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The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 25:35-55
Justice and mercy. The equity of the Mosaic laws has striking illustrations in the words now under review. We see it— I. IN THE KINDNESS ENJOINED TOWARDS THE POOR. 1. Their necessities are to be relieved. 2. The reasons…
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 25:35-55
The law of personal servitude. I. GENERAL PRINCIPLE, love of our neighbour. Servitude admitted in that early stage of the world, but limited and modified, and its extinction provided for in that principle of love and co…
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 25:39-42
We see the way in which a poor Israelite might become a slave in the case of the sons of the widow whose oil was multiplied by Elisha. "Thy servant my husband is dead; (and thou knowest that thy servant did fear the Lor…
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 25:42
Servants of God. The Law contains other than ceremonial regulations. Many of its precepts are moral in the highest degree, and breathe the spirit of purest Christianity. Indeed, the Christian Church, with the relationsh…
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 25:43
Thou shalt not rule over him with rigour; but shalt fear thy God, is paralleled by the New Testament injunction, "And, ye masters, do the same things unto them, forbearing threatening: knowing that your Master also is i…
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 25:44-46
Slavery is not forbidden in respect to non-Israelites. The world was not yet ready for it, as it was not ready in the days of St. Paul.
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 25:47-55
Rules are laid down for the case of an Israelite who has sold himself for a slave to a non-Israelite. In this case he is not set free at the end of six years, as he would be if his master were a countryman, but in other…
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 26:1
Idolatry: our danger and our security. Knowing, as we do, how widespread was the idolatry of the age and how terribly tempted were the children of Israel to fall under its fascination, we do not wonder either at the rep…
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 26:1-46
Temporal rewards and punishments. cf. Ecclesiastes 8:11; Isaiah 48:18; Matthew 5:44, Matthew 5:45; and 1혻Timothy 4:8. There is in this chapter a distinct assertion of moral government exercised over Israel. If they obey…
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 26:1-46
PART V. CONCLUDING EXHORTATION. EXPOSITION THE first two verses of this chapter contain a prohibition of idolatry, and a command to observe the sabbath and to reverence God's sanctuary; that is, they repeat in summary t…
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 26:1
Ye shall make you no idols nor graven image, neither rear you up a standing image, neither shall ye set up any image of stone in your land, to bow down unto it. The word idols (elilim) means the "nothings" which the hea…
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 26:1-13
The blessedness of the righteous. In the words before us we have?? I. THE QUALITIES OF THE RIGHTEOUS DESCRIBED. These are: 1. That they worship the true God. 2. That they worship him truly. 3. They serve him obediently.…
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 26:2
Ye shall keep my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary: I am the Lord. These words are repeated textually from Leviticus 19:30.
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 26:3-39
Promises and threatenings. Leviticus 26:12, "And I will walk among you, and will be your God, and ye shall be my people." I. The true law of human life. 1. Religion the upholding support of individual, social, national…
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 26:3
If ye walk in my statutes. The free will of man is recognized equally with God's controlling power.
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 26:3-46
Promises and threatenings. In this chapter the prophet looks forward, and declares how God would deal with his people; which should be according to the way in which they should act. In 2혻Chronicles 36:14-21, the chronic…
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 26:3-13
Incentives to obedience. Religion has the first claim upon us as the supreme obligation of the soul. We are hound to worship and honour God because we owe far more to him than to all other beings in the universe. The fi…
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 26:3-8
Obedience and prosperity. The connection between godly conduct and material good may not seem to us so close or so clearly discernible as that which is promised in these verses. Still, the heart of the promise remains,…
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 26:4-6
These verses appear to have been in the mind, not of Joel only, as already pointed out, but of Ezekiel (Ezekiel 34:20-31). In Leviticus we find, Then I will give you rain in due season; in Ezekiel, "And I will cause the…
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 26:8
And five of you shall chase an hundred. Cf. Joshua 23:10, "One man of you shall chase a thousand." For examples, see 3:31; 15:15; 1혻Samuel 14:6-16; 2혻Samuel 23:8.
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 26:10
Ye shall eat old store, and bring forth the old because of the new. The provisions of the past year would be so abundant that they would have to be removed to make place for the new stores.
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 26:11
God dwelling amongst men. All possible methods were employed to attach the Israelites to the Law. Solemnity of its promulgation, judgment executed on transgressors, enticing promises and terrifying threats. Chief among…
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 26:11
And I will set my tabernacle among you. This was fulfilled, spiritually, as shown to St. John in his vision of the new Jerusalem: "I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, a…
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 26:12
And I will walk among you, and will be your God, and ye shall be my people. These words are quoted by St. Paul as a ground of the holiness required of God's people (2혻Corinthians 6:16).