1; Who may or may not enter into the congregation.
9; Uncleanness is to be avoided in the host.
15; Of the fugitive servant.
17; Of filthiness.
18; Of abominable sacrifices.
19; Of usury.
21; Of vows.
24; Of trespasses.
* wounded.
Le 21:17-21 22:22-24 Ga 3:28
* shall not enter.
It is evident that his law was not meant to exclude such
Israelites either from the common benefits of civil society,
or any essential religious advantages; but merely to lay them
under a disgraceful distinction. This would tend to
discourage parents from thus treating their children; a
practice which was exceedingly common in those ages and
countries. To this they were induced by the custom which
prevailed, of employing such in the houses of the great and
the courts of princes; so that they often rose to the highest
posts of honour and authority. Some expositors therefore
consider the phrase, "shall not enter into the congregation of
the Lord," as meaning, that they should be incapable of
bearing any office in that government which was placed over
the people of God, who must thus enter a protest against this
custom, and deliver selfish parents from this temptation.
2,3,8 Ne 13:1-3 Isa 56:3,4 La 1:10
|