Matthew Poole and continuators on Numbers 5:6

6 Speak unto the children of Israel, when a man or a woman shall commit any sin that men commit , to do a trespass against the LORD , and that person be guilty :

Heb. any sins of men, i. e. either 1. of common infirmity, or such sins as men commit through humane frailty, for if this were done knowingly and willingly, a greater punishment was appointed. See Lev. 6. 5, 6. Or rather 2. sins against men, or belonging to men, to wit, deceits or wrongs, whereby other men are injured, of which he manifestly speaks, as appears from ver. 7, 8. so this is a Genitive case of the object, as Mat. 12. 31. blasphemy of the spirit, (for so it is in the Greek) is blasphemy against the holy Ghost, as it is called Mark 3. 28. Luk. 12. 10. and power of all flesh, Ioh. 17. 2. is power [illegible: 1+ letters]ver all flesh, and power of spirit, Mat. 10. 1. is power over or against spirits, Luk. 9. 1. and prayer of God, Luk. 6. 12. is prayer directed unto God: and the spoil of the poor, Isa. 3. 14. is the spoil taken from the poor: and violence of the children of Iudah, Ioel 3. 19. is violence against them, as we translate it.

Which words may be added, either 1. to express a new sin, of prevaricating or dealing falsly with God, either by a false oath, which is a special injury to God, or by a lie or simple denial that he hath taken any thing of his neighbours, which also God takes as a sin especially concerning himself, who in such cases is the c[illegible: 1+ letters]ely judge of what is [illegible: 1 word] said or sworn. See Act. 5. 3, 4. Or 2. to aggravate the former sin and to shew that such injuries done to men are also sins against God who hath commanded justice to men as well as religion to himself. But the former is more probable, both because here is a ram of atonement to be offered to God for the special injury done to him, as well as satisfaction is to be made to the man whom he injured, and especially by comparing this with the parallel place, Levit. 6. 2, &c.

(i. e.) Shall be sensible of his guilt, or be convicted in his conscience of his sin, for otherwise this might seem a meer tautology, if it were onely meant of being really guilty of sin, which was expressed before in those words when one shall commit any sin, i. e. be guilty of any sin.

Marginal references: Lev. 6. 3.