_Despising: interpretatively; not formally, as Numbers xv. (Estius) --- The Lord, who knows the truth, and is an avenger of all injustice, even the most secret. (Haydock) --- The law inflicts indeed a smaller punishment, as these offences are supposed to be secret, and the offender is thus invited t... [ Continue Reading ]
_Lost. We acquire no title to the thing by finding it. The Roman law, as well as divines, condemn those who appropriate the thing found to their own use, as guilty of theft, whether they knew to whom it belonged or not; and Plato greatly commends the law of Solon, "Take not what thou didst not put d... [ Continue Reading ]
_Convicted, by his own conscience, and by the judgment of the priest to whom he has confessed his sin. The Hebrew expresses the different sorts of sins specified above, which the Vulgate denotes by the word offence._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Wronged. Hebrew and Chaldean add, "in the day of his sin-offering;" and the Septuagint, "in which he has convicted." No unnecessary delay in making restitution can be allowed to the sincere penitent, who wishes to make his peace with God._... [ Continue Reading ]
_The. Hebrew, "thy estimation for a sin-offering." (Haydock) --- Wilful sins require a more noble victim than those of ignorance, which were expiated by the sacrifice of a goat. (Menochius)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Holocaust. The regulations respecting it, as they regard the priests, are here given, as chap. i., directions were given to those who represent the victims. --- Morning. All the parts of the victim were not laid on at the same time. The like was observed during the day also, when no other sacrifice... [ Continue Reading ]
_Others; such as were worn on common occasions, out of the tabernacle. --- And shall, &c. Hebrew has only, "unto a clean place," as the other versions and some Latin copies read. The meaning of the addition is, that all the bones, &c., must be perfectly reduced to dust, before they be carried out of... [ Continue Reading ]
_Fat, along with the whole burnt-offering. (Menochius)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_The perpetual fire. This fire came from heaven, ( infra chap. ix. 24,) and was always kept burning on the altar: as a figure of the heavenly fire of divine love, which ought to be always burning in the heart of a Christian. (Challoner) --- It must be fed by assiduous meditation on the Scripture and... [ Continue Reading ]
_Sacrifice of flour, monee, chap. ii. 1. --- And libations. These words are added, to shew that oil and wine accompanied this sacrifice._... [ Continue Reading ]
_He. Only the priests, who were actually officiating, could partake of it. (Calmet)_... [ Continue Reading ]
Lord. As long as this law shall be enforced. (Menochius) --- _Sanctified. Theodoret (q. 5,) seems to assert, that all such were obliged to serve the altar in some function or other. If any unclean person touched the victims wilfully, he was slain; if, by mistake, the blood sprinkled a garment, it wa... [ Continue Reading ]
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_Evening. And this shall continue as long as they are high priests, from the day of their consecration, (Josephus, [Antiquities?] iii. 20.; Cajetan,) a perpetual sacrifice. (Calmet)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Rightfully. According to the law, which decides that, if the first-born be deformed, the next shall succeed, chap. xxi. 18. Hebrew, "the priest, of his sons, who is anointed in his stead, shall offer it." No mention is made of its being hot, either here or in the Septuagint. (Haydock)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Sacrifice of flour, not of animals, Exodus xxix. 28._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Sin of individuals. The victims offered by the priest, or by the whole people, were to be burnt, chap. iv. 7._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Tabernacle. No part shall be given to those who are not of the sacerdotal race. (Calmet)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Place, in the court, that so it may be worn again. (Menochius)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Sodden, or boiled. Such vessels, of private people, as had been used to boil part of the victim, (1 Kings ii. 13,) were either to be abandoned to the service of the altar, or broken, &c. (Calmet) --- Earthen vessels might imbibe some part of the consecrated juice. (Menochius)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Fire. As they are the victims for the sins of the priest and of the people, chap. iv. 6, 18. (Menochius)_... [ Continue Reading ]