Deuteronomy 14 - Introduction
_MOSES FORBIDS THEIR CUTTING THEMSELVES AT FUNERALS: INFORMS THEM WHAT MAY BE EATEN, AND WHAT NOT. CONCERNING TITHES, AND THE PAYMENT OF THEM IN MONEY._ _Before Christ 1451._... [ Continue Reading ]
_MOSES FORBIDS THEIR CUTTING THEMSELVES AT FUNERALS: INFORMS THEM WHAT MAY BE EATEN, AND WHAT NOT. CONCERNING TITHES, AND THE PAYMENT OF THEM IN MONEY._ _Before Christ 1451._... [ Continue Reading ]
_VER._ 1. _YE SHALL NOT CUT YOURSELVES,_ &C.— See Leviticus 19:28. Mr. Locke, upon the words, _ye shall not make any baldness between your eyes,_ remarks, that the meaning is, "when any of your friends are dead, you shall not shave the forepart of your head, which is between your eyes, as the heathe... [ Continue Reading ]
VER. 1-21. God, having chosen Israel for his own, separated them from the nations, adopted them as his children, and designed them for his glory, has a right to expect from them that they should answer these purposes of his grace, and approve themselves a holy people before him. And this must appear... [ Continue Reading ]
_VER._ 3. _ANY ABOMINABLE THING_— Not that the things were abominable in themselves, but they were to be looked upon as such, being forbidden by the ordinance of God, and, most probably, abused by the heathens to some idolatrous purposes.... [ Continue Reading ]
_VER._ 5. _THE FALLOW-DEER_— It is not certain what animal is meant by the word יחמור _iachmor,_ which we render _fallow-deer._ Parkhurst says, it is the _antelope,_ an animal of the _deer_ kind, very _fierce_ and _quarrelsome_ (whence its name). It is found in Syria, about the Euphrates; and the Ar... [ Continue Reading ]
_VER._ 13. _AND THE GLEDE_— The _glede_ is a bird of the vulture kind, denominated in the Hebrew from its _sharp sight:_ it is not specified in Leviticus.... [ Continue Reading ]
_VER._ 20. _BUT OF ALL CLEAN FOWLS_— Rather, of _all clean flying things:_ it is principally meant of the insect kind, locusts especially. See Leviticus 11:21.... [ Continue Reading ]
_VER._ 21. _YE SHALL NOT EAT OF ANY THING THAT DIETH OF ITSELF_— To this discourse about food it was proper to add a caution, that though they might kill and eat any clean creature, yet, if it died of itself, it was unlawful to eat it, because the blood was in it. _Proselytes of the gate,_ who were... [ Continue Reading ]
_VER._ 22. _THOU SHALT TRULY TITHE ALL THE INCREASE OF THY SEED_— This is meant of the second tithe, as appears from the following verses, compared with Numbers 18:24; Numbers 18:32.... [ Continue Reading ]
_VER._ 23. _THAT THOU MAYEST LEARN TO FEAR THE LORD THY GOD ALWAYS_— That is, that thou mayest be accustomed to the worship of the only true God; for that is sometimes the meaning of the word _to learn._ Thus the design of this and their other annual feasts was, to preserve them steadfast in their r... [ Continue Reading ]
_VER._ 26. _AND THOU SHALT REJOICE_— See ch. Deuteronomy 12:7. This is no other than an injunction on the Hebrew nation to use one part of their income in hospitality; to rejoice in the goodness of God, when they came before his presence; to acknowledge that they owed all their blessings to his prot... [ Continue Reading ]
_VER._ 28. _AT THE END OF THREE YEARS_— It is the opinion of the rabbis, that this is not a distinct tithe from what they call the _second tithe,_ paid every year; but the very same which, every third year, was not to be carried to the sanctuary as in the other years, but to be employed to the comfo... [ Continue Reading ]