Leviticus 22 - Introduction
_CONCERNING THE UNCLEANNESS OF THE PRIESTS, AND THE PERFECTION OF THE SACRIFICES._ _Before Christ 1490._... [ Continue Reading ]
_CONCERNING THE UNCLEANNESS OF THE PRIESTS, AND THE PERFECTION OF THE SACRIFICES._ _Before Christ 1490._... [ Continue Reading ]
THAT THEY SEPARATE THEMSELVES— Or, _That they abstain._ These cautions respecting _abstinence from the holy things,_—from that food which was allotted to the families of the priests, are to be understood as of the same import with those mentioned in the former chapter; alike calculated to preserve a... [ Continue Reading ]
_LEVITICUS 22:3_.— Houbigant renders this verse better, _when he is unclean._ The meaning of the phrase, _he shall be cut off from my presence,_ is given us in the 9th verse; _he shall die._... [ Continue Reading ]
WHAT MAN SOEVER OF THE SEED OF AARON IS A LEPER— These defilements, spoken of at large in the 15th chapter, were to seclude the priests from all public offices, in the same manner as they secluded common Israelites from the general intercourse of life. The words, _whoso toucheth any thing that is un... [ Continue Reading ]
HOLY THING— Compare chap. Leviticus 21:22.... [ Continue Reading ]
IF THE PRIEST BUY ANY SOUL— See chap. Leviticus 25:39; Leviticus 25:44. The word _stranger,_ in the next verse, signifies as in the 10th verse, one who is not of the priest's family.... [ Continue Reading ]
HE SHALL PUT THE FIFTH PART THEREOF UNTO IT— The meaning is, that the person, thus ignorantly offending, should, to the full worth of the thing, add a fifth part, and so restore to the priest what he had inadvertently applied to his own use.... [ Continue Reading ]
SHALL NOT PROFANE THE HOLY THINGS— That this verse refers to the priests, and not to the people, is evident from the context, and from the following verse. Provision is made in the former verse, that the holy things appropriated to their maintenance should be exactly rendered to the priests: here it... [ Continue Reading ]
YE SHALL OFFER AT YOUR OWN WILL A MALE WITHOUT BLEMISH— Laws are next given to provide for the perfection of the sacrifices, as well as of the sacrificers. Upon this head, we refer to the last note of the foregoing chapter, The _strangers in Israel,_ Leviticus 22:18 signify the proselytes of the gat... [ Continue Reading ]
THAT MAYEST THOU OFFER FOR A FREE-WILL-OFFERING, &C.— Some render this, _If thou offer it either for a free-will-offering, or for a vow, it shall not be accepted._ The Hebrew will certainly bear this interpretation; and the 21st verse both requires and justifies it.... [ Continue Reading ]
NEITHER SHALL YE MAKE ANY OFFERING THEREOF IN YOUR LAND— Though there is nothing for _offering_ in the Hebrew, yet the verb and the context sufficiently shew, that our version has added it with great propriety. The four participles, _bruised, crushed, broken, cut,_ have immediate reference to the wo... [ Continue Reading ]
THE BREAD OF YOUR GOD— Or, _The food of your God, i.e._ Sacrifices. [_Because their corruption is in them,—blemishes be in them._] As in the original of these words we find no connective particle, blemishes may be either understood as explanatory of _corruption;_ [_corruption, i.e. blemishes be in t... [ Continue Reading ]
WHETHER IT BE COW OR EWE— This law appears to be of the same nature with several others that we have heretofore remarked, inculcating humanity: accordingly, Maimonides considers it as such: and Jonathan, in his paraphrase, understands it as a symbolical precept, teaching the Israelites to be _mercif... [ Continue Reading ]
NEITHER SHALL YE PROFANE MY HOLY NAME, &C.— "An attentive observation of the law," says Selden, "was called by the Hebrews, sanctification of the divine name; and the doing any thing contrary to the law, profanation of that name." REFLECTIONS.—(1.) Our Lord Jesus was thus a lamb without spot or ble... [ Continue Reading ]