PUBLIC-DOMAIN CHRISTIAN BOOK
The Pulpit Commentary — Leviticus
Frederick Meyrick [1827-1906] · 410,653 words · 472 reading sections
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home by the Spirit of Christ. 2. W7im the case WIUI dubious judgment was defen-ed. (1) Meanwhile the suspecte~ pers?n was "shut up" (vers. 4, 21, 81) that opportunity might be given for the mantfesta.tion of the symptoms. So are sinners "shut up" by the Law to the faith of the gospel (see Rom. xi. 82, margin; Gal. iii.…
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e.re not sufficiently explained by s11nitary considerations. The Jews saw in the leper 1. s_y;'Dbol of the sinner visited with the displeasure of God. His was a stroke of em1t1ng (" plague of leprosy") from the hand of Jehovah, which made him "utterly unclean" (ver. 44). 'l'he instructions of this chapter may convey to…
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it is felt to be no time for ordinary conversation, much less for frivolous gossip, though under such a. veil anxiety is often hid. CoNcLusroN. By the Law was the knowledge of sin, but by the gospel is proclaimed its remedy, forgiYeuess and sanctification through Christ. 'l'he priest was not depen- dent upon his ow…
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they regarded leprosy as a visitation from God, and considered it incurable by human art. Sin is incurable by mere human methods. Rules for the regulation of human conduct; pledges or vows of abstinence from particular temptation& ; parental, magis- terial, social vigilance; penalties inflicted by ourself or by others …
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Ver. 8.-0onviction of sin. "And the priest shall look on him, and pronounce him unclean." In the Hebrew commonwealth: 1. There were those who were reasonably suspected of leprosy, i.e. of "uncleanness." 2. It was a matter of the gravest con- sequence to know whether these suspicions were well founded or not. For asc…
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because they are superficial, strike the eye, provoke general remark, and stand in th& way of effective service. 1. It is right that those who observe them in others should remember that they are O'Tlly blemishes, and nothing more; detracting in some degree from " the beauty of holiness," but not inconsistent with r…
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is bound to exclude from town and city those who endanger its moral■• The opium- scller, as such, is righteously exclu~e~; the man who would sell poisons without restriction is disallowed; and an unlimited number of dramshops, with their terrible enticements, is (or, surely, should be) prohibited. A community has th…
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Vere. 47-59.-0n purity of garments. There are passages in difTerent parts of Holy Scripture which it is necessary to put together in order to get a comprehensive view of what only at first sight appears to be a slight subject. I. The first result of the Fa.II was a consciousness of sin on the part of Adam and Eve, whi…
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HOMILIES BY VARIOUS AUTHORS. Vers. 47-59.-Impure surroundings. Our garments are our immediate surround- ings, and there may be in them as well as in ourselves that which is offensive and "unclean." There was an impurity in the garment as well as in the human body against which the Law provided. 'l'he classing of cloth…
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cloudy day, nor in the glare of midday, and Ver. 7.-And he shall sprinkle upon him that t.be priest must have good eyesight, th&t is to be oleanaed from the leprosy seven and only determine one case at a time: nor times. It is not oertRin whether the seveu was he nllowed to pronounce judgment on sprinklings were me.…
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remnant of his former defilement that can to bring him the offerings and service which be removed, the first stage of his purifica- he would have brought he.d he not been tion is over. He is restored to the camp, but excloded from the camp. But this is a not yet to the sauotuary, nor to his position very forced expl…
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lllishna desoribes the ooremony IUl followe :- dipping each time he sprinkles. He goes " The leper stands before t~e tres~ off~r- before the leper, and on the spot where he ing, Jays his hl\nd upon 1t and kill~ 1t. had put the blood he puts the oil, as it Is Two priests catch up the blood one m a written, 'Upon the …
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guided by Bt. Paul, shuts out from its fold one who has been guilty of gross immorality (1 Cor. v.) or of depraving the faith (1 Tim. i. 20), and continues obstinate in his sin. 3. They are used for the purpose of readmission, when the Church has become satisfied that the sinner whom she had excluded from her fold h…
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HOMILIES BY VARIOUS AUTHORS. TM cleansing of ,in as illustrated in the cleansing of the leper. Ch. xiv.; cf. 2 Kings v.; Matt. viii. 1-4; Luke v.. 12-16. We have seen the possibility of a cure of leprosy in the directions for its diagnosis given to the priests. The cured leper bad also to be cleansed before admitte…
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been, Indeed, said that the live bird here is parallel to the live goat on the Day of Atonement, and should rather be supposed to carry the leper's sin away. But, inasmuch as the live bird here receives a similar baptism to the h1per himself, the first interpreta- tion is preferable. Living water and blood, therefore,…
