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The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 7:1-38
Ministerial support. cf. 1 Corinthians 9:13; 1 Corinthians 10:18. We have in this chapter a detailed account of the disposal of the offerings already referred to. The leading idea of the passage is the perquisites of th…
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 7:1-6
Further ritual of the trespass offering (see note on Le Leviticus 5:14). It is to be noted that the blood of the trespass offering is not to be placed on the horns of the altar, as was the rule in the ordinary sin offer…
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 7:1-10
The trespass offering, burnt offering, and meat offering, affording support to the minister of the sanctuary and occasion for feasting. I. It is the intent of true religion that those consecrated to its service should b…
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 7:1-10
Emphatic truths orthings God lays stress upon. The great particularity and the occasional repetition shown in these ordinances point to the truth that God desired his people to attach very great weight to them. His serv…
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 7:1-8
The law of the trespass offering. This, like the other offerings, was generally considered before (see Leviticus 5:1-19 and Leviticus 6:1-7). The repetition here, according to Hebrew usage, gives emphasis and solemnity…
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 7:7-10
contain a general precept or note as to the priests' portion in the sin offering, trespass offering, burnt offering, and meat offering. The officiating priest was to have the flesh of the trespass offering and of the si…
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 7:9-15
The peace offering of thanksgiving. At the conclusion of the instructions concerning the trespass offering, we have a few directions concerning the meat offering (Leviticus 7:9, Leviticus 7:10). Whatever of it was dress…
Matthew Henry on Leviticus 7:11-27
As to the peace-offerings, in the expression of their sense of mercy, God left them more at liberty, than in the expression of their sense of sin; that their sacrifices, being free-will offerings, might be the more acce…
Law of the Peace-Offering. (b. c. 1490.)
LAW OF THE PEACE-OFFERING. (B. C. 1490.) All this relates to the peace-offerings: it is the repetition and explication of what we had before, with various additions. I. The nature and intention of the peace-offerings ar…
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 7:11-21
The peace offerings and thank offerings. The unleavened bread and the leavened bread, both offered. The offerings must be quickly eaten, and all uncleanness must be avoided as iniquity. Thus are taught— I. THE DUTY OF T…
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 7:11-21
Further ritual of the peace offering (see note on Leviticus 3:1). There are three sorts of peace offerings—thank offerings (Leviticus 7:12-15), votive offerings, and voluntary offerings (Leviticus 7:16-18). Of these, th…
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 7:13
Leavened bread was not to be offered on the altar, for a reason before assigned; but, though not offered on the altar, it may yet be consecrated to God, not by burning, but by heaving. Thus there are lives which cannot…
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 7:15-18
Fidelity to precept enforced The peace offering was essentially a tribute of gratitude and praise, it was especially suited to national festivities and family rejoicings. Cakes and bread accompanied the flesh of the sac…
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 7:15-17
Three features of acceptable service. We have commanded or suggested here— I. CAREFUL PRESERVATION OF PURITY. The "flesh of the sacrifice of his peace offering" was to be eaten on the very day of its presentation (Levit…
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 7:16-27
The sanctity of the service of God. The peace offering may be offered for thanksgiving, in which case it has appropriate ceremonies (Leviticus 7:12-15). There is also the peace offering of a vow, the ceremonies of which…
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 7:19
That which is itself unclean makes whatever it touches unclean also. So in the moral sphere, "evil communications corrupt good manners" (1 Corinthians 15:33), and "a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump" (1 Corinthian…
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 7:22-27
Repetition of the prohibition of eating the fat and the blood, addressed to the people in the midst of the instructions to the priests. Ye shall eat no manner of fat must be taken to mean none of the fat already specifi…
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 7:22-27
Instructions for the people on the fat and on the blood. The prohibition of fat was to secure the rights of Jehovah from invasion. The fat was a gift sanctified to God. The prohibition of the blood was to keep up the id…
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 7:25
To eat of the fat of which men offer an offering made with fire unto the Lord, is to rob God of his chosen offering. The injunction condemns sacrilege in all its forms. Whoever takes to his own use things dedicated to G…
Matthew Henry on Leviticus 7:28-34
The priest who offered, was to have the breast and the right shoulder. When the sacrifice was killed, the offerer himself must present God's part of it; that he might signify his cheerfully giving it up to God. He was w…
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 7:28-38
The wave breast and the heave shoulder given to the priests. God's share and his ministers' share must be both fully given and carefully set aside and publicly offered up. Generous support of the sanctuary. I. SERVICE O…
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 7:28-38
The service of the oblation. In the service of the oblation of the peace offering there are two actors, viz. the offerer and the priest. These had their respective duties, which are severally brought under our notice in…
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 7:28-34
Continuation of the ritual of the peace offerings (see note on Le Leviticus 3:1). The equal dignity of the peace offerings with the other offerings is vindicated by the command that the offerer shall bring it with his o…
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 7:29-34
The threefold participation. In the case of the peace offerings, there was a recognition of rights due to God, to his priests, and to the people presenting the victims. I. THE PORTION RESERVED FOR GOD. The fat parts and…