Leviticus 23:2
Ye shall proclaim — Cause to be proclaimed, by the priests. Holy convocations — Days for your assembling together to my worship in a special manner.... [ Continue Reading ]
Ye shall proclaim — Cause to be proclaimed, by the priests. Holy convocations — Days for your assembling together to my worship in a special manner.... [ Continue Reading ]
Ye shall do no work therein — So it runs in the general for the sabbath day, and for the day of expiation, Leviticus 23:28, excluding all works about earthly employments whether of profit or of pleasure; but upon other feast days he forbids only servile works, as Leviticus 23:7, Leviticus 23:21, Lev... [ Continue Reading ]
These are the feasts of the Lord — Or rather, the solemnities: (for the day of atonement was a fast:) and so the word is used, Isaiah 33:20, where Zion is called the city of our solemnities.... [ Continue Reading ]
An omer — They did not offer this corn in the ear, or by a sheaf or handful, but, as Josephus, 3. 10 affirms, and may be gathered from Leviticus 2:14, purged from the chaff, and dryed, and beaten out.... [ Continue Reading ]
He shall wave the sheaf before the Lord — In the name of the whole congregation, which as it were sanctified to them the whole harvest, and gave them a comfortable use of all the rest. For then we may eat our bread with joy, when God hath accepted our works. And thus should we always begin with God;... [ Continue Reading ]
Two tenth deals — Or, parts, of an ephah, that is, two omers, whereas in other sacrifices of lambs there was but one tenth deal prescribed. The reason of which disproportion may be this, that one of the tenth deals was a necessary attendant upon the lamb, and the other was peculiar to this feast, an... [ Continue Reading ]
Bread — Made of new wheat. Nor green ears — Which were usual, not only for offerings to God, but also for man's food.... [ Continue Reading ]
From the morrow — From the sixteenth day of the month, and the second day of the feast of unleavened bread inclusively.... [ Continue Reading ]
A new meal — offering — Of new corn made into loaves.... [ Continue Reading ]
One bullock and two rams — In Numbers 28:11, Numbers 28:19, it is two young bullocks and one ram. Either therefore it was left to their liberty to chuse which they would offer, or one of the bullocks there, and one of the rams here, were the peculiar sacrifices of the feast day, and the other were a... [ Continue Reading ]
One kid — In Leviticus 4:14, the sin — offering for the sin of the people is a bullock, but here a kid; &c. the reason of the difference may be this, because that was for some particular sin of the people, but this only in general for all their sins.... [ Continue Reading ]
Wave them — Some part of them in the name of the whole; and so for the two lambs, otherwise they had been too big and too heavy, to be waved. For the priests — Who had to themselves not only the breast and shoulder as in others, which belonged to the priest, but also the rest which belonged to the o... [ Continue Reading ]
An holy convocation — A sabbath or day of rest, called pentecost; which was instituted, partly in remembrance of the consummation of their deliverance out of Egypt by bringing them thence to the mount of God, or Sinai, as God had promised, and of that admirable blessing of giving the law to them on... [ Continue Reading ]
When ye reap, thou — From the plural, ye, he comes to the singular, thou, because he would press this duty upon every person who hath an harvest to reap, that none might plead exemption from it. And it is observable, that though the present business is only concerning the worship of God, yet he make... [ Continue Reading ]
A sabbath — Solemnized with the blowing of trumpets by the priests, not in a common way, as they did every first day of every month, but in an extraordinary manner, not only in Jerusalem, but in all the cities of Israel. They began to blow at sun — rise, and continued blowing till sun — set. This se... [ Continue Reading ]
Afflict your souls — With fasting, and bitter repentance for all, especially their national sins, among which no doubt God would have them remember their sin of the golden calf. For as God had threatened to remember it in after times to punish them for it, so there was great reason why they should r... [ Continue Reading ]
Whatsoever soul — Either of the Jewish nation, or religion. Hereby God would signify the absolute necessity which every man had of repentance and forgiveness of sin, and the desperate condition of all impenitent persons.... [ Continue Reading ]
From even to even — The day of atonement began at the evening of the ninth day, and continued till the evening of the tenth day. Ye shall celebrate your sabbath — This particular sabbath is called your sabbath, possibly to note the difference between this and other sabbaths: for the weekly sabbath i... [ Continue Reading ]
Of tabernacles — Of tents or booths or arbours. This feast was appointed to remind them of that time when they had no other dwellings in the wilderness, and to stir them up to bless God, as well for the gracious protection then afforded them, as for the more commodious habitations now given them; an... [ Continue Reading ]
Ye shall offer — A several — offering each day. The eighth day — Which though it was not one of the days of this feast strictly taken. Yet in a larger sense it belonged to this feast, and is called the great day of the feast, John 7:37. And so indeed it was, as for other reasons, so because, by thei... [ Continue Reading ]
A sacrifice — A sin — offering, called by the general name, a sacrifice, because it was designed for that which was the principal end of all sacrifices, the expiation of sin.... [ Continue Reading ]
Beside the sabbaths — The offerings of the weekly sabbaths. God will not have any sabbath — sacrifice diminished because of the addition of others, proper to any other feast. And it is here to be noted, that though other festival days are sometimes called sabbaths, yet these are here called the sabb... [ Continue Reading ]
This is no addition of a new, but only a repetition of the former injunction, with a more particular explication both of the manner and reason of the feast. The fruit — Not the corn, which was gathered long before, but that of the trees, as vines, olives, and other fruit — trees: which compleated th... [ Continue Reading ]
Of goodly trees — Namely, olive, myrtle and pine, mentioned, Nehemiah 8:15, which were most plentiful there, and which would best preserve their greenness. Thick trees — Fit for shade and shelter. And willows — To mix with the other, and in some sort bind them together. And as they made their booths... [ Continue Reading ]
In booths — Which were erected in their cities or towns, either in their streets, or gardens, or the tops of their houses. These were made flat, and therefore were fit for the use.... [ Continue Reading ]
The feasts of the Lord — We have reason to be thankful, that the feasts of the Lord, now are not so numerous, nor the observance of them so burdensome and costly; but more spiritual and significant, and surer and sweeter earnests of the everlasting feast, at the last in — gathering, which we hope to... [ Continue Reading ]