Matthew Poole and continuators on Leviticus 6:2

2 If a soul sin and commit a trespass against the LORD , and lie unto his neighbour in that which was delivered him to keep , or in fellowship , or in a thing taken away by violence , or hath deceived his neighbour :

This sin, though directly committed against man onely, is here emphatically said to be done against the lord, not onely in general, for so every sin against man is also against the Lord, whose image in man is thereby injured, and whose law, which obligeth us to love and fidelity and justice to other men, is thereby violated; but in a more special sence, because this was a violation of humane society, whereof God is the author and president and defender; See Numb. 5. 6. and because it was a secret sin, of which God alone was the witness and judge; see Act. 5. 4. and because Gods name was abused in it by perjury, ver. 3.

To wit, in trust,

Heb. or in putting of the hand. Which may be either 1. another expression of the same thing immediately going before, which is very frequent in Scripture; and so the sence is, when one man puts any thing into another mans hand to keep for him, and, when he requires it, to restore it to him. Or 2. a distinct branch, which seems more probable, and so it belongs to commerce or fellowship in trading, which is very usual, when one man puts any thing into anothers hand not to keep it, as in the foregoing word or member, but to use and improve it for the common benefit of them both in which cases of partnership it is [illegible: 1+ letters]e for one to deceive the other, and therefore provision is here made against it. And this is called a putting of the hand, because such agreements and associations used to be confirmed by giving or joyning their hands together, Ier. 50. 15. Gal. 2. 9. Compare Exod. 23. 1.

To wit, secretly; for he seems to speak here of such sins as could not be proved by witness.

Get any thing from him by calumny or fraud, or circumvention; for so the word signifies.

Marginal references: Or, in [illegible: 1 word] ▪; Heb. putti[illegible: 1+ letters] of the hand.