Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Leviticus 22:9
Lest they bear sin — Incur guilt and punishment. For it — For the neglect or violation of it.
Lest they bear sin — Incur guilt and punishment. For it — For the neglect or violation of it.
CHAPTER 22 _ 1. Care to be exercised in holy things (Leviticus 22:1)_ 2. Care in the enforcement of the law of offerings (Leviticus 22:17) Uncleanness such as mentioned in the first part of the chap...
RULES FOR PRIESTS-' FAMILIES, ETC. A priest's slave is a member of his family, and may eat of the dues; a hired servant or a guest is not. Nor is a married daughter, unless she returns, a childless wi...
KEEP MINE ORDINANCE. observe My observance. Figure of speech _Polyptoton,_ App-6, for emphasis. Compare Leviticus 18:30. ORDINANCE. charge. SIN. penalty. Put by Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Cause...
PRIESTLY SEPARATION FROM CEREMONIAL UNCLEANNESS 22:1-10 TEXT 22:1-10 1 And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying, 2 Speak unto Aaron and to his sons, that they separate themselves from the holy things...
_AND WHEN THE SUN IS DOWN, HE SHALL BE CLEAN, AND SHALL AFTERWARD EAT OF THE HOLY THINGS; BECAUSE IT IS HIS FOOD._ No JFB commentary on these verses....
LAWS RELATING TO THE PRIESTHOOD AND SACRIFICE (CONTINUED) 1-6. The holy things may not be eaten by priests otherwise qualified, but ceremonially unclean, nor by any persons outside the priestly famil...
LEVITICUS *WORSHIP THE *LORD IN THE BEAUTY OF *HOLINESS LEVITICUS _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ This commentary HAS BEEN through Advanced Checking. Words in boxes are from the Bible, except for the words i...
וְ שָׁמְר֣וּ אֶת ־מִשְׁמַרְתִּ֗י וְ לֹֽא ־יִש
THE LAW OF PRIESTLY HOLINESS Leviticus 21:1; Leviticus 22:1 THE conception of Israel as a kingdom of priests, a holy nation, was concretely represented in a threefold division of the people, -the con...
Instructions already given are now repeated with greater detail and wider application. Not only must the priest himself be free from blemish and defilement, he must see to it that all that which he of...
_In the sanctuary, is not found in Hebrew which is difficult to explain. "They shall observe my precepts, ( or "watches," entering upon the ministry at 17; Josephus; Menochius) and not bear sin for it...
Though some pollutions here spoken of, were in their nature greater than others; yet it is well to observe, that all equally disqualified from approaching the sanctuary. And what did these things teac...
We have seen the various forms of the work of Christ, of His offering of Himself to God, whether in all the perfectness of His life, or in His death as the means of our acceptance. We have seen furthe...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 21 AND 22. Chapter 21 specially presents what becomes the priests as set apart for Jehovah: this more intimate nearness supposed a conduct corresponding with...
THEY SHALL THEREFORE KEEP MINE ORDINANCE,.... The observance of my word, as the Targums of Onkelos and Jonathan, of his word of command; either respecting the not eating of such creatures that died of...
They shall therefore keep mine ordinance, lest they bear sin for it, and die therefore, if they profane it: I the LORD do sanctify them. Ver. 9. _And die therefore._] It is no dallying with God. Eith...
_Lest they bear sin_ Incur guilt and punishment. _For it_ For the neglect or violation of it....
1 The Priests in their vncleannesse must abstaine from the holy things. 6 How they shall bee cleansed. 10 Who of the Priests house may eate of the holy things. 17 The sacrifices must be without ble...
They shall therefore keep Mine ordinance, lest they bear sin for it and die there for, if they profane it. I, the Lord, do sanctify them. Death was the general penalty of a priest's neglect to follow...
WARNING AGAINST PROFANATION OF HALLOWED THINGS...
NO PROFANING OF SEPARATED THINGS (VV. 1-16) Aaron and his sons were always in close proximity to those things that had been separated for sacred purposes. They were therefore to be careful as to thei...
MINE ORDINANCE; either this ordinance here treated of concerning abstaining from holy things when they are unclean; or more generally, that great ordinance whereby I have made them the guardians of ho...
Leviticus 22:9 keep H8104 (H8804) ordinance H4931 bear H5375 (H8799) sin H2399 die H4191 (H8804) profane...
FOR PRIESTS, DISCERNMENT OF UNCLEANNESS IS VITAL. THEY MUST NOT APPROACH YAHWEH WHILE UNCLEAN LEST THEY DIE (LEVITICUS 22:2). Leviticus 22:2 “Speak to Aaron and to his sons, that they separate thems...
CONTENTS: Separation of the priests; perfection of the sacrifices. CHARACTERS: God, Moses, Aaron and sons. CONCLUSION: Those contract great guilt who profane sacred things, doing in their own unclea...
Leviticus 22:4. _Unclean._ The injunctions in this and the following verses, though not literally binding on christians, yet the holy law from whence they emanate is not to be disregarded. Every infir...
LEVITICUS—NOTE ON LEVITICUS 22:4 For the background of these rules, see Leviticus 11:1; Leviticus 13:1;...
Priestly Privileges Forfeited by Uncleanness SUGGESTIVE READINGS Leviticus 22:1.—Profane not My holy name in those things which they hallow unto Me. Holy things must not be touched with unclean hands...
EXPOSITION This chapter, which is a continuation of Leviticus 21:1, (1) commands that the ceremonially defiled priest shall not officiate or partake of the sacrificial offerings; (2) declares who m...
Now in the twenty-second chapter he deals with the priests and the things that they could eat. You see the things that were brought in sacrifice; a portion of them became meat for the priest. So the q...
Exodus 28:43; Leviticus 10:1; Leviticus 10:2; Leviticus 16:2; Num