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The Pulpit Commentary on Numbers 15:30-32
THE LAW OF THE SABBATH: A SOLEMN VINDICATION I. THIS DOOM OF DEATH SHOWS THE IMPORTANCE OF THE SABBATH IN THE SIGHT OF GOD. 1. There was need of something special to call attention to this point. Those commandments whic…
The Pulpit Commentary on Numbers 15:31
His iniquity … upon him. עַוֹנָה בָהּ, "its crime upon it," i.e; the sin of that soul must come upon it in punishment. HOMILETICS
The Pulpit Commentary on Numbers 15:32-36
EXPOSITION THE SABBATH-BREAKER (Numbers 15:32-36).
The Pulpit Commentary on Numbers 15:32
And while the children of Israel were in the wilderness. It is maintained by some that these words were intended to mark the contrast between the previous laws, which were only to be observed when the people came into t…
The Pulpit Commentary on Numbers 15:32-36
THE SABBATH OF GOD We have here a record which is both valuable in itself as revealing the mind of God, and also valuable indirectly as revealing the mind of man. The perversity of human nature, and the extreme subtlene…
The Pulpit Commentary on Numbers 15:33
Unto all the congregation, i.e; unto the council of elders, who were the congregation by representation (see on Exodus 18:25, Exodus 18:26).
The Pulpit Commentary on Numbers 15:34
They put him in ward, (cf. Le Numbers 24:12), because it was not declared what should be done to him. This is perplexing, because the punishment of death had been decreed in Exodus 31:14, Exodus 31:15, and Exodus 35:2.…
The Pulpit Commentary on Numbers 15:35
Without the camp. That it might not be defiled (cf. Acts 7:58, and Hebrews 13:12).
The Pulpit Commentary on Numbers 15:36
And he died. He was killed not for what he did, but for doing it presumptuously, in deliberate defiance of what he knew to be the will of God. If the covenant relation was to be maintained between God and Israel, the ob…
The Pulpit Commentary on Numbers 15:37-41
THE USE AND ABUSE OF MEMORIALS This law is one of the many illustrations of the minute particulars prescribed by the laws of Moses. We find other illustrations in precepts respecting ploughing (Deuteronomy 22:10), sowin…
The Pulpit Commentary on Numbers 15:37-41
EXPOSITION THE LAW OF TASSELS (Numbers 15:37-41).
The Pulpit Commentary on Numbers 15:37-41
A DISTINGUISHING MARK OF THE FAITHFUL In the ordinance of the tassels we have at once the height and depth of the old dispensation—the most trivial of outward observances married to the deepest truths and greatest bless…
The Pulpit Commentary on Numbers 15:37-40
THE FRINGES: EVER-PRESENT REMINDERS I. A NEED TO BE PROVIDED FOR. These numerous and all-important commandments must, if such a thing is possible, be kept continually before the minds of the people. God has already prov…
The Pulpit Commentary on Numbers 15:38
Bid them that they make them fringes. צִיצִת, probably tassels. It seems to signify something flower-like and bright, like the blooms on a shrub; the word צִיץ. is applied to the shining plate of gold upon Aaron's head-…
The Pulpit Commentary on Numbers 15:39
That ye may look upon it, and remember all the commandments. It was indeed a minute and apparently trivial distinction, and yet such an one as would most surely strike the eye, and through the eye the mind. It was like…
The Pulpit Commentary on Numbers 15:41
I am the Lord your God. This intensely solemn formula, here twice repeated, may serve to show how intimately the smallest observances of the Law were connected with the profoundest and most comforting of spiritual truth…
The Pulpit Commentary on Numbers 15:41
GOD RECALLS A GREAT DEED AND THE PURPOSE OF IT I. GOD RECALLED A GREAT DEED. I brought you out of the land of Egypt."‘ 1. It was deliverance from a bitter bondage. The Israelites had been making light of it of late, but…
The Pulpit Commentary on Numbers 17:1-13
THE SIGN OF THE TRUE PRIESTHOOD In this chapter we have the testimony of God to the priesthood of his Anointed in a σημεῖον, a teaching miracle, setting forth the inner and hidden truths upon which the exclusive claims…
The Pulpit Commentary on Numbers 17:1
And the Lord spake. Presumably upon the same day, since the design was to prevent any recurrence of the sin and punishment described above.
The Pulpit Commentary on Numbers 17:1-13
EXPOSITION AARON'S ROD THAT BUDDED (Numbers 17:1-13).
The Pulpit Commentary on Numbers 17:1-9
AARON'S ROD THAT BUDDED The priesthood of Aaron, as a solemn reality, and no mere arrogant pretence, had already been amply shown. It had been shown, however, in a way which left behind terrible associations. Those who…
The Pulpit Commentary on Numbers 17:2
Take of every one of them a rod. Literally, "take of them a rod, a rod," i.e; a rod apiece, in the way immediately particularized. hsilgnE:egaugnaL מַטֶּה} is used for the staff of Judah (Genesis 38:18) and for the rod…
The Pulpit Commentary on Numbers 17:3
Thou shalt write Aaron's name upon the rod of Levi. There was no tribe prince of Levi, and it is not probable that either of the three chiefs of the sub-tribes (Numbers 3:24, Numbers 3:30, 55) was called upon to bring a…
The Pulpit Commentary on Numbers 17:4
The tabernacle of the congregation. "The tent of meeting." See on Exodus 30:26. Before the testimony, i.e; in front of the ark containing the two tables of the law (Exodus 25:21).