Deuteronomy 12:2
All the places — Temples, chapels, altars, groves, as appears from other scriptures. Green — tree — As the Gentiles consecrated divers trees to their false gods, so they worshipped these under them.... [ Continue Reading ]
All the places — Temples, chapels, altars, groves, as appears from other scriptures. Green — tree — As the Gentiles consecrated divers trees to their false gods, so they worshipped these under them.... [ Continue Reading ]
Pillars — Upon which their images were set. Names — That is, all the memorials of them, and the very names given to the places from the idols.... [ Continue Reading ]
Not do so — That is, not worship him in several places, mountains, and groves.... [ Continue Reading ]
To put his name there — That is, to set up his worship there, and which he shall call by his name, as his house, or his dwelling — place; namely, where the ark should be, the tabernacle, or temple: which was first Shiloh, and then Jerusalem. There is not one precept in all the law of Moses, so large... [ Continue Reading ]
Thither bring your burnt — offerings — Which were wisely appropriated to that one place, for the security of the true religion, and for the prevention of idolatry and superstition, which might otherwise more easily have crept in: and to signify that their sacrifices were not accepted for their own w... [ Continue Reading ]
There — Not in the most holy place, wherein only the priests might eat, but in places allowed to the people for this, end in the holy city. Ye shall eat — Your part of the things mentioned, Deuteronomy 12:6. Before the Lord — In the place of God's presence, where God's sanctuary shall be.... [ Continue Reading ]
Here — Where the inconveniency of the place, and the uncertainty of our abode, would not permit exact order in sacrifices and feasts and ceremonies, which therefore God was then pleased to dispense with; but, saith he, he will not do so there. Right in his own eyes — Not that universal liberty was g... [ Continue Reading ]
His name — His majesty and glory, his worship and service, his, special and gracious presence. Your choice vows — Heb. the choice of your vows, that is, your select or chosen vows; so called, because things offered for vows, were to be perfect, whereas defective creatures were accepted in free — wil... [ Continue Reading ]
Your daughters — Hence it appears, that though the males only were obliged to appear before God in their solemn feasts, yet the women also were permitted to come.... [ Continue Reading ]
Thy burnt — offerings — Nor the other things mentioned above, this one and most eminent kind being put for all the rest.... [ Continue Reading ]
Within thy gates — That is, in your private habitations, here opposed to the place of God's worship.... [ Continue Reading ]
Enlarge thy border — Which will make it impossible to bring all the cattle thou usest to the tabernacle.... [ Continue Reading ]
If the place be too far — Being obliged to carry their sacrifices to the place of worship, they might think themselves obliged to carry their other cattle thither to be killed. They are therefore released from all such obligations, and left at liberty to kill them at home, whether they lived nearer... [ Continue Reading ]
As the roe — buck — As common or unhallowed food, tho' they be of the same kind with the sacrifices which are offered to God. The unclean — Because there was, no holiness in such meat for which the unclean might be excluded from it.... [ Continue Reading ]
The flesh — Excepting what shall be burned to God's, honour, and given to the priest according to his appointment.... [ Continue Reading ]
By following them — By following the example they left, when their persons are destroyed.... [ Continue Reading ]