CONTENTS As the preceding chapter contained the law respecting, unclean persons, in this we have the law concerning the Nazarites who were devoted to the LORD by their vows. The chapter is rendered interesting also, from another consideration, in that it closes with the blessing, wherewith the LORD... [ Continue Reading ]
It is hardly possible to enter upon the perusal of this chapter, on the subject of the Nazarites, without calling to mind him, who at his entrance into the world, in substance of our flesh, we are told, came and dwelt in a city called Nazareth, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prop... [ Continue Reading ]
And was not JESUS separated, and solemnly set apart to the service of his FATHER? Reader, do not forget what JESUS hath said himself, respecting this, of being sanctified or set apart for his people. John 17:19.... [ Continue Reading ]
How precious is it to behold, in this instance also, the blessed JESUS typified. The Church is described by Solomon under this similitude: Her hair is a flock of goats that appear from Mount Gilead. Song 1-8. And are not the LORD'S people like the hairs of his head, a multitude which grow upon him,... [ Continue Reading ]
Our dear LORD here manifested his holiness, for though touching a dead body, as in the case of those he raised from the dead, yet he himself contracted no uncleanness! How sweet and delightful it is to see, that in all he did and suffered for us, it conveyed no shadow of taint to him. He was made si... [ Continue Reading ]
Secondarily and subordinately to the grand subject, of being typical to the ever blessed Nazarite, the LORD JESUS CHRIST, we may behold in this chapter, several circumstances which had a reference to the character of the Nazarites in general. Those verses particularly point out the law, as it relate... [ Continue Reading ]
Let not the Reader overlook in all this process of the sin-offering, and meat-offering, and drink-offering, and peace-offering, now that one grand and all sufficient-offering of the LORD JESUS is shadowed forth. The waving before the LORD evidently manifested to when the offering was made: and while... [ Continue Reading ]
I have often considered the blessing here appointed by GOD himself, as being a very striking form of expression. This is what may be considered as the great standard for blessing GOD'S people, in the Old Testament dispensation, as that expressed by the apostle Paul, is the order under the New: 2 Cor... [ Continue Reading ]
REFLECTIONS HERE, my soul, let me stand and view, in the contemplation of the Nazarites, that holy Nazarite, that unequalled spotless SON of GOD, who for my sake separated himself from all that was corrupt in our nature, when in that nature he undertook and accomplished, the salvation of his people... [ Continue Reading ]