Leviticus 6:2

_IF A SOUL SIN, AND COMMIT A TRESPASS AGAINST THE LORD, AND LIE UNTO HIS NEIGHBOUR IN THAT WHICH WAS DELIVERED HIM TO KEEP, OR IN FELLOWSHIP, OR IN A THING TAKEN AWAY BY VIOLENCE, OR HATH DECEIVED HIS NEIGHBOUR;_ If a soul ... commit a trespass against the Lord. This law, the record of which should have been joined with the previous chapter, was given concerning things stolen, fraudulently gotten, or wrongfully kept. The offender was enjoined to make restitution of the articles to the rightful owner, along with a fifth part out of his own possessions. But it was not enough thus to repair the injury done to a neighbour and to society. He was required to bring a trespass offering, as a token of sorrow and penitence for having hurt the cause of religion and of God. That trespass offering was a ram without blemish [Septuagint, krion apo toon probatoon amoomon timees eis ho epleemmeleese-a f...

1-7 Though all the instances relate to our neighbour, yet it is called a trespass against the Lord. Though the person injured be mean, and even despicable, yet the injury reflects upon that God who has made the command of loving our neighbour next to that of loving himself. Human laws make a difference as to punishments; but all methods of doing wrong to others, are alike violations of the Divine law, even keeping what is found, when the owner can be discovered. Frauds are generally accompanied with lies, often with false oaths. If the offender would escape the vengeance of God, he must make ample restitution, according to his power, and seek forgiveness by faith in that one Offering which taketh away the sin of the world. The trespasses here mentioned, still are trespasses against the law of Christ, which insists as much upon justice and truth, as the law of nature, or the law of Moses....

Verse Leviticus 6:2. _LIE UNTO HIS NEIGHBOUR, C._] This must refer to a case in which a person delivered his property to his neighbour to be preserved for him, and took no witness to attest the delivery of the goods such a person therefore might deny that he had ever received such goods, for he who had deposited them with him could bring no proof of the delivery. On the other hand, a man might accuse his neighbour of detaining property which had never been confided to him, or, after having been confided, had been restored again; hence the law here is very cautious on these points: and because in many cases it was impossible to come at the whole truth without a direct revelation from God, which should in no _common_ case be expected, the penalties are very moderate; for in such cases, even when guilt was discovered, the man might not be so criminal as appearances might intimate....

EXPOSITION THE TRESPASS OFFERING—_continued_ (Leviticus 6:1). The next seven verses, which in the Hebrew arrangement form the conclusion of the previous chapter, enumerate cases of fraud and wrong, for which a trespass offering is required. They are moral, not ceremonial offenses. Reparation and the payment of a fine are demanded before the offering is made. LEVITICUS 6:1 AND THE LORD SPAKE. The six following verses contain a separate communication from the Lord to Moses, but in continuance of the subject which began at Le Leviticus 5:14....

IF A SOUL SIN, AND COMMIT A TRESPASS AGAINST THE LORD,.... All sin is against the Lord, contrary to his nature and will, and a transgression of his law; but some sins are more apparently so than others, and against which he expresses greater indignation and abhorrence, being attended also with very aggravating circumstances, as these that follow; which are such as are not only contrary to the will of God, but to the good of society, and tend to the subversion of it, of which he is the founder and supporter, and especially when he is sworn by, and appealed to as a witness, in a case not only injurious but false: AND LIE UNTO HIS NEIGHBOUR IN THAT WHICH WAS DELIVERED HIM TO KEEP; whether money or goods, or any living creature, sheep, cow, horse, c. and should deny that ever anything was delivered to him, and take his oath upon it which is a very grievous crime, and not to go unpunished, a...

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

SOUL. PERSON. Hebrew. _nephesh_ (App-13). TRESPASS. Hebrew. _ma'al._ App-44. All sin is viewed as "against Jehovah". Compare Psalms 51:4. DELIVERED HIM TO KEEP. a deposit. Otherwise treasure was generally hidden in the ground. Isaiah 45:3.Proverbs 2:4.Job 3:21. IN FELLOWSHIP. in pledge. Hebrew giving the hand, put by Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of the Adjunct) for pledging....

(_c_) Leviticus 6:1-7 [Heb. 5:20 26]. _Damage done to the property of another by fraud or violence_ This section of the laws regulating the Guilt-Offering has a special heading like that in Leviticus 5:14, introducing those laws, whereas the whole of the legislation with respect to the Sin-Offering has but one introductory heading in Leviticus 4:1. Many of these offences are dealt with in Exodus 22:7-13 where the legal procedure is set forth; here they are regarded as a trespass against the Lord, and a sacrifice is demanded. It is thought that the cases treated here are those which are disclosed by the evil doer volun

COMMIT A TRESPASS AGAINST THE LORD— Known and voluntary sins are considered in this chapter. Every sin which men commit, says Jameson from Calmet, is against God, the supreme Lawgiver and Judge; but especially such sins, as, being committed in secresy, or lying out of the reach of human jurisdiction, cannot be punished by men; or which are not very liable to be detected, unless by the conviction of men's consciences, and an awful regard to the majesty of God, who knows the secret thoughts of the heart. Now the trespasses here mentioned are of this kind; and, therefore, emphatically said to be committed _against the Lord;_ see 1 Samuel 17:25. _Or hath deceived his neighbour,_ at the close of this verse, we should rather read, _hath defrauded his neighbour;_ see Malachi 3:5. Dr. Beaumont renders