George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
Leviticus 24:14
Head. To testify, that if they witness falsehood, they are willing to suffer the like punishment; and to beg that God would accept this victim, and not afflict all his people. (Tirinus)
Head. To testify, that if they witness falsehood, they are willing to suffer the like punishment; and to beg that God would accept this victim, and not afflict all his people. (Tirinus)
Verse Leviticus 24:14. _LAY THEIR HANDS UPON HIS HEAD_] It was by this ceremony that the people who heard him curse bore their public testimony in order to his being fully convicted, for without this...
LAY THEIR HANDS UPON HIS HEAD - As a protest against the impiety of the criminal, symbolically laying the guilt upon his head. Compare the washing of hands, Deuteronomy 21:6; Matthew 27:24. LET ALL TH...
3. BLASPHEMY AND ISRAEL'S SIN FORESHADOWED CHAPTER 24:10-23 _ 1. The blasphemy (Leviticus 24:10)_ 2. The penalty executed (Leviticus 24:23) The blasphemer who blasphemed the Name and cursed, foresh...
LEVITICUS 24:10; LEVITICUS 24:23. The punishment for blasphemy connected, as in Leviticus 10:1 and Sabbath breaking, with an actual example. Language and literary manner suggest that the section is la...
LAY THEIR HANDS UPON. Done only in the case of. blasphemer. STONE HIM. Nine persons stoned (see App-10): The blasphemer, Leviticus 24:14. The sabbath-breaker, Numbers 15:36. Achan, Joshua 7:25. Abimel...
Incident of the blasphemer, and laws arising out of that occurrence or suggested by it. This section closely resembles Numbers 15:32-36, which relates the punishment of the man found gathering sticks...
_let all that heard him lay their hands upon his head_ Cp. the inclusion of the witnesses in the account of the stoning of St Stephen (Acts 7:58)....
DISCOURSE: 140 THE BLASPHEMER STONED Leviticus 24:13. _And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, Bring forth him that hath cursed without the camp; and let all that heard him lay their hands upon his he...
BRING FORTH HIM THAT HATH CURSED, WITHOUT THE CAMP, &C.— 1st, This was the custom in relation to accursed persons, and such as devoted themselves to destruction. Thus it was that _Joshua took Achan—an...
3. HISTORICAL: THE PUNISHMENT OF A BLASPHEMER 24:10-23 TEXT 24:10-23 10 And the son of an Israelitish woman, whose father was an Egyptian, went out among the children of Israel; and the son of the I...
_BRING FORTH HIM THAT HATH CURSED WITHOUT THE CAMP; AND LET ALL THAT HEARD HIM LAY THEIR HANDS UPON HIS HEAD, AND LET ALL THE CONGREGATION STONE HIM._ Bring forth him ... without the camp. All execut...
LAY THEIR HANDS] devoting him to death and solemnly dissociating themselves from complicity in his guilt: cp. Deuteronomy 17:7....
OIL FOR THE LAMPS. THE SHEWBREAD. LAWS ON BLASPHEMY 1-4. Oil for the Lamps in the Tabernacle. On the construction of the Lampstand see Exodus 25:31, and with the present passage cp. Exodus 27:20 and...
LEVITICUS *WORSHIP THE *LORD IN THE BEAUTY OF *HOLINESS LEVITICUS _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ This commentary HAS BEEN through Advanced Checking. Words in boxes are from the Bible, except for the words i...
BRING FORTH HIM THAT HATH CURSED. — The sentence which God now passes upon the blasphemer is that he should be conducted from prison outside the camp, where all unclean persons had to abide (Numbers 5...
הֹוצֵ֣א אֶת ־הַֽ מְקַלֵּ֗ל אֶל ־מִ חוּץ֙
THE HOLY LIGHT AND THE SHEW BREAD: THE BLASPHEMER'S END Leviticus 24:1 IT is not easy to determine with confidence the association of thought which occasioned the interposition of this chapter, with...
THE PENALTY OF BLASPHEMY Leviticus 24:10 "And the son of an Israelitish woman, whose father was an Egyptian, went out among the children of Israel: and the son of the Israelitish woman and a man of I...
LIGHT AND BREAD AND THE HOLY NAME Leviticus 24:1 The words “Before the Lord” are twice repeated in the opening paragraph. The pure lamplight, emblematic of the influence of a religious life; and the...
