Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Leviticus 18:26
Ye shall therefore keep my statutes and my judgments, and shall not commit [any] of these abominations; [neither] any of your own nation, nor any stranger that sojourneth among you:
Nor any stranger, in nation or religion, of what kind soever. For though they might not force them to submit to their religion, yet they might restrain them from the public contempt of the Jewish laws, and from the violation of natural laws, which besides the offence against God and nature, were matters of evil example and consequence to the Israelites themselves.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
Ye shall therefore keep my statutes and my judgments,…. Before observed to them, whether of a ceremonial nature, and enjoined them according to his sovereign will and pleasure; or of a moral nature, and founded in justice and equity, and so worthy of their regard, and obligatory upon them; as well as in their own nature they recommended themselves to their regard, as being the reverse of those loathsome and abominable things before dehorted from:
and shall not commit [any] of these abominations; such as incest, adultery, idolatry, and bestiality, which are in themselves abominable things, execrable to God, and to be detested by men:
[neither] any of your own nation; that belonged to any of their own tribes, or should be born to them in the land of Canaan when they came thither, and were properly natives of it:
nor any stranger that sojourneth among you; any proselyte, and especially a proselyte of righteousness, who conformed to the Jewish religion, and had laid himself under obligation to do everything that was binding upon an Israelite.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
26. Ye shall therefore keep my statutes He here contrasts His Law with the abominations of the Gentiles. The exhibition of His severity, which He had referred to, might indeed have sufficed for the instruction of His people; but in order to influence them more strongly, He at the same time adduces the way pointed out to them in the Law, which would not suffer them to go astray, if only they refused not to follow God. For that the Gentiles, who were destitute of light, should have been drawn aside in every direction was not surprising; but whilst they thus proved their blindness, it behooved true believers, on the contrary, to testify that they were not children of darkness, but of light. And to this Paul seems to allude, when he exhorts believers not to walk, like the Gentiles, “in the vanity of their mind.” (Eph 4:17.) On this account God not only commends to them His precepts and statutes, but also His ordinances ( custodias,) because He had omitted nothing in the Law which would be useful for the direction of men’s lives. The sum is, that unless they order themselves constantly by the doctrine which enlightens them, the same destruction awaited them also which was about to overwhelm the (Canaanitish) nations.
Fuente: Calvin’s Complete Commentary
(26) Ye shall therefore keep my statutes.As the perpetration of the above named abominations entailed such disastrous consequences both to the land and to its inhabitants, the strict observance of the Divine statutes is enjoined upon all alike, whether they be Israelites by race or strangers who took up their abode amongst them and joined the Jewish community. (See Lev. 17:9.)
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
26. The stranger in all his moral conduct must be coerced into obedience. In his speculative religious beliefs he was left free. This was three thousand years before Roger Williams. In Deu 14:21 the alien was left more at liberty in eating, and the Hebrew in selling to him the flesh of the animal that died of itself.
Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
Lev 18:26 Ye shall therefore keep my statutes and my judgments, and shall not commit [any] of these abominations; [neither] any of your own nation, nor any stranger that sojourneth among you:
Ver. 26. Ye shall therefore keep. ] Unless ye be ambitious of a like destruction. Luk 13:3
Ye shall therefore keep my statutes.
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
Ye. In some codices, with Samaritan Pentateuch, Septuagint, Syr, and Vulgate, this “Ye” has no emphasis.
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
keep: Lev 18:5, Lev 18:30, Deu 4:1, Deu 4:2, Deu 4:40, Deu 12:32, Psa 105:44, Psa 105:45, Luk 8:15, Luk 11:28, Joh 14:15, Joh 14:21-23, Joh 15:14
nor any stranger: Lev 17:8, Lev 17:10
Reciprocal: Exo 21:1 – the judgments Exo 23:24 – do after Lev 18:4 – General Lev 20:22 – statutes Deu 12:31 – Thou Deu 18:9 – General Eze 18:12 – hath committed Eze 18:17 – that hath not Eze 33:26 – work
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Lev 18:26. Nor any stranger In nation or religion, of what kind soever. For though they might not force them to submit to their religion, yet they might restrain them from the public contempt of the Jewish laws, and from the violation of natural laws, which, besides the offence against God and nature, were matters of evil example to the Israelites themselves.