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Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Leviticus 2:11

leaven. See App-38.

honey. Leaven is fermentation, and honey or any sweet liquor is the cause of it. These two things forbidden because there was no error or corruption in the Antitype. All was Divine perfection. Nothing therefore which answers to leaven may be in our sacrifice of praise now.

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See also Leviticus 2:11 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Leviticus 2:11. _NO MEAT-OFFERING - SHALL BE MADE WITH LEAVEN_] See the reason of this prohibition in the note on Exodus 12:8. Exodus 12:8. _NOR ANY HONEY_] Because it was apt to produce acidi

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    AS FOR THE OBLATION OF THE FIRSTFRUITS - Rather, As an oblation of firstfruits. The words refer to the leaven and honey mentioned in Leviticus 2:11 which might be offered among the firstfruits and tit...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    2. THE MEAL OFFERING CHAPTER 2 _ 1. The general instruction (Leviticus 2:1)_ 2. Baked in the oven (Leviticus 2:4) 3. Baked in a pan (Leviticus 2:5) 4. Baked in a frying pan ...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    ADDITIONAL DIRECTIONS. The different kinds of meal offerings, and some further general rules. The offering might be in the form of thin wafers, or of girdle cakes (a baking pan is a flat plate or grid...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Leaven and honey are not to be mixed with any offering made by fire; they shall be offered as an oblation of _firstfruits_(Heb. _rçshîth_) but not on the altar (Leviticus 2:12). See Driver (_C. B._) o...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    YE SHALL BURN NO LEAVEN, NOR ANY HONEY— In our note on Exodus 12:8 we have assigned some reasons why _leaven_ was forbidden. It is more difficult to say why _honey_ was prohibited. It is certain, that...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    c. THE MEAL OFFERING 2:1-16 TEXT 2:1-16 1 And when any one offereth an oblation of a meal-offering unto Jehovah, his oblation shall be of fine flour; and he shall pour oil upon it, and put frankince...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _NO MEAT OFFERING, WHICH YE SHALL BRING UNTO THE LORD, SHALL BE MADE WITH LEAVEN: FOR YE SHALL BURN NO LEAVEN, NOR ANY HONEY, IN ANY OFFERING OF THE LORD MADE BY FIRE._ No leaven, nor any honey. Leav...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    2:11 burn (a-22) See Note i, ch. 1.9....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    THE MEAL OFFERING The rendering of AV MEAT OFFERING is liable to misunderstanding, as meat now suggests flesh meat. But this is a vegetable, or bloodless, sacrifice, a consecration to God of the produ...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    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...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    NO MEAT OFFERING. — Leviticus 2:11 add some general rules respecting meat offerings. As honey was used in olden times to produce fermentation, it is excluded, like fermented dough, from these offering...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    כָּל ־הַ מִּנְחָ֗ה אֲשֶׁ֤ר תַּקְרִ֨יבוּ֙ לַ י

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    THE MEAL OFFERING Leviticus 2:1; Leviticus 6:14 THE word which in the original uniformly stands for the English "meal offering" (A.V "meat offering," _ i.e._, " food offering") primarily means simply...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    MEAL-OFFERINGS WITH OIL AND INCENSE Leviticus 2:1 The meal-offering, which is described in this chapter, portrayed in emblem the perfect character of our Lord. He was as fine flour, of the best quali...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    In the meal offering was presented another side of the great truth of personal dedication. In itself the offering was of the work of man's hands, the fruits of the ground, the result of civilization,...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    Without leaven or honey. No leaven or honey was to be used in the sacrifice offered to God: to signify that we are to exclude from the pure worship of the gospel, all double-dealing and affection to c...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    We read before of GOD'S solemn prohibition of leaven. Exodus 12:15. No doubt some important doctrine was veiled under this covering. And what more likely, than to teach, that a whole Savior, and not l...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    The book of Leviticus has its own character quite as manifestly as Genesis or Exodus. Its peculiar feature is that from its very starting-point it is the revelation of what God saw in Jesus Christ our...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    11._No meat-offering, which ye shall bring. _God here forbids leavened cakes to be offered to Him, by which rite the ancients were taught that God’s service is corrupted if any strange invention be mi...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    I now turn to the meat-offering. This presents to us the humanity of Christ; His grace and perfectness as a living man, but still as offered to God and fully tested. It was of fine flour without leave...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    NO MEAT OFFERING WHICH YE SHALL BRING UNTO THE LORD SHALL BE MADE WITH LEAVEN,.... It might be used in peace offerings, and in the wave loaves, Leviticus 7:13 but not in meat offerings; not only in th...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    No meat offering, which ye shall bring unto the LORD, shall be made with leaven: for ye shall burn no leaven, nor any honey, in any offering of the LORD made by fire. Ver. 11. _Nor any honey._] Which...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _No leaven_ Namely, in that which is offered of free-will; for in other offerings it might be used, Leviticus 7:13; Leviticus 23:17. This was forbidden, partly to remind them of their deliverance out...

