Ye [are] the children of the LORD your God: ye shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead. Ver. 1. _Ye are the children of the Lord._] Ye should therefore do nothing unworthy of such a Father. Antigonus being invited to a place where a notable harlot was to be pr... [ Continue Reading ]
For thou [art] an holy people unto the LORD thy God, and the LORD hath chosen thee to be a peculiar people unto himself, above all the nations that [are] upon the earth. Ver. 2. _For thou art._] _See Trapp on "_ Deu 7:6 _"_ And the Lord hath chosen thee.] Hence all thy holiness. The maids were fir... [ Continue Reading ]
Thou shalt not eat any abominable thing. Ver. 3. _Thou shalt not eat any abominable._] _See Trapp on "_ Lev 11:1 _"_ &c. This law taught them to abstain from communion with wicked men, in whom are found the malignities and evil properties of all other creatures. Acts 10:13 _; Acts 10:17_ _; Acts 10... [ Continue Reading ]
The hart, and the roebuck, and the fallow deer, and the wild goat, and the pygarg, and the wild ox, and the chamois. Ver. 5. _The hart and the roebuck._] These were dainties fit for a king. 1Ki 4:23 Rice and mutton is the cheer wherewith the great Turk entertaineth foreign ambassadors, and that so... [ Continue Reading ]
And every beast that parteth the hoof, and cleaveth the cleft into two claws, [and] cheweth the cud among the beasts, that ye shall eat. Ver. 6. _That parteth the hoof._] _See Trapp on "_ Lev 11:3 _"_... [ Continue Reading ]
Ye shall not eat [of] any thing that dieth of itself: thou shalt give it unto the stranger that [is] in thy gates, that he may eat it; or thou mayest sell it unto an alien: for thou [art] an holy people unto the LORD thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother's milk. Ver. 21. _Thou shalt no... [ Continue Reading ]
Thou shalt truly tithe all the increase of thy seed, that the field bringeth forth year by year. Ver. 22. _Thou shalt truly tithe._] He seems to mean that second tithe, wherewith they were to feast before the Lord, and not the tithe given to the Levites. Num 18:24... [ Continue Reading ]
And thou shalt eat before the LORD thy God, in the place which he shall choose to place his name there, the tithe of thy corn, of thy wine, and of thine oil, and the firstlings of thy herds and of thy flocks; that thou mayest learn to fear the LORD thy God always. Ver. 23. _That thou mayest learn,_... [ Continue Reading ]
And the Levite, (because he hath no part nor inheritance with thee,) and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, which [are] within thy gates, shall come, and shall eat and be satisfied; that the LORD thy God may bless thee in all the work of thine hand which thou doest. Ver. 29. _That the... [ Continue Reading ]