Leviticus 4 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Bible Comments
  • Leviticus 4:1 open_in_new

    CONTENTS

    The interesting subject of the law of ordinances, is continued through this Chapter. Here are instructions, concerning sins of ignorance; and the offering to be made in consequence thereof. Moses is taught, by the LORD himself to instruct the Children of Israel, how to prepare, and offer those sacrifices; and of the difference in the ordinance, when it concerns a ruler or private person.

  • Leviticus 4:4 open_in_new

    Reader! do not overlook the important ceremony, of laying on the hand. Did not this expressly say, that in the moment he did this, he himself as a sinner confessed that he merited the death, which the sacrifice was immediately after to sustain. Leviticus 16:21; Galatians 3:13.

  • Leviticus 4:6 open_in_new

    Were not those repeated presentations typical of the continued appearance of the LORD JESUS, for his people before the mercy-seat, who when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the majesty on high? Hebrews 1:3.

  • Leviticus 4:13 open_in_new

    After the law respecting the sin of the priest, comes the provision for the national sin of the people. Reader! do not overlook a sweet improvement here. JESUS'S church will continue in the earth, as long as the sun and moon endureth; but though this is graciously promised, yet it is nowhere said that it shall be without error. It is only holy in the Redeemer's holiness. Song 1-8.

  • Leviticus 4:16-21 open_in_new

    All these are similar actions to what were enjoined concerning the sin of the high priest. Yes, there is but one, and the same salvation, both for the priest and the people. Acts 4:12.

  • Leviticus 4:22 open_in_new

    What a blessed provision is here shadowed forth, of the efficacy of CHRIST'S redemption, which taketh away all sin; in the delivery from the sin of ignorance. Job 6:24.

  • Leviticus 4:23-26 open_in_new

    The same without much variety, only in an humbler offering, is here appointed for the ruler, as for the priest. Both evidently referring to the finished redemption which is in CHRIST, and to which all these services ministered. Hebrews 10:1.

  • Leviticus 4:27-35 open_in_new

    There is but little alteration here again, in the provision, made for the sin of the common people, from that for the ruler; only in an humbler oblation. Ezekiel 18:4. Hence, one common salvation is alike needed for all: and that can only be found in the redemption by CHRIST. 1 John 2:1-2; 1 John 2:1-2.

  • Leviticus 4:35 open_in_new

    REFLECTIONS

    How beautiful is it to behold the LORD JESUS thus set forth by the HOLY GHOST to the view of the church, under that grand and important part of his divine character our great high priest. But how equally beautiful is it to observe at the same time, what an everlasting distinction the blessed SPIRIT hath drawn between JESUS and all his types, in his servants. Here under the law, as an apostle truly saith, we see men that have infirmity, made high priests: but under the gospel, the word of the oath which was since the law, maketh the SON who is consecrated forevermore.

    Here Reader! let you and I pause over those solemn representations. Here let us behold the great evil of sin, which alike in priest, and in people, among the rulers and the poor, exposes all without distinction, to the just and merited punishment of Almighty GOD. Is your heart, like my heart, under a deep sense of sin, and the consciousness of deserved wrath, prompted to ask with him of old, Wherewith shall I come before the LORD, and bow myself before the High GOD? shall I come before him with burnt offerings, or give the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul? Oh! how infinitely precious, to every truly awakened heart that is asking the way of salvation, in those anxious enquiries, is that soul-reviving answer; Behold the LAMB of GOD which taketh away the sins of the world. Dearest JESUS! may I know by the sweet application of the HOLY GHOST's work in my heart, that thou hast taken away my sin, and art become the LORD my righteousness.