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 ]