The Pulpit Commentary — Deuteronomy — Section 223

1 Kings viii. 29), a.ad which is consequently offerings, 9.8 e.a. the peace offering, "" in to be rego.rded e.s his ho.bitation or dwelling- the case of the firstling offering the whol9 plo.ce. Hence the temple e.t ,Jerusalem was flesh shall be the priest's; anrJ thus taken, in Io.ter times known o.s the place of the the passo.ge presents 11.n un'1uestionablo Nnme of Jehovo.h (Isa.. xviii. 7), the dwell- discrepancy to the.t in Deuteronomy. But ing-plo.ca of his glory (Ps. xxvi. 8). But probably the pass11ge is not to be so taken. he is the God of the whole eo.rth, o.nd there- The particle translated "as" (~) not un- fore, wherever ha is pleo.sed to reveo.l him- frequently occurs in the sense of'' =rding self, in who.tever place he mo.kes his No.me to, after the manner of," implying conformity to be known, there he is to be worshipped. to some rule or model (Gen. xliv. 2; Exod. 'fhere is no reference in this passo.ge to the xxi. 9; xxxi:x. 8; Lev. v. I O; Numb. viii. temple o.t Jerusalem specio.lly, o.s some have 4; ix. 3; xxix. 18; Pa. vii. 18; Zech. ii. 10 supposed; whi>t is here enjoined is only B [6], et.c.). The passage, therefore, may be pmcticBl applice.tion of the Divine promise, rendered thus: And the fleah of them ahalt tho.t in all ple.ces where God would record thw take after the manner ( or aceordin') to his Name, there he would come to bless his the rule), of the wave breast, etc., i.e. not the people (Exod. xx. 24): The reference here, whole ef it, but only these parts. So the therefore, is quite general, o.nd e.pplies to LXX. seeni to have taken the passage: Kai e.ny place where, by the Divine appointment, 'Ta 1<pEa. Etr-ra., <To,, ,ca.8CI. ,ca.l TO (1'T'70llviov -roV the to.bemacle might be set up and the 1.-,81µ.a:ros' Kcu Ka:ra. .,-bv f',paxiova. .,-bv lie!,bv worship of Jehovah instituted. Unto his uo, fr.,-a,. Of some of the offerings the he.bite.tion shall ye seek. To seek to e.ny whole was received by the priest, as in the ple.ce mee.ns, prime.rily, to resort to it, to case of the sin offering and t, espass offering frequent it (cf. 2 Chron. i. 5), but with the (Lev. vi. 25, etc.; vii. 1, etc.); while of implied purpose of inquiring there for some- others only certain portions, viz. the wave thing, e.s for responses or ore.oles, when the breast and the heave shoulder, were given ple.ce resorted to we.a the.t in which God to him, as iu the case of the peace offering he.d put his Name. (Lev. vii. 28, etc.). The purport of the law Ver. 6.-To the appoiute.d place all their in Numb. :xviii. 18 is that, in respect of the sacrificial gifts e.nd offerings were to be firstling offering, the allotment to the priest brought, e.nd there they were to keep their shall be e.fter the same manner as in the holy feasts. The gifts are cle.ssified in peace offering. There is thus no discrepancy groups. I. Burnt offerings and ea.orifices, between the two passages. The animal the two principal kinds of altar offerings, belonged originally to the offerer; when he with which meal offerings and drink offer- brought it before the Lord pa.rt of it was ings were united (Numb. xv. 4, etc.). 2. consumed on the altar, po.rt of it wa.s as- Tithes and heave offerings (cf. Lev. xxvii. signed to the priest, and the rest, us a 30-33; Numb. xviii. 21-24). The heave ma.tter of course, remained with himself. offerings are described ns of your hand, The 1:i.w in Numbers, addressed to the e.ither because offered by the offerer's own priest, intimates wha.t he might claim as his hand or to indico.te such gifts as were made portion; the lo.w in Deuteronomy, where off-h~nd (so to speak), voluntary offerings the people are addressed, directs them how made in addition to the legal offerings from to use the portion that remained with them, an immediate impulse of grateful emotion. 3, It may be added that, even supposing that Vows and freewill offerings, sacrifices which all the :11.esh wus given to the priest, yet, us were offered in consequence of__vows or ~f it had to be consumed on the day in which spontaneous impulse (of. Lev. vn. 16; xx.11. tho sacrifice wus offereJ, and as every clean 21; xxiii. 3B; Numb. xv. 3; xxix. 39). 4. person in the house might partake of it, it Firetlings of their herds and of their :11.ooks is almost certain that the offerer would, as (cf. Exod. xiii. 2, 12, ete.; Numb. xviii. 15, 11 matter of course, shllTO in tbe meal, as etc.). was usual in the case of sacrificial meals. Ver. 7.-And there ye shell eat before tne Bajoioe in all that ye put your h~d unto; Lord. The injunction here nud in ver. 17, enjoy who.tever your hand may gam, what- respecting the eating by the offerer of the ever you may earn, all the good which the firstlings of his :II.oaks nnd herds, appears Lord may give you (cf. ver. 1B; xv. 10: to be inconsistent with the injunction in :uill. !O: xxvtiL 8, 20). The phro.se is Numb. :xviii. 18. There it seems as if the peculiar to Deuteronomy; but comp. Gen. whole of the :11.esh wus to be given to the ill. 22 : Isa. xi. 14. priest, "And the :11.esh of them shall be Vere. B-10.-ln the wilderness, while thine.[the priest'sl, us the wave breast and leading 11 nomadic life, no certain place as the 1·i<>ht shoulder 111"6 thine." This may could be o.ppointed to them for the obser- be take; to mean th11t just os the wave vance of sacred rites; each man diJ. in that breC1st and the right shoulder a.re the per- matter as suited his own convenience, But quisites or the priests in the cnse of other after they "!ere settled in Cil.llwm it should  THE BOOK OF DEtJTtRONOM\I. ten. xn. 1-32.