II. (1) A MEAT OFFERING. — Better, _an oblation of a meat offering,_ as the same two words are rendered in Leviticus 2:4; Leviticus 2:13. The meat offerings which come next in the legal enumeration, and which occupy the whole of the present chapter, consisted of three kinds. The first is fine flour... [ Continue Reading ]
AND HE SHALL TAKE. — Better, _And the priest shall take from it a handful of its flour and of its oil with all its frankincense, and this shall he burn as its memorial upon the altar,_ &c. MEMORIAL. — So called because it was designed to bring the worshipper into the grateful remembrance of God, an... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THE REMNANT. — With the exception of the memorial or the handful of flour and oil, and of all the frankincense, this meat offering belonged to the priests, who divided it among them, and by whom alone it was to be consumed in the court of the sanctuary. A THING MOST HOLY. — The offerings consist... [ Continue Reading ]
A meat offering baked in the oven. — The second kind of meat offering consisted of preparations baked with oil in the oven, or in the pan, or cooked in a pot (Leviticus 2:4). The oven is probably the portable pot, open at the top, about three feet high and liable to be broken (Leviticus 11:35), whic... [ Continue Reading ]
BAKEN IN A PAN. — Better, _a flat plate._ This is probably the iron fire-plate (Ezekiel 5:3), with a convex surface, which is placed horizontally upon stones about nine inches from the ground, and underneath which the fire is kindled, used by the Arabs to this day. The large thin cakes, and the thin... [ Continue Reading ]
THOU SHALT PART IT IN PIECES. — The cake thus baked was not to be offered as a whole, but broken up in pieces and mingled with oil. Bread, broken in pieces and steeped in oil, butter, milk, or sweet juices, still constitutes a favourite dish among the Bedouin Arabs.... [ Continue Reading ]
BAKEN IN THE FRYING-PAN. — Better, _boiled in a pan._ This is a deeper vessel than the frying-pan, and corresponds more to our stew-pan or pot. In this deep vessel the cakes were boiled in oil.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THOU SHALT BRING. — Whichever of the three cereal preparations is preferred, the offerer is to present it to the priest, who is to take it to the altar. During the second Temple, the pieces were put into a ministering vessel, oil and frankincense were then put on them, and the vessel was carried... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THE PRIEST. — Leviticus 2:9, which conclude the law about the bloodless offerings, resume and expand the directions given in Leviticus 2:1.... [ Continue Reading ]
NO MEAT OFFERING. — Leviticus 2:11 add some general rules respecting meat offerings. As honey was used in olden times to produce fermentation, it is excluded, like fermented dough, from these offerings. (See Leviticus 11:20.)... [ Continue Reading ]
AS FOR THE OBLATION. — Better, _as an oblation of firstfruits ye may offer them._ This verse mentions an exception to the rule laid down in the previous one. _i.e.,_ leaven and honey, which are excluded from the meat offerings, may be used with firstfruits. Hence they are mentioned with firstfruits... [ Continue Reading ]
AND EVERY OBLATION. — But salt, which is the contrary to leaven, and which preserves from putrefaction and corruption, was to be an ingredient, not only of bloodless, but of all animal sacrifices (Ezekiel 43:24). THE SALT OF THE COVENANT OF THY GOD. — From its antiseptic and savoury qualities, salt... [ Continue Reading ]
AND IF THOU OFFER. — The third kind of meat offering (Leviticus 2:14) is of the firstfruits. These verses should properly come immediately after Leviticus 2:12, since Leviticus 2:13 concludes the directions about the different kinds of _minchas_ or bloodless offerings, with general remarks applying... [ Continue Reading ]