PUBLIC-DOMAIN CHRISTIAN BOOK
The Pulpit Commentary — Leviticus
Frederick Meyrick [1827-1906] · 410,653 words · 472 reading sections
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fourth generation" (Exod. xxxiv. 5-7). In the Old Testament, then, God does not, by his Name, reveal his absolute nature, but his relation to man 68 the Supreme :Moral Governor of the world, whose characteristic in that government was omnipotence, uncontrolled by anything but his own will, but guided by meroy and justi…
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• The case before us was one of pure blasphemy. This reckless youth, the son of an Egyptian father, had blasphemed "the Name," and for this he was· stoned to death after those who heard the blasphemy had laid their hands on his head. I. LET US STABT WITH THE FUNDAHENTAL TBUTB THAT THE NAKE 011' GoD IS THE REVELATIO…
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But in rude ages it is eminently desirable that savage spirits should contemplate as a dead certainty getting as much as they give.1 Let us notice one or two points. I. Tm!: LAW OF RETALIATION, ADMINISTERED IN A JUllICIAL BPmIT, WAS IN TH!ll INTERESTS oF JUSTICE AND ORDER. Its principle is a sound one. 'l'he crimina…
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I. THE CRIME OF TBIS SON OF SnELOMITD. 1. It waa 'bTaapMming the God bf Iara•l. (1) We are not distinctly informed as to the particular form of this blasphemy. We are, however, told that this man, whose name is not given, was " the son of an Isre.elitish woman," that his father was an Egyptian, and that in striving wit…
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occasion for the enactment of other statutes (vers. 16-22). The story and the statutes 11uggest- L WHAT LAl!TING EVIL MAY AOORUE FROM. AN UNBOLT Al.LIA.NOE, Had the Israelitish woman not married an Egyptian (ver. 10), it is morally certain that she would not have been called upon to part with her son under these trag…
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IV. lMPABTIALITY. (Ver. 22.) • V. INBTRUOTIVENEBB. Law should not only decide individual case9, and bring down appropriate penalty on individual transgressors; it lhould also, by its embodiment or Divine principles, be a most effective teacher of truth, a constant instructor in righteous- ness. The law of the land sho…
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EXPOSITION. publio reading of God's Law (Deut. xxxi. CHAPTER XXV. 10-13). During the previous six years tha The BUhject of the sacred seasons is taken husbe.n<lmen had beeu well aware of the up again in this chapter, after the paren• coming sabbatical year, and would have laid thetical insertion of eh. :uiv. There r…
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together, that they have a1B11med that the If he became the slave of a non-Israelite, ha sabbatical year itaelf, that is, the forty- must be set free, not as before on the seventh ninth year, was the year of the jubilee. year of his slavery, but still at the jubilee. But this was olearly not the case. Twice in He had a…
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1'iM, the ·vine with its unpnmed tendrils, labour of their hands, if they strove to keep being likened t.o the N azarite with his un- his covenant and satisfy themselves with llhom locks. As to sowing and reaping, his grace." an exception was made with respect to Vere. 8, 9.-The word jubile (as it is the barley sown…
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of the ninth or fifty-flrst year, a.a the Tal- tative in the year of jubilee, and might mnd and robbins of every age have nnder- at any earlier time be reJeemed. The etood the law" (Keil). The qneetion, What words, Notwithr..a.ndillg tha oities of tha shall we eat 1 would present itself with Levites, should rather b…
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clothing (a method of evading the law totally dift'erent from the hopeless, helpless a.gainat usury) than that which had been state of the Greek or Roman slave, even with- Jent. The injunction was transgressed in out the positive oommand that he was to the time of Nehemiah, when "he rebuked be treated, not 118 a bondaa…
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II. IN THE NEW TESTAMENT. It is still accepted al! a fact. But: 1. A principle is laid down, which, like leaven leavening the whole i nmp, could not but cause its destruction. "Ye masters ••. your Master also" ( or, as it would be better translated, " your and their Master") "is in heaven; neither is there respect of p…
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Lord." He thus stamps the land as his, and had we the clear vision, we might see the "sign manual" of the Lord upon all the world. Il. THE FALLOW YEAR CHANGED AGRICULTURAL INTO PASTORAL LIFE. The people of necessity gave greater attention to the rearing and the tending of cattle. It is evident from ver. 7 that the …
