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Matthew Henry on Leviticus 16:5-14
The Jewish writers say that for seven days before the day of expiation the high priest was to retire from his own house, and to dwell in a chamber of the temple, that he might prepare himself for the service of this gre…
Matthew Henry on Leviticus 16:15-34
Here are typified the two great gospel privileges, of the remission of sin, and access to God, both of which we owe to our Lord Jesus. See the expiation of guilt. Christ is both the Maker and the Matter of the atonement…
Matthew Henry on Leviticus 16:15-19
When the priest had come out from the sprinkling the blood of the bullock before the mercy-seat, 1. He must next kill the goat which was the sin-offering for the people (Leviticus 16:15) and go the third time into the h…
Matthew Henry on Leviticus 16:20-28
The high priest having presented unto the Lord the expiatory sacrifices, by the sprinkling of their blood, the remainder of which, it is probable, he poured out at the foot of the brazen altar, 1. He is next to confess…
Matthew Henry on Leviticus 16:29-34
I. We have here some additional directions in reference to this great solemnity, particularly, 1. The day appointed for this solemnity. It must be observed yearly on the tenth day of the seventh month, Leviticus 16:29.…
Matthew Henry on Leviticus 17:1-9
All the cattle killed by the Israelites, while in the wilderness, were to be presented before the door of the tabernacle, and the flesh to be returned to the offerer, to be eaten as a peace-offering, according to the la…
Directions Concerning Sacrifices. (b. c. 1490.)
DIRECTIONS CONCERNING SACRIFICES. (B. C. 1490.) This statute obliged all the people of Israel to bring all their sacrifices to God's altar, to be offered there. And as to this matter we must consider, I. How it stood be…
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 17:1-9
Sacrifice is not in itself enough; there must be uniformity in the manner in which it is offered, and identity of place in which it is made. The seven first chapters of the Book of Leviticus have given a minute statemen…
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 17:1-9
Sanctity of animal life. All God's people commanded to observe restrictions as to the shedding of blood. Door of the tabernacle connected with the sphere of common life; thus religion and its duty threw sacredness over…
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 17:1-7
Features of Christian service. It is open to question whether the prohibition (Leviticus 17:3, Leviticus 17:4) extends to all animals killed for feed, or only to those slain in sacrifice. The former view is, in my judgm…
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 17:1-16
EXPOSITION This chapter finds its natural place here as the supplement of all that has gone before. The first part of the book contains the institution or regulation of the sacrificial system (chapters 1-7). This chapte…
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 17:1-16
Statutes concerning blood. The sacredness of blood is everywhere marked in Scripture. The chapter before us contains some of the more important statutes concerning it. I. IN RESPECT TO THE BLOOD OF SACRIFICE. 1. It must…
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 17:1-16
Grace before meat. Cf. 1혻Corinthians 10:31. From the perfect atonement God provides, we are invited next to turn to the morality he requires. And no better beginning can be made than the acknowledgment of God in connect…
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 17:1-7
One place of sacrifice. It is of the essence of law to be impartial. Its precepts apply to all without distinction. "Aaron and his sons and all the children of Israel" are here included in the scope of the Divine comman…
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 17:3
What man soever there be of the house of Israel, that killeth an ox, or lamb, or goat. The use of the word killeth, instead of sacrificeth, is one of the chief causes of the error referred to above, which represents thi…
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 17:4
In case a man offers a sacrifice elsewhere than at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation,??blood shall be imputed unto that man; that is, it shall no longer be regarded as a sacrifice at all, but an unjustifiab…
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 17:5
To the end that the children of Israel may bring their sacrifices. This passage tells us the purpose of the previous command: it is to prevent sacrifices being sacrificed (the word is twice used in the original) in the…
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 17:6
The priest, that is, the Levitical priest, is henceforth to sprinkle the blood upon the altar of the Lord ??and burn the fat for a sweet savour, which were the two parts of the sacrifice which were essentially priestly…
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 17:7
And they shall no more offer their sacrifices unto devils, after whom they have gone a whoring. The word rightly translated devils means, literally, shaggy goats (see 2혻Chronicles 11:15; Isaiah 13:21; Isaiah 34:14; wher…
Matthew Henry on Leviticus 17:10-16
Here is a confirmation of the law against eating blood. They must eat no blood. But this law was ceremonial, and is now no longer in force; the coming of the substance does away the shadow. The blood of beasts is no lon…
The Eating of Blood Forbidden. (b. c. 1490.)
THE EATING OF BLOOD FORBIDDEN. (B. C. 1490.) We have here, I. A repetition and confirmation of the law against eating blood. We have met with this prohibition twice before in the levitical law (Leviticus 3:17), besides…
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 17:10-16
Atoning death. We have here a repetition of a law which had already been twice delivered (Leviticus 3:17; Leviticus 7:23-26). Its full and formal restatement is very significant, and this the more because of the emphati…
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 17:10-13
The eating of blood is strictly prohibited; Therefore our Lord's words must have sounded so much the more strange in the ears of the Jews, when he said, "Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, y…
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 17:10-16
Leviticus 17:11, "The life of the flesh is in the blood: and I have given it to you upon the altar to make an atonement for your souls: for it is the blood that maketh an atonement for the soul." I. THE NATURAL BASIS OF…