Leviticus 4:2

_SPEAK UNTO THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL, SAYING, IF A SOUL SHALL SIN THROUGH IGNORANCE AGAINST ANY OF THE COMMANDMENTS OF THE LORD CONCERNING THINGS WHICH OUGHT NOT TO BE DONE, AND SHALL DO AGAINST ANY OF THEM:_ If a soul shall sin through ignorance - a soul-an individual. All sins may be considered, in a certain sense, as committed "through ignorance," error, or misapprehension of one's true interests. The sins, however, referred to in this law were unintentional violations of the ceremonial laws, breaches made through haste, or inadvertency of some negative precepts, which, if done knowingly and willfully, would have involved a capital punishment. DO AGAINST ANY OF THEM. To bring out the meaning, it is necessary to supply, 'he shall bring a sin offering.' Such sins of ignorance must have been of rare, or at least, of only occasional occurrence. х_ CHATAA'T _ (H2403)] "sin offering" is dis...

1-12 Burnt-offerings, meat-offerings, and peace-offerings, had been offered before the giving of the law upon mount Sinai; and in these the patriarchs had respect to sin, to make atonement for it. But the Jews were now put into a way of making atonement for sin, more particularly by sacrifice, as a shadow of good things to come; yet the substance is Christ, and that one offering of himself, by which he put away sin. The sins for which the sin-offerings were appointed are supposed to be open acts. They are supposed to be sins of commission, things which ought not to have been done. Omissions are sins, and must come into judgment: yet what had been omitted at one time, might be done at another; but a sin committed was past recall. They are supposed to be sins committed through ignorance. The law begins with the case of the anointed priest. It is evident that God never had any infallible p...

Verse Leviticus 4:2. _IF A SOUL SHALL SIN THROUGH IGNORANCE_] That is, if any man shall do what God has forbidden, or leave undone what God has commanded, through ignorance of the law relative to these points; as soon as the transgression or omission comes to his knowledge, he shall offer the sacrifice here prescribed, and shall not suppose that his _ignorance_ is an excuse for his sin. He who, when his iniquity comes to his knowledge, refuses to offer such a sacrifice, sins obstinately and _wilfully_, and to him there _remains no_ other _sacrifice for sin _- no other mode by which he can be reconciled to God, _but he has a certain fearful looking for of_ _judgment _- _which shall devour_ such _adversaries_; and this seems the case to which the apostle alludes, H...

AND THE LORD SPAKE ... ISRAEL - This formula is the commencement of a distinct section of the Law. Leviticus 4:2 IF A SOUL SHALL SIN - The sin-offering was a new thing, instituted by the Law. The older kinds of sacrifice Leviticus 2:1; Leviticus 3:1 when offered by individuals were purely voluntary: no special occasions were prescribed. But it was plainly commanded that he who was conscious that he had committed a sin should bring his sin-offering. In the abridged rules for sin-offerings in Numbers 15:22, the kind of sin for which sin-offerings were accepted

EXPOSITION THE SIN OFFERING (Leviticus 4:1, Leviticus 5:1). At the time of the Mosaic legislation, burnt offerings and meat offerings were already in existence, and had existed from the time of the Fall. A beginning, therefore, is made with them, and the regulations of the peace offerings naturally follow, because these sacrifices succeed in order to the burnt and meat offerings, and because sacrifices in some respects of the same nature as peace offerings had previously existed under a different name (cf. Exodus 10:25 with Exodus 24:5, and see above notes on...

SPEAK UNTO THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL, [SAYING],.... For this law concerning the sin offering, as the rest, only belonged to them, and such as were proselyted to them: IF A SOUL SHOULD SIN THROUGH IGNORANCE; sin is from the soul, though committed by the body; it is the soul that sins, Ezekiel 18:4 it includes, as Aben Ezra observes, both Israelites and proselytes; who sinned through ignorance either of the law, that such things were forbidden, or of having committed them, they being done unobserved, and through inadvertency; or were forgotten that they were done, or were done through error and mistake; these sins are what the apostle calls the errors of the people, their strayings out of the way through ignorance and inadvertency, Hebrews 5:2 such sins as a man is overtaken with unawares, and is

4. THE SIN OFFERING Chapter S 4-5:13 _ 1. The second utterance of Jehovah (Leviticus 4:1)_ 2. The sin offering for the high priest (Leviticus 4:3) 3. The sin offering for the congregation (Leviticus 4:13) 4. The sin offering for the ruler (Leviticus 4:22) 5. The sin offering for one of the people (Leviticus 4:27) 6. The sin offering for special inadvertent offences (Leviticus 5:1) The burnt of

LEVITICUS 4:1 F. GENERAL STATEMENT. These sins are committed through error (RVm), when the sinner thinks that he is doing something else, or does not know that what he is doing is wrong; _i.e._ to us, they are not sins at all. _Cf._ Leviticus 4:22; Numbers 15:24; Joshua 20:3, and contrast the phrase, sinning with a high hand, _i.e._ deliberately (Numbers 15:30; _cf._ penalties in Leviticus 20:2 ff.); for this, only excommunication or death is pos

CHILDREN. Hebrew sons. SOUL. Hebrew. _nephesh._ See App-13. Not as in the burnt offering; no voluntary offering here. IGNORANCE. If man cannot _know_ what sin is, how can he know how to put it away? If he know not his own sin, how can he know or put away that of others?...

Leviticus 4:1. A general introduction like that in Leviticus 1:1-2. From here to Leviticus 6:7 a new class of sacrifices are prescribed, the Sin-Offerings and Guilt-Offerings, and the _occasions_on which they are to be brought are specified, while in chs. 1 3 nothing is said about _when_the sacrifices are to be brought; their ceremonial only is regulated. The Sin-Offering is for sins committed _unwittingly_(_through ignorance_A.V.); for sins committed presumptuously (Heb. _with an high hand_, Numbers 15:30) the punishment is -that soul shall be cut off from among his people." The same distinction is drawn in...