Ʋncover not] Put not off your Mitres and Bonnets, to put on the covering of mourners (whose custome is to have their heads covered in an especiall manner, 2 Samuel 15:30. & 2 Samuel 19:4. Jer. 14. 3, 4.) as though ye lamented for them, preferring your naturall affections before the Divine judgements, Chap. 19. 28. Deuteronomy 14:1. & Chap. 33. 9.
upon all the people] The Priests, if they be good, may blesse the people; if bad, may be like to bring curses upon them.
bewaile the burning] Not so much in pity to them, as in devotion to God; whose honour impeached by their presumption, is more cause of mourning then their death who justly deserved it.
kindled] In destroying Nadab and Abihu, and menacing the rest unlesse they repent.