LEVITICUS CHAPTER 19 Israelites must be holy, LEVITICUS 19:1,2; must honour their parents, and keep sabbaths, LEVITICUS 19:3; shun idolatry, LEVITICUS 19:4; duly to stay and eat their peace-offerings, LEVITICUS 19:5; in harvest-time leave gleanings for the poor and stranger, LEVITICUS 19:9,10; not s... [ Continue Reading ]
YE SHALL BE HOLY, separated from all the forementioned defilements, and entirely consecrated to God, and obedient to all his laws and statutes. I THE LORD YOUR GOD AM HOLY, both in my essence, and in all my laws, which are holy and just and good, and in all my actions; whereas the gods of the heathe... [ Continue Reading ]
The _mother_ is put first, partly because the practice of this duty begins there, mothers, by perpetual converse, being more and sooner known to their children than their fathers; and partly because this duty is most commonly neglected to the mother, upon whom children have not so much dependence as... [ Continue Reading ]
Turn not your hearts and faces from me, whom alone you pretend to respect, unto them. He intimates, that their turning to idols is a turning from God, and that they could not serve both God and idols. UNTO IDOLS: the word signifies such as are _no gods_, or _nothings_, as they are called, 1 CORINTHI... [ Continue Reading ]
Or, _according to your own good pleasure_, what you think fit; for though this in the general was required, yet it was left to their choice to determine the particulars. LEVITICUS 7:16. Or rather, _to your acceptation_, i.e. in such manner as it may be accepted by God on your behalf, which is explai... [ Continue Reading ]
AND ON THE MORROW; by which clause it appears that he speaks here only of that sort of peace-offerings which were offered either by vow, or freely for the obtaining of some mercy desired; for the other sort, which was by way of gratitude for mercies received, were to be eaten the same day, LEVITICUS... [ Continue Reading ]
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HIS INIQUITY, i.e. the punishment of his iniquity; instead of acceptation he shall receive punishment.... [ Continue Reading ]
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Who gave you all these things with a reservation of my authority over you, and right in them, and with a charge of giving part of them to the poor.... [ Continue Reading ]
Or, _one against another_, to the defrauding of him of any of his goods, to which kind of lying the words foregoing and following seem here to restrain it, though it be true that all sorts of lying are unlawful.... [ Continue Reading ]
YE SHALL NOT SWEAR BY MY NAME FALSELY: this is here added, to show how one sin draws on another, and that when men will lie for their own advantage, they will easily be induced to perjury. NEITHER SHALT THOU PROFANE THE NAME OF THY GOD, by any unholy use of it. So it is an additional precept, thou s... [ Continue Reading ]
THE WAGES, Heb. _the work_, put for _the wages_, as DEUTERONOMY 24:15 JOB 7:2 JEREMIAH 22:13. Shall not abide with thee all night, because his urgent necessities require it for present subsistence.... [ Continue Reading ]
NOR PUT A STUMBLING-BLOCK BEFORE THE BLIND, to make them fall. Under these two particulars are manifestly and especially forbidden all injuries done to such as are unable to right or defend themselves; of whom God here takes the more care, because they are not able to secure themselves; who both dis... [ Continue Reading ]
THOU SHALT NOT RESPECT THE PERSON OF THE POOR, so as through pity to him to give an unrighteous sentence. Compare DEUTERONOMY 1:17, DEUTERONOMY 10:17 PROVERBS 24:23.... [ Continue Reading ]
AS A TALE-BEARER, who makes it his business to go up and down from one to another, and divulge evil and false reports concerning others, which, though many times it proceeds only from levity and talkativeness, yet apparently tends to the great injury of our neighbour. See PROVERBS 11:13 JEREMIAH 6:2... [ Continue Reading ]
To prevent murder, last spoken of, he forbids hatred, which is the common cause, and a degree of murder, 1 JOHN 3:15. THY BROTHER; the same with _neighbour_, as it follows, i.e. every man, MATTHEW 5:44; for it is manifest that God's law commanded them to love strangers no less than Israelites. If th... [ Continue Reading ]
NOR BEAR ANY GRUDGE, Heb. _nor keep_, either, 1. The injury here supposed in thy memory: so it is opposed to those who say they will forgive, but not forget an injury. Or, 2. Anger or hatred in thy heart: so this verb is used JEREMIAH 3:12 NAHUM 1:2. _Thy neighbour_; by which he understands not th... [ Continue Reading ]
