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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 2:1-16
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 2:1-3
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 2:1-3
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 2:1-10
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
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 2:3-10
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 2:4-11
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…
Matthew Henry on Leviticus 2:11-16
Here, I. Leaven and honey are forbidden to be put in any of their meat-offerings: No leaven, nor any honey, in any offering made by fire, Leviticus 2:11. 1. The leaven was forbidden in remembrance of the unleavened brea…
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 2:11-13
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…
Matthew Henry on Leviticus 2:12-16
Salt is required in all the offerings. God hereby intimates to them that their sacrifices, in themselves, were unsavoury. All religious services must be seasoned with grace. Christianity is the salt of the earth. Direct…
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 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 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…
Matthew Henry on Leviticus 3:1-5
The peace-offerings had regard to God as the giver of all good things. These were divided between the altar, the priest, and the owner. They were called peace-offering, because in them God and his people did, as it were…
Law of the Peace-Offering. (b. c. 1490.)
LAW OF THE PEACE-OFFERING. (B. C. 1490.) The burnt-offerings had regard to God as in himself the best of beings, most perfect and excellent; they were purely expressive of adoration, and therefore were wholly burnt. But…
Matthew Henry on Leviticus 3:6-17
Here is a law that they should eat neither fat nor blood. As for the fat, it means the fat of the inwards, the suet. The blood was forbidden for the same reason; because it was God's part of every sacrifice. God would n…