_THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL ARE COMMANDED TO OFFER ALL THEIR SACRIFICES AT THE TABERNACLE: THE EATING OF BLOOD IS PROHIBITED; AS ALSO OF THAT WHICH DIETH OF ITSELF, OR IS TORN BY BEASTS._ _Before Christ 1490._... [ Continue Reading ]
WHAT MAN SOEVER THERE BE OF THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL, &C.— This law forbids any beast to be slain for domestic use, unless the blood be poured or sprinkled upon the altar; lest, if they should be slain out of the camp, and the blood poured on the ground, it should give room for idolatry, the Gentiles oft... [ Continue Reading ]
THE PRIEST SHALL SPRINKLE THE BLOOD, &C.— The _Zabii,_ that they might get into friendship and fellowship with their daemons, used to receive the blood of their beasts which were slain into some vessel or little trench, and to sit about it, and eat the flesh; imagining that the blood was the food of... [ Continue Reading ]
THEY SHALL NO MORE OFFER THEIR SACRIFICES UNTO DEVILS— The original word here rendered _devils,_ is שׂעירים _serim,_ which properly signifies _goats,_ from their _rough_ and _shaggy_ hair: and it is well known, that some of the most ancient idolaters worshipped their false deities under the shape of... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR THE LIFE OF THE FLESH IS IN THE BLOOD— In Genesis 9:4 the eating of blood is forbidden. Dr. James upon his plan observes, that it was prohibited for reasons of health, as blood is extremely subject to an alcaline putrefaction, and the juices formed from it are highly alcalescent, and subject to... [ Continue Reading ]
AND EVERY SOUL THAT EATETH THAT WHICH DIED OF ITSELF— See Exodus 22:31. Dr. James observes upon the 13th, and this 15th verse, that, if an animal has been heated by hunting, there seems a further reason to let it bleed, in order to lessen that tendency to putrefaction which it acquires by exercise a... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT IF HE WASH THEM NOT— _Note;_ If our iniquity be not taken away by the washing of regeneration, it will be a burden which we can never bear ourselves, but which must sink us into eternal perdition.... [ Continue Reading ]