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II. THE CONSIDERATION WE OWE TO OUR FELLOW-HEN. In virtue of the Divine precept the leper might not enter human Rociety. But this was not the only ground of exclusion ; by reason of the character of his me.lady he was wholly unfit to enter. Once exilerl, therefore, he might not return until every guarantee had been giv…
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science. We who seek to be cleansed from all iniquity and condernnation, must ourselves personally apply for mercy through the shed blood of the Redeemer. By an act of living faith we must bathe in the "fountain opened for sin and for uncleanness." Ill PERSONAL PUTTING AWAY OF DEFILEMENT, The leper was to "wash his cl…
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should be with hearts overflowing with holy gratitu<le and sacred joy that we present ourselves before him. IV. WITH A SEKSE OF GoD'B FULL ACCEPTANCE OF OUR WHOLE HEART AND LIFE, There was one very significant ceremony through which the leper who was being cleansed had to pass : the priest was to put some of the bl…
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Vere. 1-20.-Thoroogh purification. Spiritual disease is often neglected by pel'llOna who are extremely anxious respecting some disease of the physical frame. For the former they seek no remedy, and display no concern as to its ultimate issue, whereas the latter is view~d with un~easing distress. Would that every spi…
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wiped out; a cle_an t~blet ma:ks the returned prodigal's position, 4. The purification must be coextensive with the disease. Leprosy affec_ted the whole man; hence the tips of the ear, the hand, and the foot must be touched with the atoning blood that all parts may be redeemed from cor:uption. All sphe~es of activit…
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purifying Spirit of God. Blood and water together flowed from the opened side of Jesus (see John xix. 34, 35; 1 John v. 6, 8). The infinitely superior virtue of the blood of Christ lay in that, being God as well as man, he was able to offer himself through the eternal Spirit without spot (Heb. ix. 13, 14). (2) The" liv…
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with the children of Israel as a fellow-citizen. (2) Entering the sanctuary, he came into Church recognition. For the court of the priests represented the Church in the visible part (see on eh. viii. 10-12). This was on the eighth day which in the wc>ek, corresponds with the first day, a day so memorable for great e…
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EXPOSITION. Tm: LEPROSY OP A HOUSE, AND 1TB ple.ced at the end, and dealt with after the OLEANSING (vere. 33-53). The subject of rest of the subject has been discussed, being appended to the law of cleansing the leper, leprosy in houses must be regarded from instead of preceding it. And I put the the same point of vi…
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HOMILETICS. Vers. 33-53.-On uncleanness in houses. There are two metaphors commonly used in Holy Scripture for designating God's covenant people. They a.re (1) God's household ; (2) God's house. I. GoD's HOUSEHOLD. As the l1ousehold of God the Father," of whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named" (Eph. i…
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it; "for the Lord thy God walketh in the midst of the camp, to deliver thee, and to give up thine enemies before thee ; therefore shall thy camp be holy : that he see no unclean thing in thee, and tum away from thee" (Deut. xxiii. 14). If the former be found, "the Holy Spirit of God" will be "grieved" (Eph. iv. 30), an…
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Vers. 83-53.-0lea1Ming the corrupt house. That the Divine Lawgiver should, in this tabernacle period of Israel's history, anticipate a time when their future houses would be affected by some disorder similar to leprosy in the human skin, and that he should direct a treatment of such houses closely corresponding with…
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Scripture, wbe.t God permits is often represented as bis dcing; e.nd evils that Satan inflicts me.y require the power of God to remove. I. WHAT ABE WE TO UNDERSTAND BY THE HOUSE? 1. There is the obvious literal meaning. It is e.n ordinary habitation (differing, indeed, from the tents in which the Israelites sojourned …
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EXPOSITION. CHAPTER XV. issue-that of ordinary menstruation (cf. RUNNING ISSUES FROM THE Hlll1AN BODY. cha. xii. 2 ; xx. 18). These are the fourth canse of ceremonial Vers. 25-30.-The fifth case of au issue -that of excessive menstruation, or men- uncleanness. We are not to look for a moral struation occurring at th…
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HOMILIES BY VARIOUS AUTHORS. &cret sins. Ch. xv.; cf. Ps. xix. 12; 1 Tim. i. 13. We have already had occasion to discern as a clear lesson of the old ritual that sin is a nature. The old law did not confine itself to overt acts, but insisted on " sins of ignorance" being regarded as elements of guilt (cf. eh. iv.). Th…
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man-we ha,:e found sin in its last form. But we are mistaken. Closer thinkinrr, 0 and what is still better, a deeper experience, will disclose to us a depth in our souls lower than that in which volitions occur, and a form of sin in that d1,pth, and to the bottom of it very different from the sin of single volitions. …
