Leviticus 17

They sacrificed to devils, not to God; to new gods. These new gods were old devils (Leviticus 17:7). And they shall no more offer their sacrifices to devils; the Hebrew word Lashegnirim, is the Hairy Ones, because the devils were hairy, and appeared in the forms of satyrs and go…

It was not to be eaten while it was yet hot and warm in the flesh, which prohibition God gave to prevent that savage custom which yet afterwards got ground among mankind, of eating flesh like ravenous beasts while the blood was yet warm in it. Under the Law it was forbidden, bec…

(2) They allow of no use of the blood in sacrifices, but only as to the carrying of it into the Holy Place; which is expressly contradictory to the main end of the institution of Expiatory Sacrifices. For it was that by their blood atonement should be made on the Altar (Leviticu…

And it is the Blood of these Bulls and Goats which is proposed as the first way or means of the Expiation of Sin, and Purification under the Law. For it was by their Blood, and that as offered at the Altar, that Atonement was made (Leviticus 17:11). Purification was also made th…

(3) It is an useless observation, that the Apostle in comparing the sacrifice of Christ with the legal victims, does (as it is said) carefully avoid the saying that he offered his blood. For in those legal sacrifices the beasts themselves were always said to be offered, although…

For the oblation consisted principally in the atonement made by the blood at the Altar of burnt-offerings. It was given and appointed for that end, to make atonement with it at that Altar, as is expresly affirmed (Leviticus 17:11). After this, it was sprinkled for purification.

For there is no man that lives, and sins not. And on many occasions sin abounded in that state of the Church, wherein light and grace were but sparingly dispensed, in comparison of the times of the New Covenant: therefore God in his mercy and patience provided, that by sacred gi…

Therefore the words as they do not exclude the annual sacrifice of the High-Priest, so they include the daily and occasional sacrifices of all the other Priests; for these offerings of blood were also types of the sacrifice and Offering of Christ. For all sacrifices by blood wer…

(2) Respect is had to the sacrifice and offering of blood under the Law. The reason why God gave the People the blood to make atonement on the Altar, was, because the life of the flesh was in it (Leviticus 17:11, 14). So was the life of Christ in his blood, by the shedding where…

The curse of the law was, that he that sinned should die; but whereas there is no man that lives and sins not, God had provided that there should be a testification of the remission of sins, and that the curse of the law should not be immediately executed on all that sinned. Thi…

For by the blood of bulls and goats, he intends all the sacrifices of the Law: now if it be impossible that they should take away sin, for what end then were they appointed? Especially, considering that in the institution of them, God told the Church that he had given the blood…

2. If a parent in Israel was for his sin cut off from his people, were the children that he left behind him therefore excluded from the Commonwealth of Israel? To be sure, in crimes capitally punished (of which cutting off from their people is sometimes plainly meant, Exodus 31:…

All sins do, as it were, set the crown upon Satan's head, these especially. 1. False worship, Satan is the head of idolaters, if the sacrifice were offered in an unbecoming manner, God says, it was a sacrifice offered to Devils (Leviticus 17:7). In all false worships the Devil i…

There is nothing more frequent in the Scripture than to express Idolatry under the name of whoredom and adultery, for it is a breach of the marriage-covenant, and a yielding that honor to another, to a creature, to an idol, which is due to none, but God. Leviticus 17:7. They sha…

(3.) He is not a lawful Monarch, but usurps; and therefore is called the god of this world (2 Corinthians 4:4), not that he has any Godhead, properly so called. 1. It's true, a black Monarch wears Christ's fair Crown, and intrudes on his Throne, in every false worship: as Leviti…

So Rab. Suadias Gaeon in Haemunath, cap. 8. [in non-Latin alphabet]. It is not used for slaying, unless it be of him, who is slain by the sentence of the Judge, (or is judicially cut off) as it said, every one that eats of it shall be cut off (Leviticus 17:14). It is then foreto…

1. That all creatures to be eaten, beasts and birds have their heads taken off (Deuteronomy 12:2). 2. That the blood of beasts and birds killed to be eaten, be covered with earth or dust (Leviticus 17:23). 3. That the mother be left free from the nest, when the young ones are ta…

Twenty five times is this punishment threatened in the Law, still to such sins as disannul the Covenant, which our Apostle expressly respects (chapter 2:2), as shall be declared on that place. Now this punishment the Jews generally agree to be [in non-Latin alphabet] by the hand…

He exalted himself by virtue of this darkness (as he is the Prince of Darkness,) into the place and room of God, as the object of the religious worship of men. For the things which the Gentiles sacrificed, they sacrificed to devils, and not to God (1 Corinthians 10:21; Leviticus…

And by that means did God show himself favorable towards them, as he did towards the rest of the world. And for that cause also does Saint Paul add, that God being rich in mercy, has quickened them, as he did the Gentiles, even according to his great love with which he loved the…

1. Circumcision, and the ceremonies; and the priesthood (Exodus 40:15), (Leviticus 16:29) the fast in the seventh month, shall be a statute, for ever. (Leviticus 6:18) All the [reconstructed: males] of the sons of Aaron shall eat the remainder of the meat-offering, it shall be a…

He exalted himself by virtue of this darkness (as he is the prince of darkness) into the place and room of God, as the object of the religious worship of men. For the things which the gentiles sacrificed, they sacrificed unto devils, and not to God (1 Corinthians 10:21; Leviticu…