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also the child~en, were l? ~ instructed in it. So that the national desire might very properly find its expression ID the words of the Psalm (cxiL 19), which celebrate& the Divine Law, "I am a stranger in the earth: hide not thy commandments from me." A pilgrim people in ex111lmporized tents applied themselves in the s…
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the Jews. In so doing, they shared in Jewish privileges, and had the advantage of Jewish training. This was compensation for the loss of their freedom. Desides, their considerate treatment was carefully secured by the Law of God. It was right, there- fore, that it should thus be unmistakably exhibited that other nat…
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J. T1111: BEVBNTB YEAB WAS A "SABBATH 011' THE LAND.n Then: 1. The eoi"l re- mained untilled. (1) In other years it was cwtomary to sow the grain after the Feast of lngathering, and the vines were pruned in the spring. While we are in this world the greater portion of our time should be occupied in its concerns. This i…
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Vers. 8-17.-The/ubilee. The sabbath of the seventh day is commemorative of the rest of God after the work of creation, and anticipative of the rest in heaven for 'his people after the world's great week of toil and sorrow (see Heh. iii., iv.).· · -The more> to impress these things upon us, to keep alive our gratitud…
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Vere. 23-34.-Redemption. This subject is intimately connected with that of the jubilee; and the redemption of the Law prefigured that of the gospel, which also stands intimately related to the glorious jubilee of the great future. In this light we have to consider- !. THE NA.TUBE OP' THE BEDEHPTTON. This we may view: …
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type of Christ. Bishop Patrick quotes a rabbi, who says, " This Redeemer is the Messiah, the Son of David." Job speaks of Messiah as his Redeemer (xix. 26). So is 'ie elsewhere termed in Scripture (see Isa. lix. 20; Rom, xi. 26). (2) To be qualified to redeem, Jesus became our Kinsman by taking up our nature. As any He…
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Vere. 1-7.-Divi11e discipline. This was certainly one of the most striking insti- tutions which God gave to Israel. It was, in a high degree, disciplinary. Rightly taken, it would engrave sacred truth on their minds more deeply and effectnally than either word or rite. It was calculated- I. To TEACB THEM THE TRUTH AS …
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No nation now can expect to enjoy such an institution as this; we must learn to dispense with such miraculous arrangements as that which ma,le the year of jubilee a possible thing to Israel (vers. 20-22). It is our national wisdom to bring about, by (1) wise and equal laws, and by (2) virtuous and godly lives, the ha…
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blessedness of doing his work, honouring his Name, and even hearing his holy will, the view of the heavenly land,-these will "put a new song into our mouth," a real gladness into our heart, the brightness and music of the "acceptable year" into our -Christian life.-0. Vers. 8-55.-Year of ju1n1ee: III. The blessed king…
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climax of rest. Proclaimed on Day of Atonement. Outcome of the original covenant. Specially soul-stirring and delightful, "waked up tht nation from the very centre of lts moral being." " All estates and conditions of the 1eople were permitted to feel the hallowed and refreshing influence of this most noble institutio…
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PHYSICAL WANTS. Work ie the fundamental necessity, the burden laid upon us by the declaration, "In the sweat of thy face thou shalt 1st bread." Mere idleness is dis- graceful. Yet by this command of the text God 68Strts that real ii a duty a., well a., toil. The one does indeed fit us for the other. Recreation is by no…
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to say, in its constitution than in actual observance or its conditions. Little alteration is needed to suit the injnnctions of this passage to modern circumstances. I. Gon's IIIIBV ANTS ABB so BY VIRTUE OF WHAT Hl!l HAS DONE FOR THEM:, " They are my servants which I brought forth out of the land of Egypt." Redempti…
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PART V. CONCLUDING EXHORTATION. EXPOSITION. and oil, and ye shall be satiefled therewith,• CHAPTER X.XVL and" yesball eat in plenty, and be satisfied;,. THE first two verses of this chnpter con- the clause, "I uriU gioe peaC6 in the land, tain a prohibition of idolatry, and a and ye shall lie do1D11, and none shall…
