Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Leviticus 20:8
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.
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.
3. WARNINGS AGAINST SPECIAL SINS AND THEIR PENALTIES CHAPTER 20 _ 1. Warning against Molech--worship and familiar spirits (Leviticus 20:1)_ 2. Warning against cursing parents (Leviticus 20:9) 3. C...
WORSHIP OF MOLECH, ETC. Offering children to Molech (see Leviticus 18:21 *) is to be punished by stoning; such a death emphasizes the repudiation by the whole community and involves everyone in the ac...
THE LORDWHICH SANCTIFY YOU. _Jehovah Mekad-dishkem,_ one of the Jehovah titles. See App-4....
CONSORTING WITH WIZARDS AND NECROMANCERS 20:6-8 TEXT 20:6-8 6 And the soul that turneth unto them that have familiar spirits, and unto the wizards, to play the harlot after them, I will even set my...
_SANCTIFY YOURSELVES THEREFORE, AND BE YE HOLY: FOR I AM THE LORD YOUR GOD._ Sanctify yourselves ... and be ye holy. The minute specification of the incestuous and unnatural crimes here enumerated sh...
(CHS. 17-26) THE LAW OF HOLINESS This section of Leviticus occupies a position by itself, being distinguished from the rest of the book both by style and contents. A few only of its main characteristi...
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...
SANCTIFY YOURSELVES THEREFORE, AND BE YE HOLY. — Rather, _Ye shall therefore sanctify yourselves, and ye shall be holy,_ as the same phrase is rendered in the Authorised Version in Leviticus 11:44. Th...
וּ שְׁמַרְתֶּם֙ אֶת ־חֻקֹּתַ֔י וַ עֲשִׂיתֶ֖ם...
PENAL SANCTIONS Leviticus 20:1 In no age or community has it been found sufficient, to secure obedience, that one should appeal to the conscience of men, or depend, as a sufficient motive, upon the n...
Once more we have a repetition of laws already enunciated with the same persistent thought of responsibility. In this section we find the death sentence associated with certain forms of disobedience,...
_Sanctify you, and order you to keep at a distance from the impure worship of other nations. (Haydock)_...
The LORD'S people must be a distinguished people, 1 Peter 1:16....
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...
_SANCTIFICATION HUMAN AND DIVINE_ ‘Sanctify yourselves.’ … ‘I am the Lord which sanctify you.’ Leviticus 20:7 I. SANCTIFICATION IS GOD’S AIM FOR US ALL.—‘God called us, not for uncleanness, but in...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 19 AND 20. Chapter s 19, 20, carry us somewhat farther. They were to be holy, for Jehovah was holy. Chapter 19 takes up rather the side of good, though keepin...
AND YE SHALL KEEP MY STATUTES, AND DO THEM,.... Not only those respecting the above things, but all others, which would be a means of preserving them from sin, and of promoting holiness in their lives...
And ye shall keep my statutes, and do them: I [am] the LORD which sanctify you. Ver. 8. _I am the Lord which sanctify you._] _Ut acti agatis,_ that ye may trade with your talents, sanctify the Lord G...
_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....
1 Of him that giueth of his seed to Molech. 4 of him that fauoureth such an one. 6 Of going to Wizards. 7 Of sanctification. 9 Of him that curseth his parents. 10 Of adulterie. 11.14.17.19 Of Inc...
And ye shall keep My statutes and do them. I am the Lord which sanctify you. By training them to observe the ordinances of His holy will God was consecrating them to be a holy people in His service....
FOR SINS AGAINST THE SIXTH, SECOND, AND FOURTH COMMANDMENTS...
PENALTIES FOR SIN GODWARD (VV. 1-8) Chapter 19 has given many laws forbidding sin; now chapter 20 shows that law, when it is broken, demands certain penalties. These penalties were to be executed as s...
1-9 Are we shocked at the unnatural cruelty of the ancient idolaters in sacrificing their children? We may justly be so. But are there not very many parents, who, by bad teaching and wicked examples,...
i.e. Who separated you from all nations, and from their impurities and idolatries, to be a peculiar people to myself, and therefore I will not suffer you to follow their examples. Or, who really sanct...
Leviticus 20:8 keep H8104 (H8804) statutes H2708 perform H6213 (H8804) LORD H3068 sanctifies H6942 (H8764)...
ISRAEL ARE TO BE SANCTIFIED AND OBEDIENT (LEVITICUS 20:7). Israel are to sanctify themselves to being holy (Leviticus 20:7) and must be obedient because Yahweh is santifying them (Leviticus 20:8)....
CONTENTS: Further laws on relationship and walk of God's people. CHARACTERS: God, Moses. CONCLUSION: God has distinguished His people from all others by a holy covenant with them through Christ, the...
Leviticus 20:2. _Molech._ See on Leviticus 18:21. Leviticus 20:3. _I will cut him off._ Ahaz gave his son to Molech, and the Lord afflicted his reign with miseries....
_He shall surely be put to death._ PENAL SANCTIONS This chapter, directly or indirectly, casts no little light on some most fundamental and practical questions regarding the administration of justice...
LEVITICUS—NOTE ON LEVITICUS 20:7 The Lord SANCTIFIES the Israelites by making them his holy people, set apart to be his own. Now he calls on them to CONSECRATE themselves and be holy
Social and Moral Crimes SUGGESTIVE READINGS Leviticus 20:2.—Again thou shalt say to the children of Israel. These denunclations of sin (already denounced in ch. 18.) are to be _repeated_ in the heari...
EXPOSITION The subject of Leviticus 18:1, is resumed in this chapter; but that which was before considered as sin only is now regarded as crime, and penalties are attached according to the heinousness...
Chapter twenty, now God begins to get a little heavier. In chapter twenty God goes over some of the things He dealt with in chapter eighteen, only in chapter twenty telling that the violators of these...
1 Corinthians 1:30; 1 Thessalonians 5:23; 2 Thessalonians 2:13; Exodus 31:13;...