Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Numbers 15:40
That ye may remember, and do all my commandments, and be holy unto your God.
That ye may remember and do all my commandments,…. Which is repeated, that the end and use of these fringes might be particularly taken notice of, and attended to; that so they might not satisfy themselves with and rest in this ceremony of wearing the fringes, but be found in the observance of every moral precept, and of every religious ordinance and duty:
and be holy unto your God: as in his presence, according to his will, and for his honour and glory, by keeping his holy commands, and living an holy life and conversation, well pleasing in his sight.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
Num 15:40 That ye may remember, and do all my commandments, and be holy unto your God.
Ver. 40. That ye may remember. ] Our memories are like strainers, nets, grates, that let the pure water run away, but retain mud, trash, &c. It is with us as with those in Psa 106:13 , “they soon forgat his works,” &c., and therefore we have need of all good helps.
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
holy. See note on Exo 3:5.
God. Hebrew. Elohim. App-4.
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
be holy: Lev 11:44, Lev 11:45, Lev 19:2, Rom 12:1, Eph 1:4, Col 1:2, 1Th 4:7, 1Pe 1:15, 1Pe 1:16
Reciprocal: Exo 34:32 – he gave Lev 22:31 – General
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Num 15:40. That ye may remember They were not to mistake the wearing of these fringes or borderings, as if they had real sanctity or religion in themselves, but to consider them as helps to their memories, and means of awakening them to a sense of their special relation to God, as the only object of their worship, their Governor and Judge. But although this, and many other memorial signs among the Jews, seem to have been admirably fitted to keep up in their minds the remembrance of their duty, and one would have imagined that, with such helps, they could scarce ever have omitted the practice of it; yet their example proves to us that all methods are insufficient to affect thoroughly the hearts of men, till God, according to his promise, to be fulfilled especially under the New Testament dispensation, write his laws on their hearts by his Holy Spirit, Jer 31:31, and Eze 36:26. This we should look for, and seek with all our hearts. When this is obtained, and not before, we shall be holy unto God, as Israel were here exhorted to be, that is, purged from sin, and sincerely devoted to God in soul and body.