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Mark. vii, 20-23; Jas. i. 21). (3) Or if the blood, which is the life, flow away from the body, that also is a fitting emblem of sin which is spiritual death. Therefore the woman who has an issue of blood is accounted unclean, as being in that condition in which the atreams of the fountain of life are diverted from …
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I. 'fHAT PERSONAL PURITY WAS AND 18 A MATTER OF THE VERY GREATEST UON• SEQUENCE IN THE SIGHT OF Goo. Into the relation of the sexes, and into the thouahts, words, and actions which belong to that relation, sin has introduced confusion° and degradation. That which should have been the source of nothing but pure and ho…
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the most e888ntial characteristic of the Day thus visibly manifested (see 1 Kings viii. in the judgment of the legislator is that of I0_-;-12), and not, BB they _have strangely been its serving BB the occasion and the means of m1smterpreted, to the cloud of smoke raised "making an atonement for the holy sanctuary, by t…
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Daniel, the angel of God is clothed in liftffl mercy-seat and seven times before it. O. He (Ezek. ix. 2, 3, 11; x. 2, 6, 7; Dan. x. 5; came out again into the court, and killed the xii. 6, 7). And the colour of the angelic goat on which the lot for sacrifice had fallen. raiment is described in the Gospels 118 whit.e…
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, .. and make an atonement for himself, and summarily rejected. If II localized spot for his home. The first step is an expiatory were meant, that spot would have been left offering to r~concile the officiating priest behind by a people constantly on the move. 11nd the remamder of the priestly house to The second hypot…
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is altogether alien from the spirit of the which were conveyed away and lost in rest of the Mosaic institutions. Where else the depths of the wilderness, whence there is there anything like it? 4. The goat is was no return. Cf. Ps. oiii. 12 "As far presented and offered to Jehovah equally as the east is from the wes…
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of his 11ons, and prevented from coagulating the mercy seat eastward, that is, on the by being kept in motion. front of the ark beneath the Presence en- Vere. 12, 13.-This is the first entry or throned upon the mercy seat, and shrouded the high priest into the holy of holies. by the smoke of the incense ; and before H…
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sta.11ding in front of the tabem&ele, not the wrought full atonement or covering of sine: altnr ofinoell88, as has been supposed by some but in order to impress upon the mind of -and shall take of the blood of the bullook, the nation a joyful sense of entire libero.tion Rnd of the blood of the goat, and put it upon …
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Then he went book into the tabernacle of fast beg11n on the evening of the ninth day, the congregation (not into the holy of holiee), and ended on the evening of the tenth, when nnd, ns all the special atoning and purifying it wns succeeded by general feasting. During services of the de.y were now over, he there the…
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HOMILETICS. Vers. 1-28.-Union and communion with God is that which the undepraved heart of man most longs for, and which religion is especially intended to bring about. That this may be effected, the barrier,of sin, and of that which represents sin-ceremonial uncleanness-must be broken down. If sin and uncleanness can…
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the whole family of man, and is made effective to each individual by bis "belief" "in tbo Word of truth," and his being "sealed" in baptism" with the Holy Spirit of promise" {Eph. i. 13). The spiritual bathing, and clothing in white garments, which are now the privileges of every Christian, derive their sacramental for…
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Vers. 1-34.-.77ie great Day of .Atonement (vere. 29-34). One day In the year 11et apart to the most solemn representation possible of the two facts-the sin- fulness of man, the righteous love of God. Atonement underlying the whole of the ceremonial Law, but the insufficiency of the daily sacrifices, set forth by the…
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and the true mediation were yet to come. The ministry of Christ was a ~feet offering of man to God, in his active and passive obedience, and a perfect revelation and iusuranee of DivinefavO'lllr to man; in the facts of hia ea1-thly life, promising healing and restoration for human woes, and life from the dead; in th…
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Ver. 81.-" .A sahbath of rest." " Ye shall afflict your souls." The true penitence is the true peace. The ",sabbath " represents the joyful acceptance of the creature, and his entrance into the Divine satisfaction. The Lord rested, and he invites man to rest with him. Sin is the only obstacle to that reconciliation and…
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ple.y of intercession and appeal, and remember that, while it is a God of justice who is se.tisfied, he proves himself in the transaction a God of grace. III. AFTEB THE INCENSE THERE 18 BROUGHT IN Tllli BLOOD, Jl'IR8T 01" HIS OWN sm OFFERING, AND TllEN OF THE PEOPLE'S. The blood of Jesus Christ is symbolized by both, …
