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Leviticus 22:1-33
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 22:1-33
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Matthew Henry on Leviticus 22:1-33Leviticus 22:1-33 · Matthew Henry Concise CommentaryIn 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.)Leviticus 22:1-9 · Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole BibleLAWS 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 22:1-9Leviticus 22:1-9 · The Pulpit CommentaryIn 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 22:1-33Leviticus 22:1-33 · The Pulpit CommentaryHoliness 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 22:1-33Leviticus 22:1-33 · The Pulpit CommentaryPriestly 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 22:1-16Leviticus 22:1-16 · The Pulpit CommentaryThe 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…
commentaryMatthew Henry on Leviticus 22:1-33In 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…Matthew HenrycommentaryLaws 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…Matthew HenrycommentaryThe Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 22:1-16The 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…Joseph S. Exell and contributorscommentaryThe Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 22:1-9In 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…Joseph S. Exell and contributorscommentaryThe Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 22:1-33Holiness 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…Joseph S. Exell and contributorscommentaryThe Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 22:1-33Priestly 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…Joseph S. Exell and contributorscommentaryThe Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 22:3The 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…Joseph S. Exell and contributorscommentaryMatthew Henry on Leviticus 22:10-16The 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…Matthew Henry