Ye shall therefore keep my statutes, and my judgments: which if a man do, he shall live in them: I [am] the LORD.
Ver. 5. He shall live in them.] As the flame lives in the oil, as the creature by his food, so the spiritual life is maintained by an evangelical keeping of God's commandments. As on the contrary, every motion of the soul out of this way, tends to death; being as the motion of the fish out of his element.
If a man keeps the “statutes” (i. e. the ordinances of Leviticus 18:4) and “judgments” of the divine law, he shall not be “cut off from his people” (compare Leviticus 18:29), he shall gain true life,...
V. PRACTICAL HOLINESS IN DAILY LIFE 1. Different Unholy Relationships CHAPTER 18 _ 1. Separation and obedience (Leviticus 18:1)_ 2. Unholy relationships (Leviticus 18:6) 3. Vile and abominable pr...
GENERAL WARNING AGAINST CONFORMITY TO INDIGENOUS PRACTICES. The phrase I am Yahweh is characteristic of Ezek. and H, occurring twenty-one times in Leviticus 18-20. If a command is understood as coming...
WHICH, &C.. "which, if the man (Hebrew. _'adam,_ App-14) shall do them, he shall also live by them". LIVE. "live again" in resurrection life (Revelation 20:6). The Chaldee paraphrase. "shall live by t...
Laws dealing with various Moral Subjects These three chs. contain features common to two or all three of them, which are found nowhere else in the Pentateuch. Such are (1) a collection of laws combin...
_I am the Lord_ For the significance of this often repeated expression, see pp. xlviii f....
WHICH IF A MAN DO, HE SHALL LIVE IN THEM— That the primary sense of these words refers to that temporal life and prosperity which God promised to the Jews as the consequence of their obedience, there...
HOLINESS IN THE MARRIAGE RELATIONSHIP 18:1-30 IMPRESSIVE INTRODUCTION TO THE SUBJECT 18:1-5 TEXT 18:1-5 1 And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying, 2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto th...
_YE SHALL THEREFORE KEEP MY STATUTES, AND MY JUDGMENTS: WHICH IF A MAN DO, HE SHALL LIVE IN THEM: I AM THE LORD._ Which if a man do, he shall live in them. A special blessing was promised to the Isra...
LAW OF FORBIDDEN DEGREES OF MARRIAGE, AND OF CHASTITY 3. Some of the unions here forbidden as incestuous were permitted among the nations of antiquity. The early Egyptians, e.g. permitted marriage wit...
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...
YE SHALL THEREFORE KEEP MY STATUTES. Better, _and ye shall keep my ordinances._ The word here rendered by “statutes” is the same which the Authorised Version translates _ordinances_ in Leviticus 18:3....
וּ שְׁמַרְתֶּ֤ם אֶת ־חֻקֹּתַי֙ וְ אֶת ־מִשְׁפ
THE LAW OF HOLINESS: CHASTITY Leviticus 18:1 Chapter S 18, 19, and 20, by a formal introduction Leviticus 18:1 and a formal closing, Leviticus 20:22 are indicated as a distinct section, very commonly...
At this point in the enunciation of the laws of separation they assume a slightly altered character. So far, the fundamental matters of relationships to God have been the principal note. Now the habit...
Ye shall therefore keep my statutes, and my judgments: which if a man do, he shall live in them: (b) I [am] the LORD. (b) And therefore you ought to serve me alone, as my people....
_Live in them, a long and happy life, (Chaldean) attended with grace and glory. (Lyranus) --- Jesus Christ and St. Paul explain it of eternal life. (Matthew xix. 17; Romans x. 5.) (Calmet)_...
How David speaks of his love to the LORD'S judgments, Psalms 119:1 throughout! But, Reader, did not these statutes, judgments, testimonies, etc. (which as far as I recollect are mentioned, under one t...
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...
5._Ye shall therefore keep my statutes_. Although Moses introduces this passage, where he exhorts the Israelites to cultivate chastity in respect to marriage, and not to fall into the incestuous pollu...
