virgine] For if she were married she was of another Family, and to be buried, and mourned for by her kindred of that family; but the Priest was permitted to mourn for his next kindred onely, and of his kindred for onely sixe of both Sexes, viz. his father, and mother, for his sonne, and his daughter, his brother, and sister if she were a virgin, els not; the wife is not mentioned; yet since none of these is so neere as the wife, (for man and wife are one flesh) she is to be conceived as virtually included, or reasonably presupposed in the naming of the rest: and whereas Ezekiel is forbidden to mourn for his wife, Chap. 24. 16, 17, 18. it seemes by the expresse prohibition, to be an extraordinary exception, from an ordinary rule, or practise. And whereas Eleazar and Ithamar were forbidden to lament the death of Nadab and Abihu their brethren, Chap. 10. 6. the reason is, because they died as malefactors, by divine vengeance, in which respect their mourning for them would have been a kind of murmuring against God himselfe; besides, if they had defiled themselves, the service of God must have beene intermitted longer then was meet for their sakes, there being no other at that time to performe service in that kinde.