LEVITICUS CHAPTER 22 The priests in their uncleanness must abstain from the holy things, LEVITICUS 22:1. How they shall be cleansed, LEVITICUS 22:6. Who of the priest's house may eat of the holy things, LEVITICUS 22:10. The sacrifices must be without blemish, LEVITICUS 22:17. The age of the sacrific... [ Continue Reading ]
THAT THEY SEPARATE THEMSELVES, to wit, when any uncleanness is upon them, as it appears from LEVITICUS 22:3,4. From the holy things, i.e. from eating of those parts of the offerings which belong to them. Only of the tithes they might eat in that case. WHICH THEY HALLOW; either the children of Israel... [ Continue Reading ]
UNTO THE HOLY THINGS, to eat them or to touch them; for if the touch of one of the people having his uncleanness upon him defiled the thing he touched, much more was it so in the priest. FROM MY PRESENCE; either from the place of my presence and from my ordinances by excommunication: he shall be exc... [ Continue Reading ]
WHAT MAN SOEVER, i.e. or woman, of Aaron's seed; for they were under the same law.... [ Continue Reading ]
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i.e. His portion, the means of his subsistence. This may be added to signify why there was no greater nor longer a penalty put upon the priests than upon the people in the same case, LE 11 LE 15, because his necessity craved some mitigation; though otherwise the priests being more sacred persons, an... [ Continue Reading ]
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MINE ORDINANCE; either this ordinance here treated of concerning abstaining from holy things when they are unclean; or more generally, that great ordinance whereby I have made them the guardians of holy places and things, to keep them from all defilement by themselves or others. Heb. _my watch_, i.e... [ Continue Reading ]
NO STRANGER, i.e. of a strange family, who is not a priest, as LEVITICUS 22:12: compare MATTHEW 12:4. But there is an exception to this rule, LEVITICUS 22:11. A SOJOURNER; one that comes to his house and abides there for a season, and eats at his table. OF THE HOLY THINGS; of those parts of the offe... [ Continue Reading ]
Because they were wholly his, and as such they were circumcised, GE 17 EXO 12.... [ Continue Reading ]
UNTO A STRANGER, i.e. to one of another family, who is no priest. Yet the priest's wife, though of another family, might eat. The reason of which difference is, because the with passeth into the name, state, and privileges of her husband, from whom the family is denominated and esteemed.... [ Continue Reading ]
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THE FIFTH PART, over and above the principal, and besides the ram to be offered to God, LEVITICUS 5:15. SHALL GIVE IT UNTO THE PRIEST WITH THE HOLY THING; or, _and shall give unto the priest the holy thing_; i.e. the worth of it, which the priest was either to take to himself or offer to God, as the... [ Continue Reading ]
Either, 1. The people shall not profane them, by eating them. Or, 2. The priests shall not profane them, i.e. suffer the people to profane them, without censure and punishment. Both come to the same thing; the people shall not do it, nor the priests suffer it.... [ Continue Reading ]
i.e. _They_, i.e. the priests shall not (the negative particle being understood out of the foregoing clause, as PSALMS 1:5, PSALMS 9:18 _suffer them_, i.e. the people, to bear the iniquity of trespass, i.e. the punishment of their sin, which they might expect from God, and for the prevention whereof... [ Continue Reading ]
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OR OF THE STRANGERS; such as were proselytes. FOR ALL HIS VOWS. See on LEVITICUS 7:16.... [ Continue Reading ]
A MALE for a burnt-offering, which was always of that kind; but the females were accepted in peace-offerings, LEVITICUS 3:1, and sin-offerings, LEVITICUS 4:32, LEVITICUS 5:6.... [ Continue Reading ]
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To wit, none of the blemishes mentioned LEVITICUS 22:22,24; for some blemishes did not hinder the acceptance of a free will offering, but only of a vow, LEVITICUS 22:23.... [ Continue Reading ]
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THAT MAYEST THOU OFFER; either, 1. To the priest, who might, according to the rules given by God, either convert it to his own use, or sell it, and lay out the price of it upon the temple or sacrifices. But in this sense any of the other kinds, as blind, or broken, &c., might be offered, which yet... [ Continue Reading ]
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NEITHER FROM A STRANGER'S HAND, to wit, from proselytes, from whom less might seem to be expected, and in whom God might bear with some things which he would not bear with in his own people; yet even from those such should not be accepted, much less from the Israelites. THE BREAD, i.e. the sacrifice... [ Continue Reading ]
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FROM THE EIGHTH DAY. See on EXODUS 23:30, EXODUS 23:19.... [ Continue Reading ]
Because it savoured of cruelty. SEE POOLE Deuteronomy 22:6.... [ Continue Reading ]
i.e. What and when you please, so the rules be observed: or, _for your acceptance_, as LEVITICUS 1:3, i.e. in such manner that God may accept it, i.e. regularly, cheerfully, &c.... [ Continue Reading ]
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NEITHER SHALL YE PROFANE MY HOLY NAME; either by despising me and my command yourselves, or by giving others occasion to profane them. HALLOWED, or _sanctified_: either by you in keeping my holy commands, or upon you in executing my holy and righteous judgments, LEVITICUS 10:3 ISAIAH 26:15. I will m... [ Continue Reading ]
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