Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Leviticus 22:25
A stranger's hand — From proselytes: even from those, such should not be accepted, much less from the Israelites. The bread of your God — That is, the sacrifices.
A stranger's hand — From proselytes: even from those, such should not be accepted, much less from the Israelites. The bread of your God — That is, the sacrifices.
Verse Leviticus 22:25. _THEIR CORRUPTION IS IN THEM_] Viz., they are _bruised, crushed, broken_, c....
A STRANGER’S HAND - The word here rendered “stranger”, is not the same as that in Leviticus 22:10, Leviticus 22:18 : it means literally, “the son of the unknown”, and probably refers to one dwelling i...
CHAPTER 22 _ 1. Care to be exercised in holy things (Leviticus 22:1)_ 2. Care in the enforcement of the law of offerings (Leviticus 22:17) Uncleanness such as mentioned in the first part of the chap...
CONDITIONS TO BE SATISFIED BY THE VICTIMS in the case of certain sacrifices. This set of rules is given to Aaron and his sons as containing guidance for the priests-' examination of the animals. For v...
BREAD. food. Figure of speech _Synecdoche_ (of Species), put for all kinds of food. App-6. OF. Genitive of relation. App-17. GOD. Hebrew. _Elohim._ App-4....
The case apparently is that of a foreigner who desires to offer sacrifice, and is forbidden to present an animal with a blemish. So Dillm. It is much less probable that the prohibition is directed aga...
_Directions as to the quality of offerings_ This passage retains clear signs of a remarkably composite character. Leviticus 22:17 _a_indicate (-unto Aaron, and to his sons," -unto all etc.") that wha...
THE BREAD OF YOUR GOD— Or, _The food of your God, i.e._ Sacrifices. [_Because their corruption is in them,—blemishes be in them._] As in the original of these words we find no connective particle, ble...
VOWS AND FREEWILL OFFERINGS 22:17-33 TEXT 22:17-33 17 And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying, 18 Speak unto Aaron, and to his sons, and unto all the children of Israel, and say unto them. Whosoever...
_BUT WHATSOEVER HATH A BLEMISH, THAT SHALL YE NOT OFFER: FOR IT SHALL NOT BE ACCEPTABLE FOR YOU._ No JFB commentary on these verses....
LAWS RELATING TO THE PRIESTHOOD AND SACRIFICE (CONTINUED) 1-6. The holy things may not be eaten by priests otherwise qualified, but ceremonially unclean, nor by any persons outside the priestly famil...
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...
NEITHER FROM A STRANGER’S HAND SHALL YE OFFER. — That is, the prohibition to sacrifice these animals is not restricted to beasts castrated in the land, but extends to all such as have been so treated...
וּ מִ יַּ֣ד בֶּן ־נֵכָ֗ר לֹ֥א תַקְרִ֛יבוּ
Leviticus 7:11 THE PEACE OFFERING Leviticus 3:1; Leviticus 7:11; Leviticus 19:5;...
THE LAW OF PRIESTLY HOLINESS Leviticus 21:1; Leviticus 22:1 THE conception of Israel as a kingdom of priests, a holy nation, was concretely represented in a threefold division of the people, -the con...
Instructions already given are now repeated with greater detail and wider application. Not only must the priest himself be free from blemish and defilement, he must see to it that all that which he of...
Neither (i) from a stranger's hand shall ye offer the bread of your God of any of these; because their corruption [is] in them, [and] blemishes [be] in them: they shall not be accepted for you. (i) Y...
Bread, which always accompanies the sacrifices for sin. Holocausts might be offered by the Gentiles. (2 Machabees iii. 3.; 1 Esdras vi. 9.; Josephus, Antiquities xviii. 7.; Selden, Jur. 3, 4, 7.) ---...
How very interesting is it to every true believer in CHRIST, to see him the great and unblemished sacrifice, so uniformly pointed out in every one. As the LORD JESUS confessed a good confession before...
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...
25._Neither from a stranger’s hand. _God here forbids that victims of this sort should be offered to Him, although they might be purchased from foreigners. The Hebrews, however, has invented a differe...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 21 AND 22. Chapter 21 specially presents what becomes the priests as set apart for Jehovah: this more intimate nearness supposed a conduct corresponding with...
NEITHER FROM A STRANGER'S HAND SHALL YE OFFER THE BREAD OF YOUR GOD OF ANY OF THESE,.... That is, from a Gentile, a proselyte of the gate, who had renounced idolatry, and was willing to offer sacrific...
Neither from a stranger's hand shall ye offer the bread of your God of any of these; because their corruption [is] in them, [and] blemishes [be] in them: they shall not be accepted for you. Ver. 25....
_Neither from a stranger's hand_ From proselytes: even from those, such should not be accepted, much less from the Israelites. _The bread of your God_ That is, the sacrifices....
1 The Priests in their vncleannesse must abstaine from the holy things. 6 How they shall bee cleansed. 10 Who of the Priests house may eate of the holy things. 17 The sacrifices must be without ble...
Neither from a stranger's hand shall ye offer the bread of your God of any of these, because their corruption is in them, and blemishes be in them; they shall not be accepted for you. We Christians sh...
SOME QUALIFICATIONS OF SACRIFICES...
NO PROFANING OF SEPARATED THINGS (VV. 1-16) Aaron and his sons were always in close proximity to those things that had been separated for sacred purposes. They were therefore to be careful as to thei...
NEITHER FROM A STRANGER'S HAND, to wit, from proselytes, from whom less might seem to be expected, and in whom God might bear with some things which he would not bear with in his own people; yet even...
Leviticus 22:25 foreigners H5236 hand H3027 H1121 offer H7126 (H8686) bread H3899 God H430 corruption H4893 def
OFFERINGS AND SACRIFICES MUST BE UNBLEMISHED (LEVITICUS 22:17). Having come to the end of this section concerning the priests the people are now reintroduced. For God's words and commands are for them...
CONTENTS: Separation of the priests; perfection of the sacrifices. CHARACTERS: God, Moses, Aaron and sons. CONCLUSION: Those contract great guilt who profane sacred things, doing in their own unclea...
Leviticus 22:4. _Unclean._ The injunctions in this and the following verses, though not literally binding on christians, yet the holy law from whence they emanate is not to be disregarded. Every infir...
LEVITICUS—NOTE ON LEVITICUS 22:17 Animals with defects are considered unholy and incomplete, and are not to be offered to the Holy One. ⇐...
Priestly Privileges Forfeited by Uncleanness SUGGESTIVE READINGS Leviticus 22:1.—Profane not My holy name in those things which they hallow unto Me. Holy things must not be touched with unclean hands...
EXPOSITION This chapter, which is a continuation of Leviticus 21:1, (1) commands that the ceremonially defiled priest shall not officiate or partake of the sacrificial offerings; (2) declares who m...
Now in the twenty-second chapter he deals with the priests and the things that they could eat. You see the things that were brought in sacrifice; a portion of them became meat for the priest. So the q...
1 John 5:18; Ephesians 2:12; Ezra 6:8; Leviticus 21:21; Leviticus 21