Matthew Poole and continuators on Leviticus 19:17

17 Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thine heart: thou shalt in any wise rebuke thy neighbour , and not suffer sin upon him .

To prevent murder, last spoken of, he forbids hatred, which is the common cause, and a degree, of murder, 1 Iob. 3. 15.

The same with neighbour, as it follows, i. e. every man, Matth. 5. 44. for it is manifest, that Gods Law commanded them to love strangers no less than Israelites.

If thy brother hath done thee or others any injury, thou shalt neither divulge it to others as a tale-bearer, nor hate him, and smother that hatred by sullen silence, as 2 Sam 13. 22 nor justifie and flatter and encourage him therein, but shalt freely and in love not with hatred tell him of his fault.

(i. e.) Not suffer him to lye under the guilt of any sin, which thou by rebuking of him, and the[illegible: 1+ letters]by bringing him to true Repentance couldst in some sort free him from. But the phrase of suffering sin upon him seems imperfect and unusual in Scripture, and I doubt whether the Hebrew verb Nasa be ever used for permitting or suffering. The words may be rendred thus, And (or so) thou shalt not bear sin for him. or for his sake, thou shalt not make thy self guilty of his sin, as thou wilst assuredly do, if thou dost not perform thy duty of rebuking him for his sin, which is a likely way, and a course appointed by God to remove the gu[illegible: 1+ letters]lt of his sin from him, and consequently, as it was his fault that he sinned and contracted guilt, so it is thy fault, that his guilt continues upon him. Many things favour this sence. 1. This is the proper and usual signification of the word, Nasa, 2. The same words are used in this sense, Levit. 22. 9. Numb. 18. 32. 3. The preposition al is oft used thus, as Gen. 37. 8, 34. Iudg. 9. [illegible: 1+ letters]. 1 Kin[illegible: 1+ letters] 16. 7. 4. This phrase of bearing sin or iniquity is constantly used in this book for being guilty and lyable to punishment. And so the sense is here full and compleat, and a very weighty reason here given to enforce the foregoing precept.

Marginal references: 1 Joh. 2. 11.; Mat. 18. 15.; Or, that thou be[illegible: 1+ letters]r not sin for him.