A Arons name] Why not Levies name, as well as Reubens, Simeons, &c. Because the question was not so much whether the Tribe of Levi should minister unto the Lord, as whether the Priest-hood should be settled on Aaron, and his sonnes. rod of Levi] Though Aarons name were written on a rod, it was not that rod which he used in working miracles, but an ordinary rod, like the rest of the Tribes; for so the buds, and blossomes, and Almonds that came out of it, might appeare more miraculous: yet some thinke it was the same miraculous rod used in miraculous operations before Pharaoh, because that was laid up before the Lord, Numbers 20:9. and that rod which was laid up before the Lord, was Aarons rod that budded. Hebrews 9:4. unlesse there were two rods laid up, and but one expresly mentioned.