Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Leviticus 18:22
Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it [is] abomination.
Verse 22. With mankind] This abominable crime, frequent among the Greeks and Romans as well as the Canaanites, may be punished with death in this country.
Fuente: Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible
Thou shall not lie with mankind as with womankind,…. By carnal knowledge of them, and carnal copulation with them, and mixing bodies in like manner: this is the sin commonly called sodomy, from the inhabitants of Sodom, greatly addicted to it, for which their city was destroyed by fire: those that are guilty of this sin, are, by the apostle, called “abusers of themselves with mankind”, 1Co 6:9;
it [is] abomination; it is so to God, as the above instance of his vengeance shows, and ought to be abominable to men, as being not only contrary to the law of God, but even contrary to nature itself, and what is never to be observed among brute creatures.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
Verses 22-30:
The text strictly forbids the sin of sodomy. God describes it as abomination (text, and De 23:17, 18) vile affections (Ro 1:26, 27), wickedness (Jg 19:23), effeminate (1Co 6:9), self-abuse (1Co 6:9), self defilement (1Tim. 1:9, 10), reprobate (Ro 1:28), violation of nature (Ro 1:24), filthy dreamer (Judges 7, 8), inordinate affection (Col 3:5, 6).
Eze 16:49, 50 describes the full sin of sodomy as involving: pride, fullness of bread, abundance of idleness, neglect of the poor and needy, naughtiness, and committing abomination before God. Ge 19 and Jg 19 describe the horror of sodomy, and its dreadful consequences.
Modern terminology uses other terms to denote the sin of sodomy. `Homosexual” is the general term, and usually applies to sexual relations between males. “Lesbian” applies to sexual relations between females. There is a strong trend in modern society to give respectability to these practices which were quite common among the pagans. But God decreed the death penalty for all forms of sexual relations between those of the same sex, Le 20:13.
Bestiality is the final sin in the listing of forbidden sexual relationships Neither male nor female is to have sexual intercourse with an animal The penalty: death. Le 20:15.
The penalties for violation of God’s regulations of sexual conduct are severe for those personally involved. In some instances, the penalty was excommunication from society; in others it was death. However, there were consequences to the entire nation whose people followed these practices. These sins brought national judgment:
1. Sexual immorality, including incest, prostitution, and adultery.
2. Shedding of innocent blood, in the slaughter of children.
3. Sexual perversion, including sodomy and bestiality.
4. Oppression of the poor and needy.
History reveals the rise and fall of powerful empires. The jungles of Africa, Central and South America, and Asia contain the ruins of sophisticated civilizations. The glory of ancient Greece remains only in magnificent ruins. These empires were not destroyed by their enemies: they fell because of moral corruption, involving the sins listed above.
Moral corruption, murder of innocent children, sexual perversion will destroy a nation today as surely as these factors destroyed civilizations in the past. This is a lesson from history which men today need to learn. One wise man said, “They who ignore the lessons of history are doomed to repeat them.”
Fuente: Garner-Howes Baptist Commentary
We learn from these passages that the people were not only prohibited from adultery, but also from all sins (61) which are repugnant to the modesty of nature itself. In order that all impurity may be the more detestable, He enumerates two species of unnatural lust, from whence it is evident that when men indulge themselves in this respect, they are carried away by an impulse, which is more than beastly, to defile themselves by shameful wickedness. The beasts are satisfied with natural connection; it is therefore a gross enormity that this distinction should be confounded by man endowed with reason; for what is the use of our judgment and intelligent faculties if it be not that greater self-restraint should exist in us than in the brute animals? It is plain, therefore, that they must be blinded in a horrible manner who so shamefully defile themselves, as Paul says. (Rom 1:28.) The madness of lust has, however, invented several monstrous vices, whose names it would be better to bury, if God had not chosen that these shameful monuments should exist, to inspire us with fear and horror. It has at length advanced to such excesses, that men created in God’s image, both male and female, have had connection with brutes.
(61) “Toutes dissolutions vilenes.” — Fr.
Fuente: Calvin’s Complete Commentary
(22) As with womankind.This was the sin of Sodom (Gen. 19:5), whence it derived its name, and in spite of the penalty of death enacted by the Law against those who were found guilty of it (see Lev. 20:13), the Israelites did not quite relinquish this abominable vice (Jdg. 19:22; 1Ki. 14:24), to which the surrounding nations were addicted and which was so prevalent in the time of the Apostles (Rom. 1:27; 1Co. 6:9; Gal. 5:19; 1Ti. 1:10). By the law of Christ those who are guilty of this sin are excluded from the kingdom of God (1Co. 6:9-10), whilst the laws of civilised Europe rightly inflict the severest penalties upon offenders of this kind.
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
22. Lie with mankind, as with womankind The whole heathen world, according to St. Paul, (Rom 1:27, note,) corroborated by the ancient historians and all modern travellers, was more or less addicted to the disgusting vice of paederastia, or boy love, a crime against nature, “male on male performing the unseemliness,” which Christianity has banished. To this loathsome form of sensuality Roman poets once unblushingly sung praises. Read Virgil’s Second Eclogue.
Abomination The Hebrew word occurs one hundred and sixteen times, and always expresses the loathsome and disgusting aspects of crimes and criminals.
Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
Lev 18:22 Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it [is] abomination.
Ver. 22. Thou shalt not lie with mankind. ] The Sodomites’ sin. Gen 19:5 See Trapp on “ Gen 19:5 “ This, say the Hebrews, was Ishmael’s sporting with Isaac: and this, say others, was the sin of Joseph’s brethren, the evil report whereof he brought to his father. A sad report it was surely to our King Henry I, that was brought him concerning his eldest son, William, who, crossing the seas from France to England, was with many other gallants cast away by shipwreck, being Sodomitica labe infecti fere omnes, saith Guliel. Parisiensis, almost all of them infected with this abomination of going after strange flesh. Jdg 1:7-8
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
as. Referring to the sin of Sodom (whence its name), Gen 19:5. Compare Lev 20:13. Jdg 19:22. 1Ki 14:24.
abomination = a thing to be abhorred.
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
Lev 20:13, Gen 19:5, Jdg 19:22, 1Ki 14:24, Rom 1:26, Rom 1:27, 1Co 6:9, 1Ti 1:10, Jud 1:7
Reciprocal: Gen 19:7 – General Eze 16:50 – and committed Eze 18:12 – hath committed Rom 1:24 – between