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Vers.1-4.-.The high :priest on the Day of .At011ement. 'l'he Jewish high priest was an eminent type of Christ. He was this on ordinary occasions of his ministry in respect to which Jesus is called "the High Priest of our profession" (Heb. iii.' 1). But he was especially so upon this great occasion of his entrance in…
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his glory" after his "sufferings" were "finished" (Luke xxiv. 26)? (3) The white robes represented the glorious body of his resurrection (see 1 Tim. vi. 14-16; Heb. ix. 24, 25). And a specimen of the quality of these ganr>ents was given on the mount of transfiguration, when the light of his glory was so whit,1 that no …
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56; John xvi. 32) I No one cculd help Jesus in his great work of atonement. 2. TM sacrifice of th~ two goats now claims attention. (1) Two are brought, to foreshadow what one could not adequately, viz. that one part only of the compound person of Christ could die, while both parts were necessary for his making atone…
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Christ (Jude 24). 2. it was a general ezpiatwn,, (1) It occurred but once in the year. lt was to atone for iniquities, transgressions, and sins, which, through igno- rance, inadvertency, or perhaps neglect, had not been atoned for by ordinary sacrifices. Christ not only atones for particular sins, but for sin itself. (…
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purifier who bad oonHtantly to cleanse himself, pointed to the advent of One who should have no need to offer up yearly sacrifice on his own account, whose purity should be real, not merely ceremonial and symbolical. IT. THE CEREMONY ENJOINED. 1. The attire. The gorgeous clothing of colour, gold, bells, and pomegra…
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mingles with the holiest of men and their deeds, with the holiest things and places, Defilement attaches to our highest acts of worship, to our best thoughts and prayers. The tabernacle needed cleansing because of the "uncleanness" of the people (ver, 16) among whom it was situated. The noblest men receive some degree …
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The surgeon's lance may have pained us, but now we are tranquil through the relief afforded.-S. R. A. Vers. 1, 2.-,The ~ril of J!rivilei,e. Was it, then, necessary to contemplate the possi- bility of Aarons dymg at his post? Was he, the chosen servant of God, who had been so solemnly inducted into his office (chs. v…
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aid. He might not deviate In e.ny particular from the instructions which came fl'0m heaven. 11 Aaron shall" is the continually recurring strain; almost every other verse contains this formula; departure from direction was utter failure in his work and death to himself (ver. 2). 2, Aaron divested himself of his rich att…
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hath borne onr griefs, and carried our sorrows; . . . he was wounded for our trans- gressions, he was bruised for our iniquities," etc. (Isa. !iii. 4, 6; 1 Pet. ii. 24). JI, THAT THE SACRIFICE OF CHRIST AVAILS TO REMOVE COMPLETELY ALL CONDEMNA• TION. When the children of Israel saw the live goat, over whose head the…
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observe (1) the last day or the old year, (2) the first day or the new year, (3) the anniversary or their birthday, or (4) the anniversary of the day which has the most hallowed associations to their mind,-the day of religious decision or that of reception into the visible Church of Christ. III. THAT THERE IB A TWOFOL…
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ing of domestio animals, difiloult to carry OHAPTER XVII. out in any case, woulrl become impossible to This chapter finds its natural place here obey after the camp had been expanded .as the supplement of all that has gone before. into a nation, and it is therefore supposed The first pa.rt of the book contains the …
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Probably the so.cred writer nees it 811 a lesa (see 2 Chron. :d. 15: Illa. xiii. 21: n:xiv. H; sncred term, and therefore more suitable to where the word occurs). It is generally sup- se.orifices offered to the spirits of the fields posed that the Israelites borrowed their wor- and woods. H ordino.ry slaughtering were …
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gression, God will take into his own hands is repeated in a different connexion in the punishment of tho offenders; not only ver. H. is he to be cat off or excommunicated by Vers. 13, H:.-Negatively, it has been politiCRI o~ ecclesia_stical auth~rity, but God ordered tho.t blood shall not be eaten; posi• himseU wil…
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Il. THE TABERNACLE OR TEMPLE WAS THE EFFECTIVE SIGN OF, UNITY TO TIIE JEWS BECAUSE IT CONTAINED THE ABK. The ark was the visible symbol of the presence of God among his chosen people. Therefore the hearts of the people went out towards the sanctuary with adoration and love. Therefore all the sacrificial rites had to be…
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The beautiful way the Lord secured his own recognition as the bountiful Giver was by enacting that blood, since it is the means used in atonement, must be devoted to no meaner use. Hence it was to be carefully put away, either by the priest at the taber- nacle, or by the huntsman in the dust of the wilderness, and the …
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