Matthew Poole and continuators on Leviticus 27:14

14 And when a man shall sanctifie his house to be holy unto the LORD , then the priest shall estimate it, whether it be good▪ or bad: as the priest shall estimate it, so shall it stand .

To wit, by a vow, for of that way and manner of sanctification he speaks in this whole chapter.

In which case the benefit of it redounded either to the Priests for their maintenance, Num. 18. 14. or to the Sanctuary for its reparations or expences.

Supposing that the Priests estimation doth not notoriously swerve from the rules of valuation prescribed by God. For if the Priest determined most unrighteously & unreasonably, as suppose an hundred times more than the true value of it, I presume no man is so void of sence as to say they were all bound to stand to the Priests determination in that case. Even as in case a mans leprosy was notorious and unquestionable, if a Priest should through partiality pronounce him clean, this did not make him clean. And therefore all those passages of Scripture which leave things to▪ and command men to acqu[illegible: 1+ letters]esce in, the determination of the Priest or Priests, are to be understood with this exception, that their determinations be not evidently contrary to the revealed will of God to whom Priests are subject and accountable. Otherwise if the Priests had commanded men to pro[illegible: 1+ letters]ane the sabbath this would have acquitted them from the obligation of Gods command of keeping it holy, which is impiou[illegible: 1+ letters] and absurd to affirm. And this consideration will give light to many Scriptures.