If a soul sin, and commit a trespass against the LORD, and lie unto his neighbour in that which was delivered him to keep, or in fellowship, or in a thing taken away by violence, or hath deceived his neighbour;
Ver. 2. Against the Lord.] As David in defiling his neighbour's wife, and afterwards killing him, is said to have "despised the commandment of the Lord, and to have done evil in his sight," 2Sa 12:9 which also he penitently acknowledgeth. Psa 51:4 Sin is properly against none but God, being a transgression of his law. Hence the manslayer was confined to the city of refuge as to a prison, during the life of the high priest; as being, saith one, a the chief god on earth. That was a true position of the Pelagians, Omne peccatum est contemptus Dei, that every sin is a contempt of God. Pro 18:3
In fellowship.] Heb., In putting of the hand. b It is said in Job, Job 8:20 , marg. that "God will not take a wicked man by the hand," i.e., he will have no fellowship with him.
a Godw., Heb. Antiq., p. 98.
b Dextram coniungere dextrae.