  • KJV Original Language Details

    1 The meate offering of flower with oile and incense, 4 either baken in the ouen, 5 or on a plate, 7 or in a frying pan, 12 Or of the first fruits in the eare. 13 The salt of the meate offering....

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    No meat-offering which ye shall bring unto the Lord shall be made with leaven, leaven being considered an impure addition in this case on account of its fermenting property; FOR YE SHALL BURN NO LEAVE...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE VARIOUS KINDS OF MEAT-OFFERINGS....

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    THE MEAL OFFERING (VV. 1-16) This offering is an appendix to the burnt offering. We do not read of a meal offering ever being offered alone, but in connection with the burnt offering or the peace offe...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    1-11 Meat-offerings may typify Christ, as presented to God for us, and as being the Bread of life to our souls; but they rather seem to denote our obligation to God for the blessings of providence, a...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    NO MEAT OFFERING, to wit, which is offered of free will; for in other offerings it might be used, LEVITICUS 7:13, LEVITICUS 23:17. SHALL BE MADE WITH LEAVEN: this was forbidden, partly to mind them of...

  • Notes on the Pentateuch by Charles Henry Mackintosh

    We, now, come to consider the meat offering which presents, in a very distinct manner, the man Christ Jesus." As the Burnt offering typifies Christ in death, the meat offering typifies Him in life. In...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Leviticus 2:11 offering H4503 bring H7126 (H8686) LORD H3068 made H6213 (H8735) leaven H2557 burn H6999 ...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    THE GRAIN OFFERING MUST NOT CONTAIN ANYTHING THAT CORRUPTS BUT WHAT PRESERVES (LEVITICUS 2:11). It is now pointed out that the Grain Offering must not contain anything that ferments, neither leaven n...

  • Scofield's Bible Commentary

    LEAVEN honey For meanings of leaven, see ( Mat_13:.33). Also (Leviticus 7:13), (_ See Scofield) - (Leviticus 7:13) _ HONEY honey is mere natural sweetness and could not symbolize the divine graci...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Meat offering and first-fruits laws. CHARACTERS: God, Moses, Aaron's sons. CONCLUSION: Leaven, typifying malice, wickedness and human pride is not accepted in spiritual sacrifices. Take he...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Leviticus 2:1. _When any_ (Hebrews _nephesh_) _soul;_ to denote that true religion is seated in the heart. _Offer a meat-offering_ (Hebrews _mincha_) which Aquila renders, a gift of wheat to the Lord....

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _A meat-offering._ THE MEAT-OFFERING It is only when we have received Christ in His character of a sacrifice for our sins, that we are in a condition to render ourselves a living sacrifice, so as to...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    LEVITICUS—NOTE ON LEVITICUS 2:1__ The GRAIN OFFERING (see also Leviticus 6:14) would ordinarily be offered with a burnt or peace offering. It probably served

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    LEVITICUS—NOTE ON LEVITICUS 2:11 The worshipers are prohibited from burning LEAVEN or HONEY on the altar, though the text does not explain why. They could, however, SEASON their

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    Bloodless Sacrifices: The food-Offerings SUGGESTIVE READINGS Leviticus 2:1. His offering shall be of fine flour.—Sacrifices for the “meat offering” were from the vegetable, not animal, kingdom. _Food...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION THE MEAT OFFERING. The regulation of the burnt offering as a Levitical institution is immediately followed by a similar regulation of the meat offering, consisting of flour and oil, with sa...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    In chapter two the next offering that we have is the meal offering. And this they would take the fine flour, mix it with oil and frankincense, and make up a dough that they would put on the fire to mo...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Corinthians 5:6; 1 Peter 4:2; Acts 14:22; Exodus 12:19; Exodus 12:20

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    No leaven — Namely, in that which is offered of free — will; for in other offerings it might be used, Leviticus 7:13, Leviticus 23:17. This was forbidden, partly to mind them of their deliverance out...

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