_A.M. 2514. B.C. 1490._ The prohibitions, (1,) _ That no sacrifice be offered by any but the priests, nor anywhere but at the door of the tabernacle, Leviticus 17:1._ (2,) _ That no blood be eaten, Leviticus 17:10._... [ Continue Reading ]
_That killeth_ Not for common use, for such beasts might be killed by any person or in any place, (Deuteronomy 12:5; Deuteronomy 12:26,) but for _sacrifice_, as the sense is limited, Leviticus 17:5, where the reason of the injunction is given. It is true, some suppose that the Israelites were forbid... [ Continue Reading ]
_The tabernacle_ This was appointed in opposition to the heathens, who sacrificed in all places; to cut off occasions of idolatry; to prevent the people's usurpation of the priest's office, and to signify that God would accept of no sacrifices but through Christ and in the church; of both which the... [ Continue Reading ]
_They offer_ The Israelites, before the building of the tabernacle, did so, from which they are now restrained. _Peace-offerings_ He does not name these exclusively from others, as appears from the reason of the law, and from Leviticus 17:8, but because in these the temptation was more common in reg... [ Continue Reading ]
_Upon the altar_ This verse contains a reason of the foregoing law, because of God's propriety in the _blood and fat_, wherewith also God was well pleased, and the people reconciled. And these two parts only are mentioned, as the most eminent and peculiar, though other parts also were reserved for G... [ Continue Reading ]
_Unto devils_ So they did, not directly or intentionally, but by construction and consequence, because the devil is the author of idolatry, and is eminently served and honoured by it. And as the Egyptians were notorious for their idolatry, so the Israelites were infected with their leaven, Joshua 24... [ Continue Reading ]
_I will set my face_ I will be an enemy to him, and execute vengeance upon him immediately; because such persons probably would do this in private, so that the magistrate could not know nor punish it. Write that man undone, for ever undone, against whom God _sets his face._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Is in the blood_ Depends upon the blood, is preserved and nourished by it. _The blood maketh atonement_ Typically, and in respect of the blood of Christ which it represented, and by which the atonement is really made. So the reason is double. 1st, Because this was eating the ransom of their own liv... [ Continue Reading ]
_That eateth_ Through ignorance or inadvertency; for if it was done knowingly, it was more severely punished. _A stranger_ Who is a proselyte to the Jewish religion: other strangers were allowed to eat such things, (Deuteronomy 14:21,) out of which the blood was either not drawn at all, or not regul... [ Continue Reading ]
_His iniquity_ The punishment of it, and therefore must offer a sacrifice for it.... [ Continue Reading ]