punishment] Or, sinne.
the feast of tabernacles] At this feast Solomons Temple (a figure of Christs body, John 2:19. 21.) was dedicated with great solemnity, and the Ark brought into it, 2 Chronicles 5:2-3; 2 Chronicles 5:7. And this feast we keep by belief in Christ that his grace is sufficient for us, and that in all our infirmities the power of Christ resteth upon us (to protect us as a tabernacle) 2 Corinthians 12:9. The first place where Israel encamped after they came out of Egypt, was called Succoth, that is, boothes, Exodus 12:37.