Leviticus 5:17

_AND IF A SOUL SIN, AND COMMIT ANY OF THESE THINGS WHICH ARE FORBIDDEN TO BE DONE BY THE COMMANDMENTS OF THE LORD; THOUGH HE WIST IT NOT, YET IS HE GUILTY, AND SHALL BEAR HIS INIQUITY._ If a soul sin ... though he wist it not. This also refers to holy things, and it differs from the preceding in being one of the doubtful cases - i:e., where conscience suspects, though the understanding be in doubt, whether criminality or sin has been committed. The Jewish Rabbis give as an example the case of a person who, knowing that "the fat of the inward" is not to be eaten, religiously abstained from the use of it; but should a dish happen to have been at table, in which he had reason to suspect some portion of that meat was intermingled, and he had inadvertently partaken of that unlawful viand, he was bound to bring a ram as a trespass offering. These provisions were all designed to impress the co...

17._And if soul sin. _Although the expressions seem to be general, as if he briefly confirmed what he had said before, yet it is necessary to connect them with the last sentence, or at least to restrict them to certain cases. The former exposition appears to me to be the right one; nor is there any absurdity in the repetition, to cut off all occasion for subterfuge from the disobedient. Still I do not deny that the reason which is added at the end, applies to all the modes of expiation of which he has been treating; viz., that although he may pretend ignorance who has fallen into sin inconsiderately, or who has not intentionally sinned, or who through forgetfulness has contracted any defilement, still he is guilty before God until he makes reconciliation. When therefore he _again commands _that a ram without blemish, and of full value should be offered, he once more shews how they must p...

14-19 Here are offerings to atone for trespasses against a neighbour. If a man put to his own use unwittingly, any thing dedicated to God, he was to bring this sacrifice. We are to be jealous over ourselves, to ask pardon for the sin, and make satisfaction for the wrong, which we do but suspect ourselves guilty of. The law of God is so very broad, the occasions of sin in this guilty of. The law of God is so very broad, the occasions of sin in this world are so numerous, and we are so prone to evil, that we need to fear always, and to pray always, that we may be kept from sin. Also we should look before us at every step. The true Christian daily pleads guilty before God, and seeks forgiveness through the blood of Christ. And the gospel salvation is so free, that the poorest is not shut out; and so full, that the most burdened conscience may find relief from it. Yet the evil of sin is so d...

THOUGH HE WIST IT NOT - Ignorance of the Law, or even of the consequences of the act at the time that it was committed, was not to excuse him from the obligation to offer the sacrifice....

EXPOSITION THE TRESPASS OFFERING (Leviticus 5:14-3, Leviticus 6:1). The new heading with which Leviticus 5:14 begins indicates that it is here and not at Leviticus 5:1 that the section on trespass offerings commences. Sin offerings and trespass offerings are not distinguished from each other in Psalms 40:6; Hebrews 10:8; and the classification of the sins which require one or the other offering has c

AND IF A SOUL SIN, AND COMMIT ANY OF THESE THINGS WHICH ARE FORBIDDEN TO BE DONE BY THE COMMANDMENTS OF THE LORD,.... Respecting holy things: THOUGH HE WIST IT NOT; or did not know that he had transgressed a negative command: YET HE IS GUILTY, AND SHALL BEAR THE INIQUITY; be chargeable with guilt, and is liable to punishment, and must make an atonement and satisfaction for it; see Luke 12:48....

5. THE TRESPASS OFFERING Chapter S 5:14-6:7 _ 1. The trespass against Jehovah (Leviticus 5:14)_ 2. The trespass against man (Leviticus 6:1) The brief section which gives instruction concerning the trespass offering contains twice the statement, “Jehovah spake unto Moses” (Leviticus 5:14 and Leviticus 6:1). Sin is here looked upon as an injury done. The trespass offering was always a ram without a blemish out of the flock (verses 15, 18; 6:6). First the wrong is mentioned done in holy things of Jehovah or something done against His commands, and secondly, wrongs done against his neighbor, which Jehovah

LEVITICUS 5:14 TO LEVITICUS 6:7. THE TRESPASS OR GUILT OFFERING. This is of two kinds, though the principle of amendment is the same. The first kind is stated vaguely; committing a trespass (the word means acting unfaithfully or treacherously; it is coupled with sinning unwittingly in Leviticus 5:15; Leviticus 5:17). The offence consists in treating what is Yahweh's as if it were not Yahweh's, _i.e._ in-correctness, really unintentional, connected with some offering. If not unintentional, the penalty is different (Numbers 15:30). The offerer i

ANY. any one of these things specified in Leviticus 5:15. WIST IT NOT. knew it not. This effectually disposes of the fallacy that it is only _sincerity_ that matters. Note the repetition of the words in verses: Leviticus 5:17 to emphasize this. INIQUITY. Hebrew. _'avah._ App-44....

(_b_) 17 19. _if any one sin, and do any of the things which the Lord hath commanded not to be done_ The description of the sin in this case is the same as that in Leviticus 4:2; Leviticus 4:13; Leviticus 4:22; Leviticus 4:27. In what respect do these sins (which here require a Guilt-Offering) differ from those in ch. 4 for which a Sin-Offering is prescribed? The difference is indicated in the words -though he knew (-wist" A.V.) _it_not." They are not the same as the Heb. expression rendered _unwittingly_(_concerning his ignorance_A.V.), for in...