Chapter 22:
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Leviticus 22
The following commentary covers Chapters 21 and 22.
Holiness
specially becoming the priests as set apart for Jehovah
Chapter 21 specially
presents what becomes the priests as set apart for
Jehovah: this more intimate nearness supposed a conduct
corresponding with it. All in their state must be fit for
God's presence. So it is with us.
Chapter 22. If there was,
through weakness or neglect, anything unbecoming this
nearness, they were to keep at a distance. Consequently
there were things of which the priests, and those of
their families in priestly separation, alone could eat.
It is the same with us: there are things of the spiritual
food of Christ, offered to God, upon which we can only
feed, inasmuch as the heart is really separated unto Him,
by the power of the Spirit. The offerings themselves must
be pure, and such as become the eyes of God to whom they
are presented, and a right appreciation of His majesty,
and of our relationship with Him. All this indeed is
found in Christ. No hardness of nature is allowed, but
holiness. In what is connected with our own joy before
God, holiness must be maintained in what is offered.
Practical
sanctification in obedience to Jehovah's word
In chapter 20, where they
are forbidden to follow the brutal and superstitious
customs of idolatry (to which Satan had degraded man) and
are warned against all impurity, which indeed was always
inseparable from it, and for which the influence of the
devil gave license, we have this simple and beautiful
exposition of the principle which was to govern them:
"Sanctify yourselves, therefore, and be ye holy:
for
I am Jehovah your God. And ye shall keep my statutes,
and do them: I am Jehovah which sanctify you." They
are bound to holiness and to sanctify themselves
practically, because they are in the house, and the
Master of it is holy. Sanctification supposed that they
were in an acknowledged relationship with God, who will
have the inmates of His house clean according to His own
cleanness.
But then His word was to
be the rule. They were to obey Him in
His directions,
for it was He who was separating them to Himself. This is
a very instructive word as to the standard of all our
thoughts with regard to that. If any are in my house, I
will have them clean, because they are there; those
outside are no concern of mine [
1]. Then it was Jehovah who was separating
them for that. There are interesting instructions with
regard to what the priests ate, which we shall find again
in the following book, and consider when we come to it.
[1] I do not speak of
responsibility or mercy here.
Chapter 22:
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