Whosoever cometh any thing near unto the tabernacle of the LORD shall die: shall we be consumed with dying?
Ver. 13. Whosoever cometh anything near.] Let them keep further off then who have no sufficient warrant. Why should they meddle with that belongs not to them? Why should they touch the tabernacle? as the Greek here hath it. The fingers of many triflers itch at this day, to be tampering with that tremendous function, the ministry: which if they forbear to touch, it is but as once Mercury is fain to spare Jupiter's thunderbolts, which he durst not steal, lest they should roar too loud, or at least burn his fingers.