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causes thnt could be traced, they are none the less the effect of God's wrath upon his I peace, 11 And I will m11ke with them a oovcna.nt of nnd will cause the evil be11Sts to cease apostate people. out of the laud.... And thoy shall no more be n prey to the heathen, neither sh11ll the Confession of sin, recogn…
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tree.d the olives, but thou she.It not e.noint Romana (see Lam. ii. 20; lv.10; Josephus, t.hee with oil") . . . and ye shall be slain 'Bell. Jud.,' v. 9, 3; and the terrible case of before your enemies (as took ple.ce often Mary daughter of Eleazer, Josephus, 'Bell. in their after history, see J ndg. ii. 14 ; iii. J…
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Upon them that are left, thRt is, the sur- and _genuine repentance. They must re- Vi¥ing captives and exiles, I will aend a cognize not only that they have sinned but faintneu into their heartl,-so Ezek. xxi. 7, that their sufferings have been a pu~ish- " And every heart shall melt, and all hands ment for those sins a…
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;Ahab (for he hod the daughter of Ahab to wife): and be wrought that which was evil in the eyes of the Lord. . . . In his days the Edomitcs revolted . . . . Moreover the Lord stirred up against Jehoram the spirit of the Philistines, and of the Arabians that ·were near the Ethiopians: and they came up into Judah, and br…
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question, consequently, of the cc method of the Divine government" ia hereby raised. .And here let us remark- !. Goo's JUDGMENTS, WHETBEB BEWABDB OB PUNIBHMENTS, WEBE BXEOUTBD WITH BEOOMING LEISUBB A.ND DELIBERATION. It ia along the lines of natural law, as dis- tinguished from miracle, that he proposes to execute …
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w•nting; every man ha.a already received the due reward of his works; everything is already complete, and, therefore, there is nothing to be done in the next world. Or if, on the other hand, there were no punishment visited upon sin at all in this world, we might be inclined to say, Tush, God bath forgotten; he never i…
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No robber should trouble them. (3) From the hostility of animal,, Where population is reduced by wars and famines, beasts or prey prowl. (4) How the faithfulness of God has been verified in the history of his people I 3, Victory. (1) God puts the dread of them into their enemies. They fly before them, Witness the fl…
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seventy years, and during that time the land of Israel rested. Therefore the land restoo just as many years in the Babylonish Captivity as it should have rested sabbatbs if the Jews had observed the law relative to the sabbaths of the land." (2) The longer term or "seven times" thrice repeated (vers. 21, 24, 28) is …
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of him. Thie was the oase with the" golden calf" which Aaron made. The people resented their offerings to it in connect.ion with a" feast to the Lord" (Exod. xxxii. 6). f t is too great a mental labour to realize God's presence by pure thought and medita- tion; men crave a visible object which shall remind them of th…
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1mcl keep hie commandments, nnd do them" (ver. 3), they might reckon on (1) fertility in tho field (vere. 4, 6, 10); (2) sense of eecurity from without and distnrbance from within (safety and peace, vers. 6, 6); (3) victory in war (vers. 7, 8); ( 4) national growth (ver. 9); (6) God's presence with them (vers. 11, 12);…
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part is met by returning favour on his (Jer. iii. 22; Joel ii. 12-14; l11t1.. xliv. 22; Iv. 7). Let the prodigal son arise to return, and." while yet a great way off," the heavenly Father will run to meet and to welcome him (Luke xv.), IIL Goo's GOOD1'"ESS TO U8 WILL SEEM TO U8 TO VARY ACCORDING TO TBB REOTITUDB OF…
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Instructed people. Ae God "exalted that land unto heaven" in privileae and oppor- tunity, so he "brought it down to hell" in condemnation and doom. But when we remember with what retribution God visited the sins of the antediluvian world, of the cities of the plain, the Canaanite&, the great cities of Babylon and Ninev…
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Vcrs. 3-S.-Obedt"ence and rn-osperily. The connection between godly oonduot and material good may not seem to us so c1ose or so clearly discernible a.a that which is promised in these verses. Still,.the heart of the promise remains, and instances have never been wanting to prove that "godliness is profitable unto al…
