Leviticus 17:3
That killeth — Not for common use, for such beasts might be killed by any person or in any place but for sacrifice. In the camp, or out of the camp — That is, anywhere.... [ Continue Reading ]
That killeth — Not for common use, for such beasts might be killed by any person or in any place but for sacrifice. In the camp, or out of the camp — That is, anywhere.... [ Continue Reading ]
The tabernacle — This was appointed in opposition to the Heathens, who sacrificed in all places; to cut off occasions of idolatry; to prevent the people's usurpation of the priest's office, and to signify that God would accept of no sacrifices but through Christ and in the Church; (of both which the... [ Continue Reading ]
They offer — The Israelites, before the building of the tabernacle, did so, from which they are now restrained. Peace — offerings — He nameth not these exclusively from others, as appears from the reason of the law, and from Leviticus 17:8, but because in these the temptation was more common in rega... [ Continue Reading ]
Upon the altar — This verse contains a reason of the foregoing law, because of God's propriety in the blood and fat, wherewith also God was well pleased, and the people reconciled. And these two parts only are mentioned, as the most eminent, and peculiar, though other parts also were reserved for Go... [ Continue Reading ]
Unto devils — So they did, not directly or intentionally, but by construction and consequence, because the devil is the author of idolatry, and is eminently served, and honoured by it. And as the Egyptians were notorious for their idolatry, so the Israelites were infected with their leaven, Joshua 2... [ Continue Reading ]
I will set my face — I will be an enemy to him, and execute vengeance upon him immediately; because such persons probably would do this in private, so that the magistrate could not know nor punish it. Write that man undone, for ever undone, against whom God sets his face.... [ Continue Reading ]
Is in the blood — Depends upon the blood, is preserved and nourished by it. The blood maketh atonement — Typically, and in respect of the blood of Christ which it represented, by which the atonement is really made. So the reason is double; because this was eating up the ransom of their own lives, wh... [ Continue Reading ]
That eateth — Through ignorance or inadvertency; for if it was done knowingly, it was more severely punished. A stranger — Who is a proselyte to the Jewish religion: other strangers were allowed to eat such things, Deuteronomy 14:21, out of which the blood was either not drawn at all, or not regular... [ Continue Reading ]
His iniquity — The punishment of it, and therefore must offer a sacrifice for it.... [ Continue Reading ]