the whole rumpe] Even to the back-bone, over against the reines or kidneys (as the Hebrew Text importeth.) This was peculiar to the peace-offering, of a sheepe, a lambe, or ram; but if the peace-offering were an oxe or a goate, it was not so. The offering of the rumpe some interpret to be an intimation of perseverance to the end; but it rather sheweth that there is not the meanest part of the creature, but God hath a right unto it; and that be a thing never so contemptible in it self, God can make it honourable by applying it to his service, in sacrifice, as here; in a Sacrament, as in Circumcision, Gen. 17.