LEVITICUS CHAPTER 21 Priests must not defile themselves, in mourning over the dead: cases excepted, LEVITICUS 21:1. Nor marry with a whore, profane, or divorced woman, LEVITICUS 21:7,8. His daughter, if a whore, to be burnt with fire, LEVITICUS 21:9. The high priest must in no case defile himself wi... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR HIS KIN THAT IS NEAR UNTO HIM: under this general expression his wife seems to be comprehended, though she be not expressed in the following instances, because from the mention of others more remote it was easy to gather that so near a relation was not excluded. And hence it is noted as a peculi... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR HIS SISTER, either by father or mother. NIGH UNTO HIM, i.e. by nearness, not of relation, (for that might seem a needless addition,) but of habitation, i.e. one not yet cut off from the family, as it follows. WHICH HATH HAD NO HUSBAND; for if she was married, she was now of another family, and u... [ Continue Reading ]
Or, seeing he is A CHIEF MAN, & c., or _ruler_, &c., for such not only the high priest, but others also of the inferior priests, were. And therefore though he might defile himself for the persons now named, yet he, above all others, must take heed so to do it that he do not profane himself by doing... [ Continue Reading ]
To wit, in funerals, as the heathens did: q. d. Though I allow them to defile themselves for some of the dead, yet in no case shall they use these superstitious and heathenish rites, which also the people are forbidden to do, LEVITICUS 19:27 DEUTERONOMY 14:1, but the priests in a more peculiar manne... [ Continue Reading ]
HOLY UNTO THEIR GOD; devoted to God's service, and always prepared and fit for it; and therefore shall keep themselves as far as they can from all defilement, which makes them unmeet for their Master's use. NOT PROFANE THE NAME OF THEIR GOD, which they especially bear; they shall not disparage the s... [ Continue Reading ]
OR PROFANE, or _defiled_, or _defloured_, though it were done secretly, or by accident, or by force; because the priest must take care that all the members of his family be free not only from gross wickedness, but from all suspicion of evil, and occasions of reproach or contempt, because this would... [ Continue Reading ]
Thou, O Moses, and whosoever shall succeed in thy place, to whom it belongs to see those and other of my laws observed, shall take care that the priest be holy, and do not defile himself by any of these forbidden marriages, though he would do it. HE SHALL BE HOLY UNTO THEE; either 1. In thy esteem,... [ Continue Reading ]
And by analogy his son also, and his wife, because the reason of the law here added concerns all. And nothing is more common than to name one kind for the rest of the same nature, as also is done LE 18. SHE PROFANETH HER FATHER, i.e. exposeth his person and office, and consequently religion, one of... [ Continue Reading ]
UPON WHOSE HEAD THE ANOINTING OIL WAS POURED, LEVITICUS 8:12; which was only sprinkled upon inferior priests, blood also being mixed with it, LEVITICUS 8:30. THE GARMENTS, to wit, those holy garments which were peculiar to him, as well as those common to others. SHALL NOT UNCOVER HIS HEAD; this bein... [ Continue Reading ]
NEITHER SHALL HE GO, to wit, into the chamber or house where they lie. This and divers other rites here prescribed were from hence translated by the heathens into their use, whose priests were put under the same obligations. NOR DEFILE HIMSELF FOR HIS FATHER; because upon his father's death he was a... [ Continue Reading ]
OUT OF THE SANCTUARY, to wit, to attend the funerals of any person; for upon other occasions he might and did commonly go out. NOR PROFANE THE SANCTUARY; either by making the service thereof give place to the discharge of his passions, or the performance of a civility, or by entering into the sanctu... [ Continue Reading ]
Or, a virgin, partly for the decency of the type, because as he was a type of Christ, so his wife was a type of the church, which is compared to a virgin, 2 CORINTHIANS 11:2 REVELATION 14:4; and partly for greater caution and assurance that his wife was not a defiled or defloured person. This and th... [ Continue Reading ]
A WIDOW; except she were the widow of his predecessor, which some gather from EZEKIEL 44:22. But that place speaks only of the common priest, not of the high priest. OF HIS OWN PEOPLE, i.e. either, 1. _Of his own tribe_, which is confuted by the examples of holy men; see 2 CHRONICLES 22:11; or, 2.... [ Continue Reading ]
NEITHER SHALL HE PROFANE HIS SEED by mixing it with forbidden kinds, whereby the children would be disparaged, and rendered unfit for their priestly function. DO SANCTIFY HIM, i.e. have separated him from all other sorts of men for my especial and immediate service, and therefore will not have that... [ Continue Reading ]
No text from Poole on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
WHOSOEVER HE BE OF THY SEED, whether the high priest or the inferior ones. IN THEIR GENERATIONS; in all successive ages, as long as your priesthood and policy endures. ANY BLEMISH, i.e. any defect or excess of parts, any notorious deformity, or imperfection in his body. The reason hereof is partly t... [ Continue Reading ]
HE SHALL NOT APPROACH UNTO GOD, or to serve him in his sanctuary. A FLAT NOSE: most restrain this word to the nose and to some great deformity relating to it, either the want of it wholly or in part, or the shortness, flatness, or crookedness of it. But according to others, it signifies more general... [ Continue Reading ]
No text from Poole on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
No text from Poole on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
NO MAN THAT HATH A BLEMISH; any notorious blemish whereby he is disfigured, though not here mentioned.... [ Continue Reading ]
Which a priest having any uncleanness upon him might not do; whereby God would show the great difference between natural infirmities sent upon a man by God, and moral defilements which a man brought upon himself. What was HOLY, and what MOST HOLY, was declared before. See LEVITICUS 2:3, LEVITICUS 6:... [ Continue Reading ]
IN UNTO THE VEIL i.e. to the second veil, which was between the holy and the most holy place, EXODUS 26:13,36, to burn incense, to order the shew-bread, and to dress the lamps, which were nigh unto that veil, though without. NOR COME NIGH UNTO THE ALTAR, i.e. the altar of burnt-offering, which was w... [ Continue Reading ]
No text from Poole on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]