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The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 23:22
When ye reap the harvest of your land. The legislator pauses in his enunciation of the festivals to add the rule of charity, already laid down in the nineteenth chapter, as to leaving the gleanings unto the poor, and to…
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 23:23-25
In the seventh month, in the first day of the month. Only one of the monthly festivals is named in this chapter, because it is the only one on which a holy convocation was to be held. The first day of the seventh month…
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 23:23-25
In the seventh month, in the first day of the month. Only one of the monthly festivals is named in this chapter, because it is the only one on which a holy convocation was to be held. The first day of the seventh month…
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 23:23-25
The Feast of Trumpets. cf. Numbers 10:1-10; Exodus 19:19; Psalms 89:15. The first mention of the trumpet is in Exodus 19:13, Exodus 19:19, in connection with the giving of the Law. "When the trumpet soundeth long, they…
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 23:23-44
The hebdomad. Seven in Scripture is a very remarkable number. In the text it is repeated in so many forms that it forces itself upon our attention. I. HEBDOMADS ARE CONSPICUOUS IN THE CHRONOLOGY OF THE LAW. 1. They appe…
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 23:23-25
The Feast of Trumpets. "The Old Testament," says Augustine, "when rightly understood, is one grand prophecy of the New." The New Testament is the key to the Old. I. THE MOON WAS A SYMBOL OF THE CHURCH. 1. Its luster set…
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 23:23-25
The Feast of Trumpets. "A sabbath, a memorial, a holy convocation." Probably recalling the giving of the Law from Mount Sinai. Therefore typical of the proclamation of the gospel, which is the new law of love. I. The pe…
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 23:26-32
The great Day of Atonement (see on Le Leviticus 16:29-34).—R.
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 23:26-32
The Feast of Expiation. This great occasion, the ceremonies of which are more particularly described in Leviticus 16:1-34, was to be— I. A HOLY CONVOCATION, IN WHICH THE PEOPLE WERE TO AFFLICT THEIR SOULS. Learn hence:…
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 23:26-32
The ceremonies to be observed on the day of atonement have been already described in Leviticus 16:1-34, where it found its place as the great purification of the people and of the sanctuary. Here it is reintroduced as o…
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 23:26-32
The annual repentance-the Day of Atonement. cf. Leviticus 16:1-34; Hebrews 9:12. Into the ritual of the Day of Atonement we need not here enter, after what has been said on the subject under chapter 16. But the referenc…
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 23:26-32
The ceremonies to be observed on the day of atonement have been already described in Leviticus 16:1-34, where it found its place as the great purification of the people and of the sanctuary. Here it is reintroduced as o…
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 23:33-44
The Feast of Tabernacles. This was the last of the great annual festivals of the Hebrews. It was a season of great joyfulness. Let us notice— I. THE REASONS OF ITS APPOINTMENT. 1. It was to assure them of God's return t…
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 23:33-43
The pilgrim spirit as illustrated in the Feast of Tabernacles. cf. Psalms 39:12; Hebrews 11:13; 1 Peter 2:11. The seventh month was a very celebrated one in the Jewish year. It was the sabbatic month, so to speak, when…
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 23:33-36
The third of the great festivals, the Feast of Tabernacles—beginning on the 15th of Tisri, as the Feast of Unleavened Bread began on the 15th of Nisan—lasted seven days, and was followed by an octave; on two days, the f…
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 23:33-43
Joy before the Lord. The idea that, under the ancient Law, Israel was a peculiarly severe and gloomy nation, is essentially false. Gravity rather than light-heartedness may indeed have characterized them: they may have…
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 23:33-36
The third of the great festivals, the Feast of Tabernacles—beginning on the 15th of Tisri, as the Feast of Unleavened Bread began on the 15th of Nisan—lasted seven days, and was followed by an octave; on two days, the f…
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 23:33-44
The Feast of Tabernacles (cf. Nehemiah 8:17; Zechariah 14:16). I. PRAISE FOR ACCOMPLISHED REDEMPTION AND THE BOUNTEOUS GIFTS OF PROVIDENCE. Reminiscences of the wilderness life. Fact that Israel neglected the feast from…
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 23:39-44
A further instruction respecting the Feast of Tabernacles is appended. When ye have gathered in the fruit of the land, not necessarily at the completion of the ingathering, but at the time at which the festival is held,…
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 23:39-44
A further instruction respecting the Feast of Tabernacles is appended. When ye have gathered in the fruit of the land, not necessarily at the completion of the ingathering, but at the time at which the festival is held,…
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 23:40-43
The Feast of Tabernacles. There were three great festivals for the Israelites, the dates for which were plainly marked, and at which times it behooved the males of the nation as far as possible to be present at the sanc…
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 24:1-9
EXPOSITION A connection between Leviticus 23:1-44, and Le Leviticus 24:1-9 is found by Keil in the fact that the oil for the holy lamps and the shewbread were offerings of the people, a sacrificial gift with which Israe…
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 24:1-4
The ordinance on the lamps contained in the first three verses is repeated from Exodus 27:20. The oil to be used for the lamps was to be pure oil olive, that is, oil made of picked berries, without any intermixture of d…
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 24:1-9
The lamps of the seven-branched candlestick burnt throughout the whole night in the tabernacle; and the shewbread was constantly set forth upon the golden table. They may be taken to symbolize: 1. The constant illuminat…