget. Vatab. in loc. Eodem modo [Greek or Hebrew] & [Greek or Hebrew] Instrumento novo.Joseph. de bell. Jud. l. 7. c. 17. Prout numerosa fuerit familia ita sibi magnam v l parvam familiam ad. junget. Vatab. in loc. Eodem modo 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 & 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 Instrumento novo.
