Command the children of Israel, that they put out of the camp every leper, and every one that hath an issue, and whosoever is defiled by the dead: Ver. 2. _Put out of the camp._] To show, that sin unrepented of, throws us out of the communion of faith and saints; shuts us out of the congregation of... [ Continue Reading ]
_Both male and female shall ye put out, without the camp shall ye put them; that they defile not their camps, in the midst whereof I dwell._ Ver. 3. _Without the camp shall ye put them._] Evildoers are to be suspended, excommunicated, 1Co 5:13 which text showeth plainly the truth of this ceremony.... [ Continue Reading ]
Speak unto the children of Israel, When a man or woman shall commit any sin that men commit, to do a trespass against the LORD, and that person be guilty; Ver. 6. _Any sin that men commit._] For what man is he that liveth and sinneth not? I am a man a sinner, _a_ saith Peter, Luk 5:8 not more a man... [ Continue Reading ]
Then they shall confess their sin which they have done: and he shall recompense his trespass with the principal thereof, and add unto it the fifth [part] thereof, and give [it] unto [him] against whom he hath trespassed. Ver. 7. _Then they shall confess their sin._] So they were bound to do, all th... [ Continue Reading ]
But if the man have no kinsman to recompense the trespass unto, let the trespass be recompensed unto the LORD, [even] to the priest; beside the ram of the atonement, whereby an atonement shall be made for him. Ver. 8. _Unto the Lord, even to the priest._] The priest is the Lord's receiver. _a_ _So... [ Continue Reading ]
_And every offering of all the holy things of the children of Israel, which they bring unto the priest, shall be his._ Ver. 9. _And every offering._] So liberally doth the Lord provide for his priests. _See Trapp on "_ Lev 27:30 _"_ And is not the right of livelihood as equal and due to the ministe... [ Continue Reading ]
Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, If any man's wife go aside, and commit a trespass against him, Ver. 12. If any man's wife go aside.] _Ad alterum, vel ad alterius torum; unde dicitur adulterium._ If, as a naughty woman, she want one, when she hath her own. But how naughty are t... [ Continue Reading ]
And a man lie with her carnally, and it be hid from the eyes of her husband, and be kept close, and she be defiled, and [there be] no witness against her, neither she be taken [with the manner]; Ver. 13. _And it be hid from the eyes_] As Proverbs 30:20. Such a privy whore was Livia, the wife of Aug... [ Continue Reading ]
And the spirit of jealousy come upon him, and he be jealous of his wife, and she be defiled: or if the spirit of jealousy come upon him, and he be jealous of his wife, and she be not defiled: Ver. 14. _And the spirit of jealousy come upon him._] In the baths at Upper Baden in Helvetia, _cernunt vir... [ Continue Reading ]
_Then shall the man bring his wife unto the priest, and he shall bring her offering for her, the tenth [part] of an ephah of barley meal; he shall pour no oil upon it, nor put frankincense thereon; for it [is] an offering of jealousy, an offering of memorial, bringing iniquity to remembrance._ Ver.... [ Continue Reading ]
And the priest shall bring her near, and set her before the LORD: Ver. 16. _Set her before the Lord._] Whose the judgment was; that, if guilty, she might be scared from submitting herself to this trial; since God knows all our thefts.... [ Continue Reading ]
And the priest shall take holy water in an earthen vessel; and of the dust that is in the floor of the tabernacle the priest shall take, and put [it] into the water: Ver. 17. _Holy water,_] _i.e., _ Water taken out of the holy laver: no warrant for Popish lustral water, and sprinkling of sepulchres... [ Continue Reading ]
And the priest shall set the woman before the LORD, and uncover the woman's head, and put the offering of memorial in her hands, which [is] the jealousy offering: and the priest shall have in his hand the bitter water that causeth the curse: Ver. 18. Uncover the woman's head.] Because she stood now... [ Continue Reading ]
And the priest shall charge her by an oath, and say unto the woman, If no man have lain with thee, and if thou hast not gone aside to uncleanness [with another] instead of thy husband, be thou free from this bitter water that causeth the curse: Ver. 19. _Causeth the curse._] The divine justice caus... [ Continue Reading ]
Then the priest shall charge the woman with an oath of cursing, and the priest shall say unto the woman, The LORD make thee a curse and an oath among thy people, when the LORD doth make thy thigh to rot, and thy belly to swell; Ver. 21. _Thy thigh to rot, and thy belly to swell._] God takes notice... [ Continue Reading ]
And this water that causeth the curse shall go into thy bowels, to make [thy] belly to swell, and [thy] thigh to rot: And the woman shall say, Amen, amen. Ver. 22. _Amen, amen._] Twice; to show the fervency of her zeal, the innocency of her cause, the uprightness of her conscience, and the purity o... [ Continue Reading ]
And the priest shall write these curses in a book, and he shall blot [them] out with the bitter water: Ver. 23. _Shall write these curses in a book._] To show, that the word written should cause the water thus to work, according to the cleanness or uncleanness of the party. See 2 Corinthians 2:16.... [ Continue Reading ]
And when he hath made her to drink the water, then it shall come to pass, [that], if she be defiled, and have done trespass against her husband, that the water that causeth the curse shall enter into her, [and become] bitter, and her belly shall swell, and her thigh shall rot: and the woman shall be... [ Continue Reading ]