Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye be come into the land of your habitations, which I give unto you, Ver. 2. _When ye be come into the land._] God, who in the midst of judgment remembereth mercy, and suffereth not his whole wrath to arise, seals up his love again to these... [ Continue Reading ]
Then shall he that offereth his offering unto the LORD bring a meat offering of a tenth deal of flour mingled with the fourth [part] of an hin of oil. Ver. 4. _Bring a meat offering._] As an appendix to the other sacrifices. These following laws were given likely during their so long station at Kad... [ Continue Reading ]
And the fourth [part] of an hin of wine for a drink offering shalt thou prepare with the burnt offering or sacrifice, for one lamb. Ver. 5. _For a drink offering._] These drink offerings of wine signified that the saints must be most ready and cheerful to offer themselves up to God in martyrdom, as... [ Continue Reading ]
Ye shall offer up a cake of the first of your dough [for] an heave offering: as [ye do] the heave offering of the threshingfloor, so shall ye heave it. Ver. 20. _Ye shall offer up a cake._] As a homage penny, as acknowledging God the chief Lord of all; and as craving his leave to partake of his cre... [ Continue Reading ]
And if ye have erred, and not observed all these commandments, which the LORD hath spoken unto Moses, Ver. 22. _And if ye hath erred and not observed._] Not serving of God, not sacrificing, is a sin. Malachi 3:8 Ecc 9:2 Not robbing only, but the not relieving of the poor, was the rich man's ruin. L... [ Continue Reading ]
Then it shall be, if [ought] be committed by ignorance without the knowledge of the congregation, that all the congregation shall offer one young bullock for a burnt offering, for a sweet savour unto the LORD, with his meat offering, and his drink offering, according to the manner, and one kid of th... [ Continue Reading ]
But the soul that doeth [ought] presumptuously, [whether he be] born in the land, or a stranger, the same reproacheth the LORD; and that soul shall be cut off from among his people. Ver. 30. _But the soul that doeth aught presumptuously._] When the heart at any time deliberates, saith a learned div... [ Continue Reading ]
_Because he hath despised the word of the LORD, and hath broken his commandment, that soul shall utterly be cut off; his iniquity [shall be] upon him._ Ver. 31. _That gathered sticks upon the Sabbath day._] This he did with a high hand, as Numbers 15:30, in contempt of God and his law. The baser so... [ Continue Reading ]
Speak unto the children of Israel, and bid them that they make them fringes in the borders of their garments throughout their generations, and that they put upon the fringe of the borders a ribband of blue: Ver. 38. _That they may make them fringes._] _See Trapp on "_ Mat 23:5 _"_ A ribband of blu... [ Continue Reading ]
That ye may remember, and do all my commandments, and be holy unto your God. Ver. 40. _That ye may remember._] Our memories are like strainers, nets, grates, that let the pure water run away, but retain mud, trash, &c. It is with us as with those in Psalms 106:13, "they soon forgat his works," &c.,... [ Continue Reading ]