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A Commentary on the Book of Leviticus (eBook)

by Andrew Bonar

in ePub, .mobi & .pdf formats

A Commentary on the Book of Leviticus: Expository and Practical with Critical Notes

‘Very precious, Mr. Andrew Bonar has a keen eye for a typical analogy, but he always keeps the rein upon his imagination, and is therefore safe to follow. He is a master in Israel.’ — C. H. SPURGEON

SOME years ago, while perusing the Book of Leviticus in the course of his daily study of the Scriptures, the author was arrested amid the shadows of a past dispensation, and led to write short notes as he went along. Not long after, another perusal of this inspired book—conducted in a similar way, and with much prayer for the teaching of the Spirit of truth—refreshed his own soul yet more, and led him on to inquire what others had gleaned in the same field. Some friends who, in this age of activity and bustle, find time to delight themselves in the law of the Lord, saw the notes, and urged their publication. 

There are few critical difficulties in the book; its chief obscurity arises from its enigmatical ceremonies. The author fears he may not always have succeeded in discovering the precise view of truth intended to be exhibited in these symbolic rites; but he has made the attempt, not thinking it irreverent to examine both sides of the veil, now that it has been rent. The Holy Spirit surely wishes us to inquire into what he has written; and the unhealthy tone of many true Christians may be accounted for by the too plain fact that they do not meditate much on the whole counsel of God. Experience, as well as the Word itself (Ps. 1:2, 3), would lead us to value very highly the habit of deeply pondering the discoveries of the mind of God given in all parts of Scripture, even the darkest. 

Throughout this Commentary, the truth that saves, and the truth that sanctifies, is set before the reader in a variety of aspects, according as each typical rite seemed to suggest. It may thus be useful to all classes of persons. And what, if even some of the house of Israel may here have their eye attracted to the Saviour, while giving heed to the signification of those ceremonies which to their fathers were signposts (אוֹתוֹת, Ps. 74:9) in the way of life. It is a book which Romaine called, "The Gospel according to Leviticus;" and of which Berridge said, "It is the clearest book of Jewish Gospel."

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Table of Contents

PREFACE 

NATURE OF THE BOOK 

I. The Burnt-Offering 

II. The Meat-Offering 

III. The Peace-Offerings 

IV. The Sin-Offering 

V. Sin-Offering for Sins of Inadvertency 

V. Continued.—The Trespass-Offering 

VI. Same Subject Continued 

VI. Continued.—Special Rules for Priests who Minister at the Altar of God 

VII. Same Subject Continued 

VIII. The Priesthood entering on their Office 

IX. Aaron's Entrance on his Office 

X. The Fencing of the Priestly Ritual 

XI. Remembrances of the Broken Law.—The Clean and the Unclean 

XII. Original Sin.—What has been Transmitted to us 

XIII. The Leprosy.—Indwelling Sin.—Its Horrid Features 

XIV. The Leprosy Removed 

XV. The Secret Flow of Sin from the Heart Typified in the Running Issue 

XVI. The Day of Atonement 

XVII. The Use of Animal Food Regulated 

XVIII. Private and Domestic Obligations.—Purity in Every Relation of Life 

XIX. Duties in the Every Day Relations of Life 

XX. Warnings against the Sins of the Former Inhabitants 

XXI. Personal Duties of the Priests 

XXII. Household Laws regarding Holy Things.—First, as to the Priests, 1–17; then, as to the People, 17–33 

XXIII. The Public Festivals, or Solemn Convocations 

XXIV. Duty of Priests when out of Public View 

XXV. The Sabbatic Year and Year of Jubilee.—Millennial Times 

XXVI. Israel's Temporal Blessings in Contrast to the Curse 

XXVII. Entire Devotion to God induced by the foregoing View of His Character 

 

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