Leviticus 1 - Introduction
_OF THE BURNT-OFFERINGS OF THE HERD, OF THE FLOCKS, AND OF THE FOWLS; AND IN WHAT MANNER EACH WERE TO BE OFFERED._ _Before Christ 1490._... [ Continue Reading ]
_OF THE BURNT-OFFERINGS OF THE HERD, OF THE FLOCKS, AND OF THE FOWLS; AND IN WHAT MANNER EACH WERE TO BE OFFERED._ _Before Christ 1490._... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THE LORD CALLED UNTO MOSES— The particle ו _vau,_ here rendered _and,_ might with as much propriety be rendered _then._ See Exodus 40:34. It serves, however, to shew how closely this book is connected with the former; as well as to signify to us, that God, having now taken possession of the hous... [ Continue Reading ]
IF ANY MAN OF YOU BRING AN OFFERING UNTO THE LORD— Some have supposed, that this _if_ implies a _permission,_ and not a _command;_ whereas the particle כי _ki_ should either be rendered _who_ or _when:_ "the man _who_ shall bring an "offering;" or, _"when_ any man shall bring an offering." (See Nold... [ Continue Reading ]
IF HIS OFFERING BE A BURNT-SACRIFICE OF THE HERD— The _burnt sacrifice,_ as being the principal, is mentioned first: it was wholly consumed upon the altar, and therefore usually called an _holocaust_ by the Greeks. There were four other sorts of sacrifices, _meat-offerings, peace-offerings, sin-offe... [ Continue Reading ]
HE SHALL PUT HIS HAND UPON THE HEAD OF THE BURNT-OFFERING— See note on Exodus 29:10 and Leviticus 16:21. The same custom in sacrificing was common in Egypt. The offerer, [in this holy sacrifice,] says one, hereby testified, that he acknowledged himself worthy of death; that he laid his sins upon his... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THE PRIESTS—SHALL BRING THE BLOOD— This _blood,_ as Le Clerc observes, was to be offered by the priest alone, and served to remind the person who brought the victim, that he was in a sinful state, and so not worthy to have access to God, but through a mediator; and a _mediator,_ be it noted, off... [ Continue Reading ]
AND HE SHALL FLAY THE BURNT-OFFERING— _He,_ that is, _the offerer,_ as it is generally thought. Abrabenel asserts, that the owner of the sacrifice laid his hands upon it, killed, flayed, cut it up, and washed the entrails; and then the priest received the blood in a vessel, sprinkled it, put fire on... [ Continue Reading ]
HIS INWARDS AND HIS LEGS— By the _inwards,_ Le Clerc and others understand the whole carcase; all that was under the skin, as _viscera_ sometimes signifies in the Latin. The washing of these parts is allowed to denote that universal purity which was in Christ, the great Antitype of all the sacrifice... [ Continue Reading ]
HE SHALL PLUCK AWAY HIS CROP WITH HIS FEATHERS— Every thing in these sacrifices points cut to us the necessity of moral purity in all our offerings and approaches to God; while it is pleasing to observe that the heart, and not the sacrifice, is the gift most acceptable to the Lord. The _humble_ dove... [ Continue Reading ]