Leviticus 18 - Introduction
_THE PROHIBITED DEGREES OF MARRIAGE: SEVERAL ACTS OF IMPURITY ARE FORBIDDEN._ _Before Christ 1490._... [ Continue Reading ]
_THE PROHIBITED DEGREES OF MARRIAGE: SEVERAL ACTS OF IMPURITY ARE FORBIDDEN._ _Before Christ 1490._... [ Continue Reading ]
WHICH IF A MAN DO, HE SHALL LIVE IN THEM— That the primary sense of these words refers to that temporal life and prosperity which God promised to the Jews as the consequence of their obedience, there can be no question; see Deuteronomy 30:15; Deuteronomy 32:47 compared with Proverbs 3:2; Proverbs 3:... [ Continue Reading ]
NONE OF YOU, &C.— Improper and incestuous marriages, which were extremely common, not only among the Egyptians and Canaanites, but other Eastern idolaters, are here first prohibited. There were to be no marriages between those who were near of kin. The word שׁאר _sheir,_ denotes _cosanguinity._ For... [ Continue Reading ]
THOU SHALT NOT, &C.— This prohibition being delivered more at large in the 20th chapter, we refer to it. A commentator, however, observes on this passage, that "Moloch was a name common to all the gods, as also Baal, under which name the Gentiles worshipped some eminent daemon or hero, but most comm... [ Continue Reading ]
THE LAND ITSELF VOMITETH OUT HER INHABITANTS— One cannot conceive a stronger figure. _The land,_ by an elegant prosopopaeia, is personified, and represented as so sensible of the loathsome wickedness of her inhabitants, as to nauseate them on that account, and to cast them as offensive from her stom... [ Continue Reading ]
ABOMINABLE CUSTOMS— Hebrew, _statutes of abomination;_ whereby, says Dr. Beaumont, are meant sinful practices, which, through custom, grew to be as laws among them. It is to be observed, that God, who is no respecter of persons, threatens to the Israelites the same ejection from the land, out of whi... [ Continue Reading ]