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Matthew Poole and continuators on Leviticus 22:25

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Leviticus22:25

25 Neither from a strangers hand , shall ye offer the bread of your God of any of these ; because their corruption is in them , and blemishes be in them: they shall not be accepted for you .

To wit, from Proselytes, from whom less might seem to be expected, and in whom God might bear with some things, which he would not bear with in his own people: Yet even from those such should not be accepted, much less from the Israelites.

(i. e.) The sacrifices. See on Levit. 21. 8.

(i. e.) So corrupted or defective. Which clause limits the sense and kinds of offerings, and cuts off another more general interpretation received by many, to wit, that he forbids the receiving of any offering, whether blemished or perfect, from the hands of a stranger remaining in Heathenism.

(i. e.) They are corrupt, vitious and unlawful sacrifices.

Or, from you, O Priest, to whom it belongs to offer. You shall bear the blame of it, for the strangers might do so through ignorance of Gods Law.

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