Matthew Poole and continuators on Leviticus 21:12

12 Neither shall he go out of the sanctuary , nor profane the sanctuary of his God: for the crown of the anointing oyl of his God is upon him: I am the LORD.

To wit, to attend the funerals of any person: for upon other occasions he might and did commonly go out.

Either by making the service thereof give place to the discharge of his passions or the performance of a civility, or by entring into the Sanctuary before the seven days allotted for his cleansing, Numb. 19. 11. were expired.

(i. e.) The anointing oil, which to him was in stead of a crown, by which he was advanced not onely above the rest of his brethren, but even above all the people, whose chief Governour he was in the things of God, though subject and accountable to the civil Magistrate, by which also he was made an eminent type of Christ who was to be King and Priest. Or, the crown, to wit, the golden plate, which is called the holy crown, Exod. 29. 6. and the anointing oyl of his God are upon him. So there is onely an Ellipsis of the conjunction, and, which is frequent, as Psal. 33. 2. and 144. 9. Isa. 63. 11. Hab. 3. 11. &c. And these two things, being most eminent, are put for the rest, and the sign is put for the thing signified, q. d. for he is Gods High-priest. Or, the consecration (for so n[illegible: 1+ letters]zer signifies) of the anointing oil, which by an Hypallage may be put for the anointing oil of the consecration, i. e. whereby he is consecrated, is upon him, i. e. though that action be past, yet the vertue of it remains still upon him, he is a sacred person in the highest degree and therefore not to defile himself in any kind.

Marginal references: Exod. 28. 36.; Or, consecration, or separation, Numb. 6. 7.