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Ver. 11.-God dwelling amongst men. All possible methods were employed to attach the Israelites to the Law. Solemnity of its promulgation, judgment executed on transgressors, enticing promises and terrifying threats. Chief among inducements to obedience was the promise of the text. I. SETTING lJl' A TABERNACLE Dll'LIEB…
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whe.t " de!ICent must God feel H to btl to consort with cree.turee of such petty sel6sh e.ims e.nd uncultured w1tys I Only real pitying love, a desire to benefit e.nd raise these miserable objects, a vision of what it was possible for them to become by such fellow- ship with the Most High, could have invested men with …
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APPENDIX. EXPOSITION. to God, when he never would have vowed CHAPTER XXVII. money. Such vows were redeemable, and, THl!I :fl.neJ chapter, attached to the book o.s a rule, were redeemed, though there after the concluding exhortation, is a short were some exceptions, as in the case of treatise on persons (vers. 2-8), …
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henr of any a<X'umulntion of landod property the 1nm named; IC he did not, it became the in the hands of the priests from this source. property of the 8Bnctuuy. The words, the In the case of a field which WI\S not an priest shall value it, whether it be good or bad, should rather be rendered, the pried ceredit.ery …
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deemed, aold for the benefit of the 1anc- try (see Deut. xiii. 13; Josh. vi. 17)" tu11ry. (Wordsworth). Vere. 28, 29.-Wbatever is already cherem Vera. 30-32.-Tithes, like the cherem (a word here first used o.e a term well under- are introduced as thin.,.s well known'. stood), that is, devoted to God, whether Abraha…
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for a bnmt offering" (Judg. xi. 30, 31). What Jephthah appeared to contemplate as likely to meet him was either a non-sacrificial animal, which would then be handed over to the sanctuary (eh. xxvii. 11-13), or a sacrificial animal, which would be offered up. His daughter came under the first head (eh. :nvii. 9, 10). 8.…
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eonalraioed to dedicate either a person, an animal, or a piece of property unto CfoJ. But it may be highly inconvenient for the priests to accept of the dedicated articio at the to.bemacle. It may be much more convenient to receive, in lieu thereof, it money equivalent, and BO a scale of charges is here given, accordin…
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Antitype of all those anciently separated to God. Hence his dwelling at Nazareth was in the order of providence, and in fulfilment of prophecy, viz. that he should be callod a. Nazarene (Matt. ii. 23). 3. & are true Ohristiana. <1) The disciples of Jesus who were first called "Christians" at Antioch, were also distm…
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dipped In vermilion or red ochre. The mothers of those Iambs or calves stood without, cmd as the young ones passed out, when the tenth came he touched it with the colour, and this was received as the legitimate tithe." (2) Here note the vicarious principle. When the tenth was taken, nine went free. Christ is our Tenth …
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Ver. 34.-The Law and the gospel. 1. It may be rightly said that true religion is essentially the same everywhere and at all times. Whithersoever and wbensoever we look, we shall find the same cardinal elements-the fear of God, the love of God, respect for our own spiritual nature, regard for the rights and claims of…
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CHAPTER L TRBHII P.1.011 fREIIB PA.GB Honouring God with our Firstfruits ... 28 The Sacrificial System 4 Mediate and Immediate Presentation 20 The Burnt 0.lfering ... 5 The Salt of the Covenant ... 30 Mediation .. , 6 The Offering of Daily Life 31 Entire Consecration, as Illustrated in The Minchah, a Type of Christ 32 …
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TTIRMW PAGB TH'Jl:ME PAGH A Time for Publicity ... ... 131 Instruction as well as Sacrifke ... 166 The Human and Divine Priestbood- The Spirit of Obedience 167 Oontrost 132 That which is Left to u11 ... Wl Tho Huml\n and Divine Priesthood- Ministers to be Examples of Purity ... 168 Comparison 132 Spiritual Apparel 13…
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'1'11111111 PAGR TRIIJlll PAO ■ The Oleaneing of Sin ae Illuetre.ted in Atoning Death ... 208 the Oleaneiug of the Leper 218 Sa.notity of Anime.l Life ,.. ,., 208 Reetomtion Suggestions ... ... 219 The Se.nctity of the Atoning Blood ... 209 Readmieeion 220 Final Ritea of Readmiaaion 221 CHAPTER XVIII. Divine Coneidere…
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