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The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 15:25
twelve years seems to rise up before us as we read, this verse. Jesus was going on an errand of mercy to heal the daughter of Jairus, and as he went the people thronged him. "And a certain woman, which had an issue of b…
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 15:28
If she be cleansed of her issue. In the first and the fifth cases, the presentation of two turtle-doves or two young pigeons as a sin offering and a burnt offering is enjoined as the ceremonial cleansing required. In th…
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 15:31
That they die not in their uncleanness, when they defile my tabernacle that is among them. The main purpose in the laws of uncleanness is to keep first God's house and then God's people free from the danger of defilemen…
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 17:1-16
Grace before meat. Cf. 1혻Corinthians 10:31. From the perfect atonement God provides, we are invited next to turn to the morality he requires. And no better beginning can be made than the acknowledgment of God in connect…
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 17:1-16
EXPOSITION This chapter finds its natural place here as the supplement of all that has gone before. The first part of the book contains the institution or regulation of the sacrificial system (chapters 1-7). This chapte…
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 17:1-9
Sacrifice is not in itself enough; there must be uniformity in the manner in which it is offered, and identity of place in which it is made. The seven first chapters of the Book of Leviticus have given a minute statemen…
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 17:1-16
Statutes concerning blood. The sacredness of blood is everywhere marked in Scripture. The chapter before us contains some of the more important statutes concerning it. I. IN RESPECT TO THE BLOOD OF SACRIFICE. 1. It must…
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 17:1-7
One place of sacrifice. It is of the essence of law to be impartial. Its precepts apply to all without distinction. "Aaron and his sons and all the children of Israel" are here included in the scope of the Divine comman…
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 17:1-7
Features of Christian service. It is open to question whether the prohibition (Leviticus 17:3, Leviticus 17:4) extends to all animals killed for feed, or only to those slain in sacrifice. The former view is, in my judgm…
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 17:1-9
Sanctity of animal life. All God's people commanded to observe restrictions as to the shedding of blood. Door of the tabernacle connected with the sphere of common life; thus religion and its duty threw sacredness over…
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 17:3
What man soever there be of the house of Israel, that killeth an ox, or lamb, or goat. The use of the word killeth, instead of sacrificeth, is one of the chief causes of the error referred to above, which represents thi…
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 17:4
In case a man offers a sacrifice elsewhere than at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation,??blood shall be imputed unto that man; that is, it shall no longer be regarded as a sacrifice at all, but an unjustifiab…
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 17:5
To the end that the children of Israel may bring their sacrifices. This passage tells us the purpose of the previous command: it is to prevent sacrifices being sacrificed (the word is twice used in the original) in the…
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 17:6
The priest, that is, the Levitical priest, is henceforth to sprinkle the blood upon the altar of the Lord ??and burn the fat for a sweet savour, which were the two parts of the sacrifice which were essentially priestly…
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 17:7
And they shall no more offer their sacrifices unto devils, after whom they have gone a whoring. The word rightly translated devils means, literally, shaggy goats (see 2혻Chronicles 11:15; Isaiah 13:21; Isaiah 34:14; wher…
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 17:10-16
Atoning death. We have here a repetition of a law which had already been twice delivered (Leviticus 3:17; Leviticus 7:23-26). Its full and formal restatement is very significant, and this the more because of the emphati…
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 17:10-13
The eating of blood is strictly prohibited; Therefore our Lord's words must have sounded so much the more strange in the ears of the Jews, when he said, "Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, y…
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 17:10-16
Leviticus 17:11, "The life of the flesh is in the blood: and I have given it to you upon the altar to make an atonement for your souls: for it is the blood that maketh an atonement for the soul." I. THE NATURAL BASIS OF…
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 17:11
The sanctity of the atoning blood. No act was more strongly denounced than that of eating any manner of blood. The man guilty of that deed, whether an Israelite or a stranger sojourning in the land, was threatened with…
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 17:12
This verse emphatically restates that the atoning power of the blood, as being the seat of life, is the reason that the eating of it is forbidden, and the same statement is repeated in a different connexion in Leviticus…
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 18:1-30
Unworldliness. cf. Romans 12:2. The next element in the morality required of the Lord's people is non-conformity to this world. We are such imitative creatures that we are prone to do as our neighbours do, without quest…
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 18:1-18
The restraints thrown about marriage by God's Law are not meant to confine within the narrowest limits that which is a necessary evil, but to guard a holy institution, and prevent its being corrupted by abuse. Manichaea…
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 18:1-5
Form an introduction to the Hebrew code of prohibited degrees of marriage and of forbidden sins of lust. The formal and solemn declaration, I am the Lord your God, is made three times in these five verses. This places b…
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 18:1-30
PART III. SECTION III. EXPOSITION MORAL UNCLEANNESS AND ITS PUNISHMENT. This being the subject of the three following chapters (chapters 18-20), they naturally form a sequence to chapters 11-17, which have dealt with ce…