Leviticus 23:1
And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, Ver. 1. _And the Lord spake._] _See Trapp on "_ Lev 7:22 _"_... [ Continue Reading ]
And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, Ver. 1. _And the Lord spake._] _See Trapp on "_ Lev 7:22 _"_... [ Continue Reading ]
Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, [Concerning] the feasts of the LORD, which ye shall proclaim [to be] holy convocations, [even] these [are] my feasts. Ver. 2. _To be holy convocations._] Not bare rests, as Plato said, that the gods, pitying men's labour, appointed their festiva... [ Continue Reading ]
_Six days shall work be done: but the seventh day [is] the sabbath of rest, an holy convocation; ye shall do no work [therein]: it [is] the sabbath of the LORD in all your dwellings._ Ver. 3. _Ye shall do no work therein._] Save only works of piety, charity, and necessity. These are allowed by our... [ Continue Reading ]
These [are] the feasts of the LORD, [even] holy convocations, which ye shall proclaim in their seasons. Ver. 4. _In their seasons,_] _i.e., _ Once a year.... [ Continue Reading ]
In the fourteenth [day] of the first month at even [is] the LORD'S passover. Ver. 5. _In the fourteenth day._] _See Trapp on "_ Exo 12:18 _"_... [ Continue Reading ]
And on the fifteenth day of the same month [is] the feast of unleavened bread unto the LORD: seven days ye must eat unleavened bread. Ver. 6. _Eat unleavened bread._] To teach us to eat the Christian passover, not with the "old leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of since... [ Continue Reading ]
In the first day ye shall have an holy convocation: ye shall do no servile work therein. Ver. 7. _No servile work._] But that about victuals. Exo 12:26... [ Continue Reading ]
But ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD seven days: in the seventh day [is] an holy convocation: ye shall do no servile work [therein]. Ver. 8. _But ye shall offer an offering._] What these offerings must be, see Numbers 28:18; Numbers 28:24 .... [ Continue Reading ]
Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye be come into the land which I give unto you, and shall reap the harvest thereof, then ye shall bring a sheaf of the firstfruits of your harvest unto the priest: Ver. 10. _And shall reap the harvest._] Barley harvest; for that was first.... [ Continue Reading ]
And he shall wave the sheaf before the LORD, to be accepted for you: on the morrow after the sabbath the priest shall wave it. Ver. 11. _And he shall wave the sheaf._] This signified that they and theirs were accepted of God through Christ. _ On the morrow after the Sabbath._] Here the Lord's day w... [ Continue Reading ]
And ye shall offer that day when ye wave the sheaf an he lamb without blemish of the first year for a burnt offering unto the LORD. Ver. 12. _A he lamb._] Prefiguring Christ, by whom those first fruits were sanctified.... [ Continue Reading ]
And the meat offering thereof [shall be] two tenth deals of fine flour mingled with oil, an offering made by fire unto the LORD [for] a sweet savour: and the drink offering thereof [shall be] of wine, the fourth [part] of an hin. Ver. 13. _Two tenth deals._] This was double to the ordinary proporti... [ Continue Reading ]
And ye shall eat neither bread, nor parched corn, nor green ears, until the selfsame day that ye have brought an offering unto your God: [it shall be] a statute for ever throughout your generations in all your dwellings. Ver. 14. _And ye shall eat neither bread._] It was fit that God the giver shou... [ Continue Reading ]
And ye shall count unto you from the morrow after the sabbath, from the day that ye brought the sheaf of the wave offering; seven sabbaths shall be complete: Ver. 15. _Seven Sabbaths._] That is, seven weeks. The Sabbath is queen of all the days of the week; and therefore carries the name of the who... [ Continue Reading ]
Even unto the morrow after the seventh sabbath shall ye number fifty days; and ye shall offer a new meat offering unto the LORD. Ver. 16. _Shall ye number fifty days._] And then keep the feast of Pentecost or of weeks, so called because it was seven weeks after the passover.... [ Continue Reading ]
Ye shall bring out of your habitations two wave loaves of two tenth deals: they shall be of fine flour; they shall be baken with leaven; [they are] the firstfruits unto the LORD. Ver. 17. _Out of your habitations._] That is, Out of the new corn (growing of the same land which God gave them to inher... [ Continue Reading ]
And ye shall offer with the bread seven lambs without blemish of the first year, and one young bullock, and two rams: they shall be [for] a burnt offering unto the LORD, with their meat offering, and their drink offerings, [even] an offering made by fire, of sweet savour unto the LORD. Ver. 18. _Se... [ Continue Reading ]
And the priest shall wave them with the bread of the firstfruits [for] a wave offering before the LORD, with the two lambs: they shall be holy to the LORD for the priest. Ver. 20. _Wave them._] See on Exodus 29:24 . _ Holy to the Lord._] And wholly to the priest.... [ Continue Reading ]
And ye shall proclaim on the selfsame day, [that] it may be an holy convocation unto you: ye shall do no servile work [therein: it shall be] a statute for ever in all your dwellings throughout your generations. Ver. 21. _A holy convocation._] The feast day of Pentecost, kept in testimony of their t... [ Continue Reading ]
And when ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not make clean riddance of the corners of thy field when thou reapest, neither shalt thou gather any gleaning of thy harvest: thou shalt leave them unto the poor, and to the stranger: I [am] the LORD your God. Ver. 22. _And when ye reap._] See L... [ Continue Reading ]
Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, In the seventh month, in the first [day] of the month, shall ye have a sabbath, a memorial of blowing of trumpets, an holy convocation. Ver. 24. _Of blowing of trumpets._] This feast signified the spiritual joy and gladness of the saints that are redeemed... [ Continue Reading ]
Ye shall do no servile work [therein]: but ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD. Ver. 25. See on Leviticus 16:30, &c.... [ Continue Reading ]
And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, Ver. 26. See on Leviticus 16:30, &c.... [ Continue Reading ]
Also on the tenth [day] of this seventh month [there shall be] a day of atonement: it shall be an holy convocation unto you; and ye shall afflict your souls, and offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD. Ver. 27. _Also on the tenth day._] _See Trapp on "_ Lev 16:31 _"_ Thus they were kept in so... [ Continue Reading ]
Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, The fifteenth day of this seventh month [shall be] the feast of tabernacles [for] seven days unto the LORD. Ver. 34. _The feast of tabernacles._] It signified, the prophet Zechariah being interpreter, Lev 14:16-19 that the remembrance of our redemption by... [ Continue Reading ]
Ye shall dwell in booths seven days; all that are Israelites born shall dwell in booths: Ver. 42. _Ye shall dwell in booths._] The siege of Jerusalem by the Romans lasted six months. It began at the passover, and ended at this feast of tabernacles. _Ita festum illud fuit finis istius politiae._... [ Continue Reading ]
_That your generations may know that I made the children of Israel to dwell in booths, when I brought them out of the land of Egypt: I [am] the LORD your God._ Ver. 43. _That your generations may know._] For which purpose also they had at this feast the law read unto them. Neh 8:18 _Deuteronomy 31:... [ Continue Reading ]