_A.M. 2514. B.C. 1490._ Further directions concerning the trespass-offering, Leviticus 7:1. The burnt-offering and meat or meal-offering, Leviticus 7:8. The peace-offering, Leviticus 7:11. Fat and blood again forbidden, Leviticus 7:22. The priest's share of it, Leviticus 7:28. The conclusion of the... [ Continue Reading ]
Here the priests are directed in their office about the trespass- offerings, as the people had been before. _The blood shall he sprinkle round about_ This is a different rule from that observed in the _sin-offering_, the blood of which was to be put upon the _horns_ of the altar, Leviticus 4:25; but... [ Continue Reading ]
_As is the sin-offering, so is the trespass-offering_ In the matter following, for in other things they differed. _The priests shall have it _ That part of it which was by God allowed to the priest. _The priest shall have to himself the skin_ The note of Bishop Patrick is worth transcribing here: “A... [ Continue Reading ]
_All the meat_ or meal- _offering shall be the priest's_ Except the part reserved by God, (Leviticus 2:2; Leviticus 2:9,) these being ready dressed, and hot, and to be eaten presently. And the priest who offered it was, in reason, to expect something more than his brethren who laboured not about it,... [ Continue Reading ]
_This is the law of the sacrifice of peace-offerings_ These are the only sort of offerings to be spoken of. There were several sorts of them, which required various rites. The first was a _gratulatory_ offering, or a sacrifice of thanksgiving, so called because it was offered to God for some particu... [ Continue Reading ]
_If he offer it for a thanksgiving_ Hebrew, על תודה, _gnal todah, for confession_, it being accompanied with a public confession or acknowledgment of the mercies and deliverances which the offerer had received from God. And to this the apostle alludes, (Hebrews 13:15,) exhorting Christians to offer... [ Continue Reading ]
_Leavened bread_ Because this was a sacrifice of another kind than those in which leaven was forbidden, this being a sacrifice of thanksgiving for God's blessings, among which leavened bread was one. Leaven indeed was universally forbidden, Leviticus 2:11; but that prohibition concerned only things... [ Continue Reading ]
_The flesh shall be eaten the same day_ This was partly that none of it might be exposed to corruption, (for by the third day it might easily, in those hot countries, putrefy,) and partly that the offerer might not be sordidly saving of this sacred banquet, but be taught to show his piety to God by... [ Continue Reading ]
_If the sacrifice be a vow_ Offered in performance of a vow, the offerer having desired some special favour from God, and vowed the sacrifice to God if he would grant it. _A voluntary offering_, which a person offered freely to God, in testimony of his faith and love, not being under the obligation... [ Continue Reading ]
_The flesh on the third day shall be burned with fire_ Lest it should putrefy, and so be exposed to contempt, and to prevent their distrust of God's providence, or indulging a covetous disposition, by reserving for domestic use what ought to be given to their friends or the poor. _If eaten at all on... [ Continue Reading ]
_All that be clean shall eat thereof_ Whether priests, or offerers, or guests invited. Both the flesh and the eaters of it must be clean. _The soul that eateth_ Knowingly; for if it were done ignorantly, a sacrifice was accepted for it. _Having his uncleanness upon him_ Not being cleansed according... [ Continue Reading ]
The general prohibition of eating fat, (Leviticus 3:17,) is here explained of those kinds of creatures which were sacrificed. The fat of others they might eat. And (Lev 7:24) he shows that this prohibition reached not only to the fat of those beasts which were offered to God, but also of those that... [ Continue Reading ]
_Shall bring_ Not by another, but by himself, that is, those parts of the peace-offering which are in a special manner offered to God. _His oblation unto the Lord_ That is, to the tabernacle, where the Lord was present in a special manner _His own hands_ After the beast was killed, and the parts of... [ Continue Reading ]
_The wave-breast, and the heave-shoulder_ Hebrew, _The breast of elevation, and the shoulder of exaltation;_ that is, those parts which are consecrated to me by _lifting_, or _heaving_ them up toward heaven. The breast or heart is the seat of wisdom; and the shoulder, of strength for action; and the... [ Continue Reading ]
_This is the portion of the anointing_ That is, their portion in consequence of their unction to the priests' office, appointed them by God in that day, and therefore to be given them in after ages. Thus God kindly provides for them that are given up entirely to his service in things sacred. _Of the... [ Continue Reading ]
_In mount Sinai_ Rather, _by mount Sinai;_ for Moses had been some time come down from the mount, and these commands were given him from the tabernacle, Leviticus 1:1. He and the people, however, were still _in the wilderness of Sinai_, or in that tract of land adjoining to the mount, which, being d... [ Continue Reading ]