Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Leviticus 14:20
And the priest shall offer the burnt offering and the meat offering upon the altar: and the priest shall make an atonement for him, and he shall be clean.
And the priest shall offer the burnt offering and the meat offering upon the altar,…. The meat offering which belonged to that, and went along with it, even one tenth deal of fine flour mingled with oil; but no mention being made of any meat offering with the other offerings already offered, the trespass offering and the sin offering; some say, as Aben Ezra observes, that the whole meat offering, consisting of three tenth deals of fine flour, was offered with the burnt offering, which must be a saving to the priest, if he only burnt one handful of it, as in other cases, the rest falling to his part:
and the priest shall make an atonement for him; these offerings still furthering of it, and sending to perfect it, and did complete it:
and he shall be clean; in a typical and ceremonial sense.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
(20) Shall offer the burnt offering.With the offering of the burnt offering, accompanied by the meat offering mentioned in Lev. 14:10, concluded the second and last stage of the purification of the leper, which completely restored him to the privileges of the sanctuary.
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
Lev 14:20. The priest shall offer the burnt-offering From the whole of the preceding account we learn what was the gift which our Saviour enjoined the leper, according to custom, to offer as a testimony to the priest, Mat 8:4. For these gifts and various ceremonies were not only designed as testimonies to shew that the leper was perfectly cured, and men might therefore associate with him; but also, as being burdensome and chargeable, to make men cautious of contracting so loathsome a distemper. This burnt-offering, being in the nature of a present to God in gratitude for having worked the cure, was not to be offered till, by the other offerings for trespass and sin, the man had made public profession of his repentance, without which his gift could not find acceptance at God’s altar.
REFLECTIONS.When God has restored us again from sickness to visit his tabernacle, it becomes us to appear with our grateful acknowledgments for the mercy. The leper was before pronounced clean: now he is introduced as such to the door of the congregation, with his three lambs, a meat-offering, and log of oil. The trespass-offering is first killed, and the blood applied to the ear, thumb, and toe of the person; signifying now his being wholly clean, and typifying the application of the blood of atonement by Jesus, the great High-Priest, to the conscience by faith: then the oil is put upon it in token of his healing. The oil of Divine Grace ever accompanies the sprinkling of atoning blood. Hereupon his sin-offering is accepted for an atonement; and his burnt-offering is a sweet savour of thanksgiving, and now he is free among the people. Note; They whose sin is pardoned, and whose leprosy is cleansed, however they may have before been separated from the faithful, will now be received with joy into the bosom of the church, and of every true Israelite.
Fuente: Commentary on the Holy Bible by Thomas Coke
Lev 14:20 And the priest shall offer the burnt offering and the meat offering upon the altar: and the priest shall make an atonement for him, and he shall be clean.
Ver. 20. And the meat offering. ] The meat offering annexed to the burnt offering shows, saith one, a either that Christians grow marvellously in this life, after they have full assurance of pardon of sin: or else that Christ will be their eternal food in heaven.
a Bifield, on 1Pe 1:22 .
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
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(See Scofield “Exo 29:33”)
Fuente: Scofield Reference Bible Notes
Lev 14:10, Eph 5:2
Reciprocal: Lev 14:29 – General Lev 14:53 – General Lev 15:15 – the one Num 8:12 – the one 2Ch 29:24 – to make