neither fat nor bloud] These two are prohibited as not wholesome enough to be mans meate, (as some conceive,) and though they be both forbidden together, yet it is with this difference, that not all fat is forbidden to be eaten, Nehemiah 8:10. but onely the fat of the oxe, or sheepe, or goat offered in sacrifice, Leviticus 7:23. (and this chiefly, the fat of the inwards) or of beasts that die of themselves, or are torne of wilde beasts, vers. 24. and the fat was the fitter for sacrifice, because it would soone take fire, and goe up in the flame; but for bloud, that was more generally forbidden, Leviticus 17:14. 1 Sam. 14. 32, 33, 34. which might be, first, for distinction of the Jews from the Heathens, who used to drink the bloud of their sacrifices: secondly, for morall admonition against crueltie: thirdly, for mysticall intimation of reverence to the bloud of our Saviour, signified by the bloud-shedding of the sacrifices; as David would not drinke of the water of the well of Bethlehem, but poared it out in an offering before the Lord, because it was equivalently (as he called it) the bloud of those who fetched it with the perill of their lives, 2 Samuel 23:17.