YE SHALL KEEP MY STATUTES; either, 1. My laws. So this is fitly premised, because otherwise some of the following commands might seem trifling, and obedience to them unnecessary. Or, 2. My ordinances, to wit, of nature; or the order which I have appointed in creatures, as the word is used JOB 26:10... [ Continue Reading ]
BETROTHED TO AN HUSBAND; or, _reproached or despised_, and therefore forsaken, _of her husband_. For as his continuance with her in his and her master's family and service is mentioned as an evidence that he loved her, EXODUS 21:5,6 so on the contrary, his forsaking of her was a reproach to her, and... [ Continue Reading ]
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AS UNCIRCUMCISED, i.e. as unclean, not to be eaten, but cast away, and counted abominable, as the foreskins are. THREE YEARS. This precept was serviceable, 1. To the trees themselves, which grew the better and faster, being early stript of those fruits, which otherwise would have derived to themsel... [ Continue Reading ]
Consecrated to the Lord, as the first-fruits and tithes were, and therefore given to the priests and Levites, NUMBERS 18:12,13 DEU 18:4; yet so that part of them were communicated to the poor widows, and fatherless, and strangers. See DEUTERONOMY 14:28,29. TO PRAISE THE LORD WITHAL; to bless the Lor... [ Continue Reading ]
THAT IT MAY YIELD UNTO YOU THE INCREASE THEREOF; that God may be pleased to give his blessing, which alone can make them fruitful.... [ Continue Reading ]
WITH THE BLOOD, i. e. any flesh out of which the blood is not first poured. See 1 SAMUEL 14:32. The Jews write, that the Egyptians and other nations, when they offered sacrifices to the devils, did eat part of the sacrifices, beside the blood which was kept in basons for that end, which also they be... [ Continue Reading ]
THE CORNERS OF YOUR HEADS; i.e. your temples: Ye shall not cut off the hair of your heads round about your temples. This the Gentiles did, either for the worship of the devils or idols, to whom young men used to consecrate their hair, being cut off from their heads, as Homer, Plutarch, and many othe... [ Continue Reading ]
ANY CUTTINGS IN YOUR FLESH, which the Gentiles commonly did both in the worship of their idols, and in their solemn mournings, JEREMIAH 16:6. FOR THE DEAD; Heb. _for a soul_, i.e. either, 1. Improperly, for a dead body; as that word is sometimes used, as LEVITICUS 19:28, LEVITICUS 21:1 NUMBERS 6:6:... [ Continue Reading ]
This the Gentiles frequently did for the honour of some of their idols, to whom divers women were consecrated, and publicly prostituted.... [ Continue Reading ]
Not presuming to approach it without reverence, or with any kind of uncleanness upon you.... [ Continue Reading ]
THEM THAT HAVE FAMILIAR SPIRITS; that have entered into covenant with the devil, by whose help they foretell many things to come, and acquaint men with secret things. See LEVITICUS 20:27 DEUTERONOMY 18:11 1 SAMUEL 28:3,7,9 2 KINGS 21:6. WIZARDS; another name expressing the same thing for substance,... [ Continue Reading ]
THOU SHALT RISE UP, to do them reverence when they pass by, for which end they were obliged, as the Jews say, presently to sit down again when they were past, that it might be manifest they arose out of respect to them. FEAR THY GOD; a reason of the former precept, both because old men in some respe... [ Continue Reading ]
Either with opprobrious expressions, or grievous exactions.... [ Continue Reading ]
AS ONE BORN AMONG YOU; either, 1. As to the matters of common right, as it here follows: so it reacheth to all strangers. Or, 2. As to church privileges: so it concerns only those who were proselytes of righteousness. FOR YE WERE STRANGERS; and therefore are sensible of the fears, distresses, and... [ Continue Reading ]
IN METEYARD; in the measuring of lands, or any dry and continued things, as cloth, ribband, &c. IN MEASURE; in the measuring of liquid or such dry things as are not continued, only contiguous, as of corn or wine, &c. Or, the former may note greater, the latter, less measures.... [ Continue Reading ]
A JUST EPHAH, AND A JUST HIN; these two measures are named as most common, the former for dry, the latter for moist things; but under them he manifestly comprehends all other measures.... [ Continue Reading ]
THEREFORE; because my blessings and deliverances are not indulgences to sin, but greater obligations to all duties to God and men. So that if religion and righteousness were utterly lost in the world, they ought in all reason to be found among you as my peculiar people and freed men.... [ Continue Reading ]