Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Leviticus 22:7
And when the sun is down, he shall be clean, and shall afterward eat of the holy things; because it [is] his food.
i.e. His portion, the means of his subsistence. This may be added to signify why there was no greater nor longer a penalty put upon the priests than upon the people in the same case, Le 11; Le 15, because his necessity craved some mitigation; though otherwise the priests being more sacred persons, and obliged to greater care and exemplariness, deserved a greater punishment.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
And when the sun is down he shall be clean,…. Having washed himself in water, otherwise not, though the sun may be set:
and shall afterwards eat of the holy things; the families of the priests lived upon:
because it [is] his food: his common food, his ordinary diet, that by which he subsists, having nothing else to live upon; this being the ordination of God, that he which ministered about holy things should live on them; and these being his only substance, in compassion to him they were detained from him no longer than the evening; and this was done, to make him careful how he defiled himself, since thereby he was debarred of his ordinary meals.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
(7) And shall afterward eat . . . because it is his food.As the sacrifices which were the perquisites of the officiating priests were the only things he had to live upon, the priest who had contracted defilement had virtually to go without food till sundown, when he purified himself by the prescribed lustrations.
That which dieth of itself.That is, clean animals or birds which have not been properly slaughtered, but have met with an accident. These have already been forbidden to every ordinary Israelite. (See Lev. 17:15.) In the case of a priest eating the proscribed meat the consequences would be more serious, inasmuch as he would be debarred from his sacerdotal duties.
Keep my ordinance.That is, one laid down in the preceding verse with reference to animals which died a natural death, &c.
And die therefore, if they profane it.The death here threatened for the transgression of the ordinance is one not to be inflicted by an earthly tribunal, but, as it was explained during the second Temple, by the hand of heaven. Hence the Chaldee version of Jonathan renders it, lest they be killed for it by a flaming fire like Nadab and Abihu.
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
7. When the sun is down The divine mercy is seen in the narrow period during which the priest is disqualified from eating the holy and the most holy things. Since these were his prescribed food, a long uncleanness would be a long fasting.
Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
Lev 22:7 And when the sun is down, he shall be clean, and shall afterward eat of the holy things; because it [is] his food.
Ver. 7. ; Because it is his food. ] Animantis cuiusque vita in fuga est, and must be preserved by food.
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
Lev 21:22, Num 18:11-19, Deu 18:3, Deu 18:4, 1Co 9:4, 1Co 9:13, 1Co 9:14
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Lev 22:7. His food His portion, the means of his subsistence. This may be added, to signify why there was no greater nor longer a penalty put upon the priests than upon the people in the same case, because his necessity craved some mitigation: though otherwise the priests, being more sacred persons, deserved a greater punishment.