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The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 1:9
Our reasonable service. The burnt offering appears to have been the most general of the sacrifices presented to Jehovah, and to have had the widest significance. Its spiritual counterpart is furnished in Romans 12:1. Me…
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 1:9
The priest shall burn all on the altar, etc. The fourth and last part of the sacrifice. The word employed is not the common term used for destroying by fire, but means "make to ascend." The life of the animal has alread…
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 1:10-17
The burnt offering of the flock and of the fowls. The ceremony of the offering of the flock is almost identical with that of the herd described in the verses preceding. In that of the fowls there is a wider dissimilarit…
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 1:10
If his offering be of the flocks. The ritual of the burnt offering was the same. whether the victim was a hull, sheep, or goat.
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 1:10-13
The offering from the flocks. Sheep or goat. This is a repetition of the same law as applied to the offering of lower value. The great spiritual fact is thus set forth that God is no respecter of persons. His Law applie…
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 1:11
He shall kill it on the side of the altar, northward before the Lord. In the sacrifice of the bullock it is only "before the Lord" (Leviticus 1:5). No doubt the same place is meant in both cases, but it is specified wit…
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 1:14-17
The offering of fowls-turtle-doves or young pigeons. The great abundance of these birds in the East would make the provision one which was easy even for the poorest to fulfil. How gracious this appointment! God is no "h…
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 1:14
If the burnt sacrifice for his offering to the Lord be of fowls. A comparison of Le Leviticus 12:8 leads us to infer that the permission to offer a bird was a concession to poverty. The pigeon and the turtle-dove were t…
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 1:15
The priest shall bring it unto the altar. The difference in the ritual for the burnt sacrifice of fowls is: 1. That the offerer is not commanded to lay his hand on the bird. 2. That the altar is the place of maciation,…
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 1:16
With his feathers, rather the contents of the crop. This and the ashes are to be placed beside the altar on the east part, as being furthest from the tabernacle and nearest to the entrance of the court, so that they mig…
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 2:1-3
Mediate and immediate presentation. The abrogation by Christianity of the rites and ceremonies of Judaism does not prevent the necessity nor dispel the advantages of becoming acquainted with the laws by which the ancien…
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 2:1-16
EXPOSITION THE MEAT OFFERING. The regulation of the burnt offering as a Levitical institution is immediately followed by a similar regulation of the meat offering, consisting of flour and oil, with salt and frankincense…
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 2:1
And when any will offer a meat offering unto the Lord. The word used in the original for "meat offering" (minchah), means, like its Greek equivalent, δῶρον, a gift made by an inferior to a superior. Thus the sacrifices…
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 2:1-3
The meat offering. The offering of meat or food, consisting of fine flour, with frankincense, cakes and wafers, parched grain, suited to all classes. The general meaning was probably eucharistic. A portion of bread, fir…
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 2:1-16
Our recognition of the hand of God in the blessings of life. The fact that the law of the meat offering follows that of the burnt offering is itself significant. It suggests— I. THE TRUE ORDER OF THE DIVINE LIFE IN MAN.…
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 2:1-16
The meat offering. It consisted of a gift to God of the products of the earth most needed for the support of life—flour and oil, to which were added salt and frankincense, and it was generally accompanied by the drink o…
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 2:1-11
Consecrated life-work, as brought out in the meat offering. cf. John 4:34; Acts 10:4; Philippians 4:18; John 6:27. The idea prominently presented in the burnt offering is, we have seen, personal consecration, on the gro…
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 2:1-10
The feast upon the minchah. In our remarks upon the two first of these verses, we viewed the minchah, or meat offering, as a type of Christ. Upon this point additional light may be incidentally thrown as we now proceed…
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 2:2
He shall take there out his handful. This was the task of the priest. The handful that he took and burnt upon the altar has the technical and significative name of the memorial. It acted as a memorial before God, in the…
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 2:3-10
Priest and people: reciprocal services. Two things are stated in the Law concerning the priesthood. I. THAT EVERY POSSIBLE THING WAS DONE TO IMPART TO THEM PECULIAR SANCTITY. They were separated and sanctified by variou…
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 2:3
The remnant of the meat offering shall be Aaron's and his sons'. The meat offerings must have gone far to supply the priests with farinaceous food, as, for every handful of flour burnt on the altar, nearly a gallon went…
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 2:4-11
The second form of meat offering, when the flour and oil were made up into four varieties of cakes. The ritual of offering is not different from that of the first form. The frankincense is not mentioned, but doubtless i…
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 2:4-16
The various kinds of meat offerings. Without dwelling on every minute regulation, the following main points may be distinguished as representative. I. OFFERED FOOD. Acknowledgment of dependence. Praise for life and its…
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 2:7-13
The offering of daily life. It is interesting to perceive how the instructions here recorded made it possible for all classes of the people to bring sacrifices to Jehovah. None could complain of want of sufficient means…