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<div2 id="Lev.i" n="i" next="Lev.ii" prev="Lev" progress="50.95%" title="Introduction">
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<h2 id="Lev.i-p0.1">Leviticus</h2>
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<pb id="Lev.i-Page_448" n="448"/>
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<div class="Center" id="Lev.i-p0.3">
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<p id="Lev.i-p1"><b>AN</b></p>
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<h3 id="Lev.i-p1.1">EXPOSITION,</h3>
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<h4 id="Lev.i-p1.2">W I T H P R A C T I C A L O B S E
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R V A T I O N S,</h4>
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<h5 id="Lev.i-p1.3">OF THE THIRD BOOK OF MOSES, CALLED</h5>
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<h2 id="Lev.i-p1.4">L E V I T I C U S.</h2>
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<hr style="width:2in"/>
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</div>
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<p class="indent" id="Lev.i-p2"><span class="smallcaps" id="Lev.i-p2.1">There</span> is
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nothing historical in all this book of Leviticus except the account
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which it gives us of the consecration of the priesthood (<scripRef id="Lev.i-p2.2" osisRef="Bible:Lev.8.1-Lev.9.24" parsed="|Lev|8|1|9|24" passage="Le 8:1-9:24"><i>ch.</i> viii.-ix.</scripRef>), of the
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punishment of Nadab and Abihu, by the hand of God, for offering
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strange fire (<scripRef id="Lev.i-p2.3" osisRef="Bible:Lev.10.1-Lev.10.20" parsed="|Lev|10|1|10|20" passage="Le 10:1-20"><i>ch.</i>
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x</scripRef>), and of Shelomith's son, by the hand of the
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magistrate, for blasphemy (<scripRef id="Lev.i-p2.4" osisRef="Bible:Lev.24.1-Lev.24.23" parsed="|Lev|24|1|24|23" passage="Le 24:1-23"><i>ch.</i> xxiv</scripRef>). All the rest of the book
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is taken up with the laws, chiefly the ecclesiastical laws, which
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God gave to Israel by Moses, concerning their sacrifices and
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offerings, their meats and drinks, and divers washings, and the
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other peculiarities by which God set that people apart for himself,
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and distinguished them from other nations, all which were shadows
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of good things to come, which are realized and superseded by the
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gospel of Christ. We call the book <i>Leviticus,</i> from the
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Septuagint, because it contains the laws and ordinances of the
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<i>levitical priesthood</i> (as it is called, <scripRef id="Lev.i-p2.5" osisRef="Bible:Heb.7.11" parsed="|Heb|7|11|0|0" passage="Heb 7:11">Heb. vii. 11</scripRef>), and the ministrations of it.
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The Levites were principally charged with these institutions, both
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to do their part and to teach the people theirs. We read, in the
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close of the foregoing book, of the setting up of the tabernacle,
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which was to be the place of worship; and, as that was framed
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according to the pattern, so must the ordinances of worship be,
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which were there to be administered. In these the divine
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appointment was as particular as in the former, and must be as
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punctually observed. The remaining record of these abrogated laws
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is of use to us, for the strengthening of our faith in Jesus
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Christ, as <i>the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world,</i>
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and for the increase of our thankfulness to God, that by him we are
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freed from the yoke of the ceremonial law, and live in the times of
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reformation.</p>
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</div2>
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