As this chapter is read, it seems at first to be out of place or out of order. Yet undoubtedly it is not so. The fact that we may not be able clearly to see the connection does not warrant its omissio...
That all the congregation should engage in the punishment was no doubt meant to convey the idea how dreadful the sin was. And moreover, it tended, under divine grace, to keep others from such daring p...
We have seen the various forms of the work of Christ, of His offering of Himself to God, whether in all the perfectness of His life, or in His death as the means of our acceptance. We have seen furthe...
The remaining Chapter s of this book appear to me to have a special bearing. The Spirit of God has presented, in chapter 23, the history of the ways of God towards His people upon earth from beginning...
BRING FORTH HIM THAT HATH CURSED WITHOUT THE CAMP,.... To show that he had no part nor lot in Israel, and that he was unworthy to be a member of their civil community, or of their church state; and, b...
Bring forth him that hath cursed without the camp; and let all that heard [him] lay their hands upon his head, and let all the congregation stone him. Ver. 14. _And let all that heard him._] The Jews...
_Lay their hands upon his head_ Whereby they gave public testimony that they heard this person speak such words, and did in their own and all the people's names demand justice to be executed upon him,...
1 The oyle for the lampes. 5 The Shewbread. 10 Shelomiths sonne blasphemeth. 13 The Law of Blasphemie. 17 Of Murther. 18 Of Damage. 23 The blasphemer is stoned. [THE SHEWBREAD.] 1 AND the LORD...
Bring forth him that hath cursed without the camp; and let all that heard him lay their hands upon his head, thereby ridding themselves of all complicity in the guilt which might have rested upon them...
A BLASPHEMER STONED...
CONTINUAL LIGHT (VV. 1-4) Here Moses is told to command the children of Israel that they bring pure olive oil for the seven lamps, never allowing the supply of oil to lapse, so that the lamps would bu...
10-23 This offender was the son of an Egyptian father, and an Israelitish mother. The notice of his parents shows the common ill effect of mixed marriages. A standing law for the stoning of blaspheme...
By LAYING THEIR HANDS UPON HIS HEAD they gave public testimony that they heard this person speak such words, and did in their own and in all the people's names desire and demand justice to be executed...
There is very much to interest the spiritual mind in this brief section. We have seen in chapter 23. the history of the dealings of God with Israel, from the offering up of the Pascal Lamb, until the...
BLASPHEMY AGAINST THE NAME (LEVITICUS 24:10). In the midst of all the ritual instructions in the first part of the book came the practical example as a warning of the sons of Aaron who offered strange...
CONTENTS: Penalty of blasphemy. CHARACTERS: God, Moses, son of Israelitish woman. CONCLUSION: If those who profane the name of God escape punishment from men, yet the Lord our God will not suffer th...
Leviticus 24:2. _Cause the lamps to burn continually._ The heathens also had lamps in their temples. In France it is amusing to see a dim light glimmering through the church windows; and truly it is h...
_Blasphemed the name of the Lord._ BLASPHEMING AGAINST GOD’S HOLY NAME “Swearing is a sin that hath more malignancy in it against God, by how much the less is the temptation to it,” says Burroughs; a...
LEVITICUS—NOTE ON LEVITICUS 24:10__ These verses are an example of the laws in Israel that arose in response to specific situations. ⇐...
LEVITICUS—NOTE ON LEVITICUS 24:13 LET ALL WHO HEARD HIM LAY THEIR HANDS ON HIS HEAD. This may have been done to pass onto the one who cursed the guilt of all who had heard his curse and had thus becom...
Sanctuary Light; The Shewbread; Blasphemy Punished SUGGESTIVE READINGS Leviticus 24:1.—Cause the lamps to burn continually. There is a Light whose radiance never dims, whose glow never pales—self-lum...
EXPOSITION The reason why the narrative of the blasphemer's death (Leviticus 24:10-3) is introduced in its present connection, is simply that it took place at the point of time which followed the prom...
Now the beginning of chapter twenty-four, God commands them to bring olive oil so that they might keep the lamps burning continually in the tabernacle. Then God explains the shew bread. He gives the f...
Acts 7:58; Acts 7:59; Deuteronomy 13:10; Deuteronomy 13:9; Deute
Lay their hands upon his head — Whereby they gave public testimony that they heard this person speak such words, and did in their own and all the peoples names, demand justice to be executed upon him,...