Leviticus 20:2
The people — Here follow the punishments of the crimes forbidden in the former chapters.... [ Continue Reading ]
The people — Here follow the punishments of the crimes forbidden in the former chapters.... [ Continue Reading ]
I will set my face against that man — Deal with him as an enemy, and make him a monument of my justice. To defile my sanctuary — Because the sanctuary was defiled by gross abominations committed in that city or land where God's sanctuary was: or because by these actions they declared to all men that... [ Continue Reading ]
Hide their eyes — Wink at his fault, and forbear to accuse and punish him.... [ Continue Reading ]
To go a whoring — To seek counsel or help from them.... [ Continue Reading ]
Who sanctify you — Who separate you from all nations, and from their impurities and idolatries, to be a peculiar people to myself; and who give you my grace to keep my statutes.... [ Continue Reading ]
Curseth — This is not here meant of every perverse expression, but of bitter reproaches or imprecations. His blood shall be upon him — He is guilty of his own death: he deserves to die for so unnatural a crime.... [ Continue Reading ]
Confusion — By perverting the order which God hath appointed, and making the same off — spring both his own child and his grandchild.... [ Continue Reading ]
Put to death — Except the one party was forced by the other. See Deuteronomy 22:25.... [ Continue Reading ]
They — All who consented to it.... [ Continue Reading ]
Slay the beast — Partly for the prevention of monstrous births, partly to blot out the memory of so loathsome a crime.... [ Continue Reading ]
See her nakedness — In this and several of the following verses, uncovering nakedness plainly appears to mean not marriage, but fornication or adultery.... [ Continue Reading ]
They shall die childless — Either shall be speedily cut off ere they can have a child by that incestuous conjunction; if this seem a less crime than most of the former incestuous mixtures, and therefore the magistrate forbear to punish it with death; yet they shall either have no children from such... [ Continue Reading ]
His brother's wife — Except in the case allowed by God, Deuteronomy 25:5.... [ Continue Reading ]
A man or a woman that hath a familiar spirit, shall surely be put to death — They that are in league with the devil, have in effect made a covenant with death: and so shall their doom be.... [ Continue Reading ]