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The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 2:11-13
Purity in worship. When the Hebrew worshipper had presented his burnt offering, had sought forgiveness of sin, and had dedicated himself to God in sacred symbolism, he then brought of the produce of the land, of that wh…
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 2:11-13
Notable things. After describing the minchah under sundry forms, and before proceeding to the meat offering of the firstfruits, certain notable things are mentioned which the minchah has in common with sacrifices in gen…
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 2:12-16
About honouring God with our firstfruits. cf. Proverbs 3:9; 1 Corinthians 15:23; James 1:18. This arrangement about the firstfruits, though appended to the meat offering, demands a special notice. The meat offering, we…
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 2:13
The salt of the covenant. It has been thought by some unworthy of the notion of an Infinite Being to consider him as concerned about such petty details as those here laid down for observance. But since the Deity had to…
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 2:13
Every oblation of thy meat offering shalt thou season with salt. Salt is commanded as symbolizing in things spiritual, because preserving in things physical, incorruption. It is an emblem of an established and enduring…
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 2:13
Salt was to be used with all the sacrifices. Cf. Ezekiel 43:24; Mark 9:49. I. WHAT IT RECALLED TO THE MIND OF THE OFFERER. The eating of bread and salt together being the ceremony which finally ratified an agreement or…
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 2:14-16
The minchah of the firstfruits. Having viewed the minchah as a type of Christ, and having considered the feast upon it as expressing fellowship with God in him, we proceed to consider the offering of the firstfruits, wh…
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 2:14-16
The third form of meat offering, parched grains of corn, with oil, salt, and frankincense. The mark of a new paragraph should be transferred from Leviticus 2:12 to the beginning of Leviticus 2:14. HOMILETICS
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 4:1-12
The sin offering viewed as typical of the Sacrifice of Calvary. This subject wilt be best considered by citing sonic of the more notable references to it contained in the Scriptures of the New Testament. I. IT IS ENVINC…
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 4:1-35
EXPOSITION THE SIN OFFERING (Leviticus 4:1-35, Leviticus 5:1-13). At the time of the Mosaic legislation, burnt offerings and meat offerings were already in existence, and had existed from the time of the Fall. A beginni…
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 4:1-35
The sin offering signifies and ceremonially effects propitiation and expiation. Its characteristic feature, therefore, is the presentation of the blood of the victim, which in this sacrifice alone (when it was offered f…
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 4:1-35
Atonement for the penitent, as illustrated in the sin offering. Le Leviticus 5:1-13; cf. Psalms 19:12; Galatians 6:1; 1 Timothy 1:13, etc. The offerings already considered, viz. the burnt offering, the meat offering, an…
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 4:1-3
The sin offering for the priest. The revelations contained in the preceding chapters, and commencing with the words, "And the Lord called unto Moses," etc; appear to have been given at one diet, and now we are introduce…
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 4:2
The mind of God respecting the sin of man. "If a soul shall sin." This chapter which treats of this sin offering, and more especially these words of the second verse, may remind us— I. THAT ALL MEN HAVE SINNED, AND ARE…
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 4:2
If a soul shall sin. The conditions to be fulfilled in presenting a sin offering differed according to the position held by the offerer in the state. If it were the high priest, he had (1) to offer a young bull in the c…
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 4:3-12
Rites essential to an atonement. Who could stand in the tabernacle court without having imprinted on his mind the view God takes of the guilt of sin, and the necessity for the sinner's deliverance from its results? The…
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 4:3
Let him bring for his sin, which he hath sinned. The atonement for involuntary transgression. The Book of Leviticus well repays careful perusal in days when there are many attempts made to lessen men's sense of the enor…
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 4:3-12
The case of the high priest. He is designated the priest that is anointed, in respect to which title, see notes on Leviticus 8:1-36. In case he sins in his representative character, his sin is such as to bring guilt on…
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 4:3-12
The high priest's burnt offering. The difference between the high priest's offering and that for the whole congregation on the one hand, and the offering for an offending ruler or any of the common people on the other,…
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 4:13-21
The whole congregation sinners through ignorance. The sacrifice is very similar to the high priest's. The ruling thought in both cases is that of sin attaching to those who represent the covenant of God. The people, whe…
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 4:13-21
The case of the whole congregation. A nation may become guilty of national sin in different ways, according to its political constitution: most directly, by the action of a popular Legislature passing a decree such as t…
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 4:13-21
Sin offering for the congregation. The congregation of Israel sustained a twofold character, viz. a political and an ecclesiastical; for it was at once a Nation and a Church. Here we have— I. THE SIN OF A NATION. Leviti…
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 4:22-35
The sin offering of the rider and of any of the people. As in the preceding paragraph we have lessons from the relation of sin offering to communities, here we are reminded— I. THAT INDIVIDUALS ARE RESPONSIBLE TO GOD. W…
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 4:22-26
The case of a ruler or nobleman. The clause, Or if his sin … come to his knowledge, should be rather translated, If perhaps his sin come to his knowledge. He is to offer a kid of the goats, or rather a he-goat. The bloo…