CONTENTS
As the preceding chapter contained the law respecting, unclean
persons, in this we have the law concerning the Nazarites who were
devoted to the LORD by their vows. The chapter is rendered interesting
also, from another consideration, in that it closes with the blessing,
wherewith the LORD... [ Continue Reading ]
It is hardly possible to enter upon the perusal of this chapter, on
the subject of the Nazarites, without calling to mind him, who at his
entrance into the world, in substance of our flesh, we are told, came
and dwelt in a city called Nazareth, that it might be fulfilled which
was spoken by the prop... [ Continue Reading ]
And was not JESUS separated, and solemnly set apart to the service of
his FATHER? Reader, do not forget what JESUS hath said himself,
respecting this, of being sanctified or set apart for his people. John
17:19.... [ Continue Reading ]
How precious is it to behold, in this instance also, the blessed JESUS
typified. The Church is described by Solomon under this similitude:
Her hair is a flock of goats that appear from Mount Gilead. Song 1-8.
And are not the LORD'S people like the hairs of his head, a multitude
which grow upon him,... [ Continue Reading ]
Our dear LORD here manifested his holiness, for though touching a dead
body, as in the case of those he raised from the dead, yet he himself
contracted no uncleanness! How sweet and delightful it is to see, that
in all he did and suffered for us, it conveyed no shadow of taint to
him. He was made si... [ Continue Reading ]
Secondarily and subordinately to the grand subject, of being typical
to the ever blessed Nazarite, the LORD JESUS CHRIST, we may behold in
this chapter, several circumstances which had a reference to the
character of the Nazarites in general. Those verses particularly point
out the law, as it relate... [ Continue Reading ]
Let not the Reader overlook in all this process of the sin-offering,
and meat-offering, and drink-offering, and peace-offering, now that
one grand and all sufficient-offering of the LORD JESUS is shadowed
forth. The waving before the LORD evidently manifested to when the
offering was made: and while... [ Continue Reading ]
I have often considered the blessing here appointed by GOD himself, as
being a very striking form of expression. This is what may be
considered as the great standard for blessing GOD'S people, in the Old
Testament dispensation, as that expressed by the apostle Paul, is the
order under the New: 2 Cor... [ Continue Reading ]
REFLECTIONS
HERE, my soul, let me stand and view, in the contemplation of the
Nazarites, that holy Nazarite, that unequalled spotless SON of GOD,
who for my sake separated himself from all that was corrupt in our
nature, when in that nature he undertook and accomplished, the
salvation of his people... [ Continue Reading ]