Leviticus 11

(2.) God hates them. In the law the cormorant was unclean (Leviticus 11:17), because a thievish devouring creature, a bird of prey, by which God showed his hatred of this sin. (3.) The thief is a terror to himself, he is always in fear.

Settling on the lees, is an emblem of a dull, inactive soul. The snail by reason of its slow motion was reckoned among the unclean (Leviticus 11:30). A slothful man hides his hand in his bosom (Proverbs 19:24), he is loath to pull it out, though it be to lay hold on a crown: Non…

They were secondary laws invented by the curiosity of men, as if the plain command of God were not enough. God commanded that those who had contracted any defilement should wash themselves, (Leviticus 11:25, 28;) and this extended to cups, and pots, and raiment, and other articl…

They are like the lilies, which toil not, neither do they spin. The snail by reason of its slow motion, was reckoned among the unclean (Leviticus 11:30). Saint Austin calls idleness the burial of a man alive.

Whatever he does in religion, he does to purpose. Under the law, God rejected the snail and the ass (Leviticus 11:30; Exodus 13:13). And under the gospel, he allows no sluggish lazy professor (1 Timothy 5:11, 13).

Be perfect as your heavenly Father is perfect, says our Savior. And here the Apostle, citing out of the Law: be holy for I am holy (Leviticus 11:44) — law and Gospel agree in this. And as children that resemble their fathers as they grow up in years, they grow more like them — t…

We read in the law that God would not have the donkey offered in sacrifice; he hates a dull temper of soul. The snail was accounted unclean (Leviticus 11:30); the slow-paced Christian will be caught in default at last and miss the prize. It reproves those who begin the race of C…

Not that anything can be accepted that is not of faith; but I speak this to show you how insignificant the profession of Talkative will be at that day. Faithful: This brings to my mind that of Moses, by which he describes the beast that is clean (Leviticus 11; Deuteronomy 14). H…

First, faith draws the heart of a Christian to live in some warrantable calling; as soon as ever a man begins to look towards God, and the ways of his grace, he will not rest, till he find out some warrantable calling and employment: an instance you have in the Prodigal son, tha…

For the first, the creature is then sanctified, when the curse and poison which sin brought upon it is removed, when we can use the creature with a clean conscience, and with assurance of a renewed and comfortable estate in them. It is an allusion to legal purifications and diff…