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The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 21:16-24
Unblemished service. We gain three truths from these verses. I. THE PRIMARY TRUTH, INTENDED FOR THE HEBREW NATION. The special instruction contained in this passage is that the altar of God was to be honoured in every p…
Matthew Henry on Leviticus 22:1-33
In this chapter we have divers laws concerning the priests and sacrifices, all for preserving the honour of the sanctuary. Let us recollect with gratitude that our great High Priest cannot be hindered by any thing from…
Laws Concerning the Priests. (b. c. 1490.)
LAWS CONCERNING THE PRIESTS. (B. C. 1490.) Those that had a natural blemish, though they were forbidden to do the priests' work, were yet allowed to eat of the holy things: and the Jewish writers say that "to keep them…
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 22:1-33
Holiness of priests and sacrifices. While much that appertained only to a temporary dispensation, still great principles included in the formal regulations, as?? I. RELIGION SANCTIFIES, preserves, and perfects the whole…
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 22:1-33
Priestly disqualifications. cf. Matthew 25:31-46. We saw that inherited infirmity, such as is mentioned in Matthew 25:18-21 of last chapter, while it excludes from office, does not exclude from sustenance. We now come a…
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 22:1-16
The eating of the holy things. We have seen, in the preceding chapter, that blemishes which precluded a priest from ministering at the altar did not hinder him from eating of the holy things. The ordinary Israelite, the…
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 22:1-33
EXPOSITION This chapter, which is a continuation of Leviticus 21:1-24,
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 22:1-9
In the previous chapter, the priests have been commanded to avoid occasions of ceremonial defilement, but there are times in which they must be unclean. At these times they are here instructed that they must abstain fro…
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 22:3
The service of abstention. There were certain bodily conditions which, under the Levitical institutions, were suggestive of spiritual impurity, and those who suffered from them were accounted ceremonially unclean. Pries…
Matthew Henry on Leviticus 22:10-16
The holy things were to be eaten by the priests and their families. Now, I. Here is a law that no stranger should eat of them, that is, no person whatsoever but the priests only, and those that pertained to them, Leviti…
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 22:10-13
The previous paragraph having forbidden the priests to eat of the holy things while in a state of ceremonial uncleanness, naturally leads to the question, who has the right of eating them? The answer is, the priest's fa…
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 22:10-15
The guilt of profanation. That which had been offered in sacrifice was "holy unto the Lord;" these were "holy things" (Leviticus 22:10); "I the Lord do sanctify them" (Leviticus 22:16). They might only be partaken of by…
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 22:14
As the sacrificial meals made a part of the stipends of the priestly body, any one who inadvertently took a share in them by eating of the holy thing unwittingly, when he had no right to do so, had to refund the value o…
Laws Concerning Sacrifices. (b. c. 1490.)
LAWS CONCERNING SACRIFICES. (B. C. 1490.) Here are four laws concerning sacrifices:— I. Whatever was offered in sacrifice to God should be without blemish, otherwise it should not be accepted. This had often been mentio…
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 22:17-25
Just as the priests who offer to the Lord are to be ceremonially and morally holy, so the animals offered to him are to be physically perfect, in order Whatsoever hath a blemish, that shall ye not offer. The list of ble…
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 22:17-30
Characteristics of acceptable service. The very fact that all the points here referred to have been fully brought out before lends strong emphasis to them as matters of vital importance in the estimation of God. If our…
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 22:17-25
The perfection demanded in the sacrificial victims contains a typical, a symbolical, and a moral lesson. I. THEY MUST BE PERFECT, THAT THEY MAY BE TYPES OF CHRIST. The perfect Victim must not be represented by anything…
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 22:17-33
Laws of the oblations. These naturally follow those concerning the priests, which form the subject of the earlier portion of this chapter. They may be considered?? I. WITH RESPECT TO THE SACRIFICES. 1. These must be the…
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 22:28
A lesson of charity is added. A young animal and its mother are not to be killed (though reference is specially made to sacrifice, the general word, not the sacrificial term, for slaying is used) on the same day, just a…
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 22:31-33
These verses form the conclusion of the Section and of the Part, enjoining obedience to God's commandments, reverence for his Name, and consequent holiness. HOMILETICS
Matthew Henry on Leviticus 23:1-3
In this chapter we have the institution of holy times; many of which have been mentioned before. Though the yearly feasts were made more remarkable by general attendance at the sanctuary, yet these must not be observed…
Sundry Feasts. (b. c. 1490.)
SUNDRY FEASTS. (B. C. 1490.) Here is, I. A general account of the holy times which God appointed (Leviticus 23:2), and it is only his appointment that can make time holy; for he is the Lord of time, and as soon as ever…
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 23:1-5
PART IV. HOLY DAYS AND SEASONS: WEEKLY, MONTHLY, ANNUAL, SEPTENNIAL, AND EVERY HALF-CENTURY. EXPOSITION THIS Part consists of Leviticus 23:1-44, and Leviticus 25:1-55, with Leviticus 24:1-23 parenthetically introduced.…
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 23:1-3
The offering of rest: the sabbath. cf. Genesis 2:2, Genesis 2:3; Exodus 16:22; Exodus 20:8-11; Mark 2:23-28; Revelation 1:10. In the sacrificial worship we come across what is essentially different as an offering from t…