A Commentary on the Book of Leviticus, Expository and Practical
Overview
Discoursing on “the clearest book of Jewish Gospel,” Andrew A. Bonar engages the reader with the significance of ceremonial atonement and grace. Bonar provides detailed analysis of symbolic connections: such as the resemblance of certain rites to communion.
- Points out alternate translations and additional notes
- Provides verse-by-verse commentary
- Nature of the Book
- The Burnt-Offering
- The Meat-Offering
- The Peace-Offerings
- The Sin-Offering
- Sin-Offering for Sins of Inadvertency
- Continued.—The Trespass-Offering
- Same Subject Continued
- Continued.—Special Rules for Priests who Minister at the Altar of God
- Same Subject Continued
- The Priesthood Entering on Their Office
- Aaron’s Entrance on His Office
- The Fencing of the Priestly Ritual
- Remembrances of the Broken Law.—The Clean and the Unclean
- Original Sin.—What has Been Transmitted to Us
- The Leprosy.—Indwelling Sin.—Its Horrid Features
- The Leprosy Removed
- The Secret Flow of Sin from the Heart Typified in the Running Issue
- The Day of Atonement
- The Use of Animal Food Regulated
- Private and Domestic Obligations.—Purity in Every Relation of Life
- Duties in the Every Day Relations of Life
- Warnings against the Sins of the Former Inhabitants
- Personal Duties of the Priests
- Household Laws Regarding Holy Things.—First, as to the Priests, 1–17; then, as to the People, 17–33
- The Public Festivals, or Solemn Convocations
- Duty of Priests When Out of Public View
- The Sabbatic Year and Year of Jubilee.—Millennial Times
- Israel’s Temporal Blessings in Contrast to the Curse
- Entire Devotion to God Induced by the Foregoing View of His Character
Top Highlights
“There is no book, in the whole compass of that inspired Volume which the Holy Ghost has given us, that contains more of the very words of God than Leviticus. It is God that is the direct speaker in almost every page; his gracious words are recorded in the form wherein they were uttered. This consideration cannot fail to send us to the study of it with singular interest and attention.” (Page vii)
“But whatever speaks of Christ himself must speak of perfection. ‘Before the Lord,’ is an expression ever recurring: it is remarkable that it should occur so often. But perhaps it was because the Lord meant thus to insert a Divine safeguard against the Socinian idea, that sacrifice chiefly had reference to the offerer, not to God. Every sacrifice is brought before ‘the great Inhabitant of the sanctuary.’ So also this expression guards us against Popish error, as if ministers of Christ are priests in the same sense as the line of Aaron. No; ministers of Christ approach men in behalf of God, who sends them as ambassadors, but these priests approached God in behalf of guilty men.” (Page 20)
“Witsius (De Mysterio Tab.) has remarked, that God took only six days to creation, but spent forty days with Moses in directing him to make the tabernacle—because the work of grace is more glorious than the work of creation. And so we find the law from Sinai occupying three days at most, while these rules that exhibited the love and grace of God are spread over many weeks.” (Page xv)
“When the Lord said, ‘Speak to the children of Israel,’ instead of himself addressing them, it taught the people their need of a Mediator.” (Page 18)
Mr. Bonar’s commentary on Leviticus is full of devout thought, and discovers a high appreciation of the distinguishing peculiarities of the Gospel.
—The Churchman’s Monthly Review
He expounds each verse in course, and presents practical considerations of great importance. We commend the volume to clergymen and families as exceedingly valuable. Bonar employs similitudes and allegories to expound on the principles held in Leviticus.
—The Baptist Memorial and Monthly Record
- Title: A Commentary on the Book of Leviticus, Expository and Practical
- Author: Andrew A. Bonar
- Publisher: Robert Carter & Brothers
- Publication Date: 1851
- Pages: 513
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