Chapter 18 keeps them from dishonouring themselves in the things which belong to nature itself-to what man ought to be in his natural relations, that he might not dishonour himself. Man ought not to d...
YE SHALL THEREFORE KEEP MY STATUTES, AND MY JUDGMENTS,.... The same as before; these they were to keep in their minds and memories, and to observe them and do them: WHICH IF A MAN DO HE SHALL LIVE IN...
_He shall live in them_ Not only happily here, but eternally hereafter. This is added as a powerful argument why they should follow God's commands rather than men's examples, because their life and ha...
[VNLAWFULL MARRIAGES.] 1 Vnlawfull Marriages. 19 Vnlawfull lusts. 1 AND the LORD spake vnto Moses, saying, 2 Speake vnto the children of Israel, and say vnto them, I am the LORD your God. 3 After...
UNLAWFUL MARRIAGES...
Ye shall therefore keep My statutes and My judgments, both those precepts which concerned them only, as the people of the Lord in a peculiar sense, and the ordinances which were natural laws, and whic...
FORBIDDING SEXUAL SINS (VV. 1-30) Chapter 17 has dealt with sin directly against God; now chapter 18 speaks of sin in relationship with other creatures, primarily humans, but also animals (v. 23). Mos...
HE SHALL LIVE IN THEM; not only happily here, but also eternally hereafter, as it is expounded MATTHEW 19:17 ROMANS 10:5. This is added as a powerful argument why they should follow God's commands rat...
LEVITICUS 20:1-27. This section sets before us, in a very remarkable manner, the personal sanctity and moral propriety which Jehovah looked for, on the part of those whom He had graciously introduced...
Leviticus 18:5 keep H8104 (H8804) statutes H2708 judgments H4941 which H834 man H120 does H6213 (H8799) live...
THE COMMAND TO OBEY YAHWEH THEIR GOD WHOSE COMMANDS BRING LIFE (LEVITICUS 18:2). Leviticus 18:2 “Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them, I am Yahweh your God.” What follows very much has...
CONTENTS: Relationship and walk of God's people. CHARACTERS: God, Moses. CONCLUSION: Fleshly lusts war against the soul and will certainly be the ruin of it, if God's mercy and grace prevent not. K...
Leviticus 18:21. _Molech,_ or Moloch, was the chief idol of the Sabians, and of the Ammonites. 1 Kings 11:7; 1 Kings 11:33. To this idol Solomon built a high place on mount Olivet. The form of the ido...
_Ye shall do My judgments _ SAFETY IN THE OBSERVANCE OF GOD’S LAWS This preface of some is taken generally to concern all the laws of God; the observation whereof is ever the sure safety of a state p...
LEVITICUS—NOTE ON LEVITICUS 18:1 The Call to Holiness. This section applies the principle of holiness (Leviticus 19:1) to various aspects of Israelite life. Chapte
LEVITICUS—NOTE ON LEVITICUS 18:5 IF A PERSON DOES THEM, HE SHALL LIVE BY THEM. The person who responds rightly to God’s grace (“does”) will enjoy life under God’s pleasure (“shall live”). Compare...
Incestuous Marriages: Domestic Purity SUGGESTIVE READINGS Leviticus 18:2.—Speak unto them and say, I am the Lord your God. Jehovah is the sole lawgiver, His word the one law to His people: ungodly cu...
PART III. SECTION III. EXPOSITION MORAL UNCLEANNESS AND ITS PUNISHMENT. This being the subject of the three following chapters (chapters 18-20), they naturally form a sequence to chapters 11-17, whic...
Here we find the term used over and over again, "For I am the Lord your God." So God wants a holy people. He tells them how they are to walk with them. "For I am the Lord your God", and actually layin...
Exodus 6:2; Exodus 6:29; Exodus 6:6; Ezekiel 20:11; Ezekiel 20:13;...
He shall live in them — Not only happily here, but eternally hereafter. This is added as a powerful argument why they should follow God's commands, rather than mens examples, because their life and ha...