Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Leviticus 22:16
Or suffer them to bear the iniquity of trespass, when they eat their holy things: for I the LORD do sanctify them.
16. to bear the iniquity that bringeth guilt ] The expression is unique.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
i.e. They, i.e. the priests shall not (the negative particle being understood out of the foregoing clause, as Psa 1:5; 9:18 suffer them, i.e. the people, to bear the iniquity of trespass, i.e. the punishment of their sin, which they might expect from God, and for the prevention whereof the priest was to see restitution made, &c. The words may be rendered thus, But (so the Hebrew vau is oft translated) they, i.e. the priests, shall make them, i.e. the people, to bear the iniquity, or punishment, of their trespass or sin, i.e. they shall require from them reparations in manner here expressed.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
Or suffer them to bear the iniquity of trespass,…. The punishment of sin: either the strangers,
when they eat their holy things; the holy things belonging to the priests, which they permitting them to do, suffer them to be liable to the punishment incurred thereby, or else the priests themselves; so the Septuagint version renders the word “themselves”; and in like manner Jarchi interprets it; and then the sense may be, according to the Targums of Jonathan and Onkelos, that the priests shall bear the punishment of their sins,
“when they shall eat the holy things in uncleanness,”
which is what is forbidden them in the former part of the chapter; but this seems to be too remote; rather the former sense is best:
for I the Lord do sanctify them; both the priests, to whom the holy things belong, and the holy things for their use, and the use of their families, and them only.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
(16) Or suffer them to bear the iniquity of trespass.Better, Moreover, they shall not cause them to bear the iniquity. That is, not only are the priests themselves prohibited to treat with profanity the sacred gifts, but they are to realise that it is incumbent upon them to guard these sacrifices so carefully as not to cause the Israelites to contract sin by transgressing the laws by eating holy things which are put in their way through culpable negligence.
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
Lev 22:16 Or suffer them to bear the iniquity of trespass, when they eat their holy things: for I the LORD do sanctify them.
Ver. 16. Or suffer them. ] From my “other men’s sins,” good Lord deliver me, said one: have we not enough of our own to answer for? See 1Ti 5:22 , See Trapp on “ 1Ti 5:22 “ That cannot be wholesome meat that is sauced with the blood of souls, and spiced with the wrath of God.
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
iniquity = penalty. Put by Figure of speech Metonymy (of Cause). App-6. Hebrew. ‘avon. App-44.
trespass. Hebrew. ‘aSamaritan Pentateuch App-44.
I the LORD do sanctify. A Jehovah title. See note on Lev 21:8, and App-4.
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
suffer them to bear the iniquity of the trespass, or, lade themselves with the iniquity of trespass in their eating, bear. Lev 7:18, Psa 38:4, Isa 53:11, Isa 53:12, 1Pe 2:24
for I: Lev 22:9, Lev 20:8
Reciprocal: Exo 29:44 – sanctify also Lev 10:17 – to bear Lev 22:32 – hallow you
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Lev 22:16. They That is, the priests; shall not (the negative particle being understood out of the foregoing clause) suffer them That is, the people; to bear the iniquity of trespass That is, the punishment of their sin, which they might expect from God, and for the prevention whereof the priest was to see restitution made.
Fuente: Joseph Bensons Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
22:16 Or suffer them to bear the iniquity of {h} trespass, when they eat their holy things: for I the LORD do sanctify them.
(h) For if they did not offer sacrifice for their error, the people by their example might commit the same offence.