The Pulpit Commentary — Leviticus — Section 325

verse hy the e.llegation the.t the high priest's 11, position simil11,r to th11,t of the bee.then, dress was me.de of mixed materials, is met that is, unclean, from not h11,ving been yet by the e.nswer the.t, if it were of mixed sanctified by the offering of the firstfruite. materie.ls (which ie ancertain, for wool is not This sanctification takes plBCe in the fourth mentioned in Exod. xxviii., nor ie it quite year. determined that shesh means linen), the VerB. 26-28.-After 11, repetition or the mixture was not such a.a ie here forbidden. Cundamental ceremonial 111,w against eating The more.I meaning of the whole of this things which have the blood in them (the injunction ie exhibited in the following LXX. rendering, i1rl -rwv opl,,w, "upon the passages from the New Testament, "Ye mountains," arises from a mistaken reading) cannot drink the cup of the Lord, and the follow prohibitions (1) to nae enohaotmeot; cup of devils" (1 Cor. x. 21). "Be ye not literally, u, whisper or mutter after holding uneque.lly yoked together with unbelievers: ccnnmunication with 1erpents (if the word for what fellowship hath righteousness with nichesh be derived from nachash, 11, serpent); unrighteousness? and whe.t communion hath (2) to observe times, or rather, BCCOrding to light with darkness? and whe.t concord hath 11, more probable etymology, eurcise the e,,il Christ with Belie.I? or what part bath he eye; (3) to round the oomers of your heads, that believeth with e.n infidel? and what th11,t is, nee 11, sort of tonsare, e.s was done agreement he.th the temple of God with by some AJ-11,bie.o tribes (Herod., iii. 3) in idols?" (2 Cor. vi. 1i--16). "He oannot love honour of their god OrotBl, 11,nd by the the Lord Jesus with hishee.rt," says Hooker, !ere.elites 11,e 11, form of mourning (Deut. xiv. " who lendeth one ear to his apostles and I; Isa. xiii. 12); (4) to mar the oomera of another to false teacherB, and who can brook thy beard, 11, fashion of mourning which e.o- to see a mingle-mangle of religion and su- compe.nied the tonsure of the head (see eh. perstition" (' Berm.' v. 7, quoted by Words- xxi. 5 ; Isa. xv. 2 ; J t:r. xl viii. 37); (5) to worth). make 11,ny outtinga in your :flesh for the dead, Vere. 20-22.-A distinction is drawn 11,norher form of mourning, aseociBted with between adultery with e. free woman, or a the two previously mentioned practices (see betrothed free virgin, which was punish- eh. xxi. 5; Dent. xiv. I; Jer. xvi.6; xli.3; able with dee.th (eh. xx. 20; Deut. xxii. 23), xlviii. 37); (6) to print any markl upon you, and with e. slave betrothed to another man tho.t is, tattoo themselves in memory of the (probo.bly a slave also). In the lo.tter case e. dead. All these oustome were anbecomiog lesser punishment, no doubt that of scourg- the dignity of God's people, and had been ing (according to the Mishoe. to the extent connected with ido]11,trous practices. of forty stripes), was to be inflicted on one Ver. 29.-Do not prostitute thy daughter. or both, according to the circumstaooes of This ie 11, peremptory prohibition, applying the case. The words, she shall be aoourged, to every Jewish mo.iden, introduced in this should be tmusle.ted, there shall be investi- place with 11, primary rel11,tion to the gation, followed, presumably, by the punish- s11,notifico.tion of lust by the dedication of ment of scourging, for both parties if both young girls 11,t some bee.then temples; hut by were guilty, for one if the woman was no meo.ns confined in its application to unwilling. The man ie afterwards to offer such practices. All legal ea.notion of the e. trespass offering. As the offence ho.a been sin of prostitution is forbidden, for whatever o. wrong e.e well e.s e. sin, his offering is to purpose it mo.y be given; and the certain be e. trespass offering (see on eh. v. 14). In result of such so.notion is indioo.ted in the this OBSe the fine of one-fifth could not be fino.l words of the verse, lest the land ta.ll to inflicted, as the wrong done could not be whoredom, e.nd the le.nd beoome full of estimated by money, and the cost of the ro.m wiokedoesa (of. Deut. x.xiii. 17). seems to be regarded e.s the .required so.tis- Ver. 30.-The commo.nd in this verse fe.ction. No mention is made of de.ma.gee to differs from tho.t in ver. 3 by adding the be paid to the man to whom the slave-girl injunction to reveronoe my aanotnary t.o was betrothed, probably because he was him- that requiring the obeerVBnce of the self e. slave, and had not juridical rights so.bbo.th. It is 11, mo.tter of experience that o.go.inet a freeman. where the s11,bbo.th is not kept, God's sano- VerB. 23-25.-The eating of the fruit of tuary is not reverencod, 11,nd that that young trees by their owners for five years is reverence increases or falls 11,we.y o.ooording forbidden, on the principle that such fruit is as tho obligation of the se.bbo.tioal law, unoleo.o until it has been sanctified by the whether in its Jewish form or its ChristiBn offering of a crop e.s firstfruits to the Lord for form, be more or less recognized. The the use of the servants of the tabernacle, o.nd so.bbatical ordin11,noe is necesso.ry e.s 11, pre- a full crop is not to be expected until the vious condition of religious worship. With- fourth year from the time tho.t the trees out it, the business 11,nd pleasure of the world were planted. The fruit is e.t first to be e.ro too strong to give way to the dem1m,ls counted u nnairoumoilled, being regarded in upon time made by the st.o.tPd service of LEVITICUB. u  THE BOOK OF LEVITICUS. [cH. XIX. 1-37.