* The law of the meat-offering and the drink-offering The stranger
under the same law. (1-21) The sacrifice for the sin of ignorance.
(22-29) The punishment of presumption The sabbath-breaker stoned.
(30-36) The law for fringes on garment. (37-41)... [ Continue Reading ]
1-21 Full instructions are given about the meat-offerings and
drink-offerings. The beginning of this law is very encouraging, When
ye come into the land of your habitation which I give unto you. This
was a plain intimation that God would secure the promised land to
their seed. It was requisite, sinc... [ Continue Reading ]
22-29 Though ignorance will in a degree excuse, it will not justify
those who might have known their Lord's will, yet did it not. David
prayed to be cleansed from his secret faults, those sins which he
himself was not aware of. Sins committed ignorantly, shall be forgiven
through Christ the great Sa... [ Continue Reading ]
30-36 Those are to be reckoned presumptuous sinners, who sin
designedly against God's will and glory. Sins thus committed are
exceedingly sinful. He that thus breaks the commandment reproaches the
Lord. He also despises the word of the Lord. Presumptuous sinners
despise it, thinking themselves too... [ Continue Reading ]
37-41 The people are ordered by the Lord to make fringes on the
borders of their garments. The Jews were distinguished from their
neighbours in their dress, as well as in their diet, and thus taught
not to be conformed to the way of the heathen in other things. They
proclaimed themselves Jews where... [ Continue Reading ]