{"id":3344,"date":"2022-09-24T00:08:42","date_gmt":"2022-09-24T05:08:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/exegetical-and-hermeneutical-commentary-of-leviticus-2017\/"},"modified":"2022-09-24T00:08:42","modified_gmt":"2022-09-24T05:08:42","slug":"exegetical-and-hermeneutical-commentary-of-leviticus-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/exegetical-and-hermeneutical-commentary-of-leviticus-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Leviticus 20:17"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 align='center'><b><i> And if a man shall take his sister, his father&#8217;s daughter, or his mother&#8217;s daughter, and see her nakedness, and she see his nakedness; it [is] a wicked thing; and they shall be cut off in the sight of their people: he hath uncovered his sister&#8217;s nakedness; he shall bear his iniquity. <\/i><\/b><\/h3>\n<p><P STYLE=\"text-indent: 0.75em\"><B>Cut off &#8230; &#8211; <\/B>See <span class='bible'>Exo 31:14<\/span> note. The more full expression here used probably refers to some special form of public excommunication, accompanied, it may be, by expulsion from the camp.<\/P><\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: Albert Barnes&#8217; Notes on the Bible<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p><P> <B>Seeing<\/B> is here understood, either, <\/P> <P STYLE=\"margin-left: 0.85em;text-indent: -0.85em\"> 1. Properly, and so God would cut off the occasions of further filthiness. Or rather, <\/P> <P STYLE=\"margin-left: 0.85em;text-indent: -0.85em\"> 2. Improperly, for touching her or lying with her; for, <\/P> <P STYLE=\"margin-left: 0.85em;text-indent: -0.85em\"> 1. The sense of <I>seeing<\/I> is oft put for other senses, as for <I>hearing<\/I>, <span class='bible'>Gen 42:1<\/span>, compared with <span class='bible'>Act 7:12<\/span>; <span class='bible'>Exo 20:18<\/span> <span class='bible'>Rev 1:12<\/span>; and for <I>touching<\/I>, as <span class='bible'>Joh 20:25<\/span>,<span class='bible'>29<\/span>. <\/P> <P STYLE=\"margin-left: 0.85em;text-indent: -0.85em\"> 2. That act is expressed by words parallel to this of <I>seeing<\/I>, as by <I>uncovering<\/I>, or <I>discovering<\/I>, and by <I>knowing<\/I>, <span class='bible'>Gen 4:1<\/span>. <\/P> <P STYLE=\"margin-left: 0.85em;text-indent: -0.85em\"> 3. So it is directly explained in the following words, <\/P> <P><B>he hath uncovered his sisters nakedness, <\/B>which manifestly signifies lying with her. <\/P> <P STYLE=\"margin-left: 0.85em;text-indent: -0.85em\"> 4. It is not probable that an equal punishment would have been appointed to an immodest sight, and to the highest act of filthiness. <\/P> <P STYLE=\"margin-left: 0.85em;text-indent: -0.85em\"> 5. Nor seems there to be any reason why this crime should be restrained to this rather than to any other relations, when it was as great, yea, a greater crime in some other relations. <I>In the sight of their people<\/I>, i.e. publicly, for the terror and caution of others. <\/P> <\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p><strong>And if a man shall take his sister, his father&#8217;s daughter, or his mother&#8217;s daughter<\/strong>,&#8230;. Take her to be his wife, or commit lewdness with her, whether she be his sister by both father and mother&#8217;s side, or whether by one only, either way she is his sister, and it is not lawful to marry her, or lie with her, see <span class='bible'>Le 18:9<\/span>:<\/p>\n<p><strong>and see her nakedness, and she see his nakedness<\/strong>; which is not to be understood of an immodest view, exposing to each other what should not be seen, and pleasing themselves wills such obscene sights, but of the act of lying together, for so it is afterwards explained by a phrase frequently used to express that action by; and it denotes, as Aben Ezra observes, their mutual consent and agreement in it:<\/p>\n<p><strong>it [is] a wicked thing<\/strong>; and by no means to be done; it is a breach of a former law, it is a scandalous and reproachful thing, and the word is sometimes used for reproach, as in <span class='bible'>Pr 14:34<\/span>;<\/p>\n<p><strong>and they shall be cut off in the sight of their people<\/strong>; by death, either by the hand of the civil magistrate, or by the hand of God, by the pestilence, as the Targum of Jonathan; Ben Gersom interprets it, of their dying childless, as in some following cases, <span class='bible'>Le 20:20<\/span>;<\/p>\n<p><strong>he hath uncovered his sister&#8217;s nakedness<\/strong>; or lay with her, which explains a preceding clause:<\/p>\n<p><strong>he shall bear his iniquity<\/strong>; the punishment of it, and he alone, as Aben Ezra observes.<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: John Gill&#8217;s Exposition of the Entire Bible<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p>(17) <strong>Take his sister.<\/strong>See <span class='bible'>Lev. 18:9<\/span>.<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: Ellicott&#8217;s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p> <strong> 17<\/strong>. <strong> <\/strong> <strong> Sister <\/strong> See <span class='bible'>Lev 18:9<\/span>; <span class='bible'>Lev 18:11<\/span>, notes. <\/p>\n<p><strong> Wicked thing <\/strong> Properly a <em> disgrace.<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: Whedon&#8217;s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p><strong><em><span class='bible'>Lev 20:17<\/span><\/em><\/strong><strong>. <\/strong><strong><em>They shall be cut off in the sight of their people<\/em><\/strong><strong><\/strong> Some, again, believe that this punishment implies that they <em>shall be separated <\/em>from the communion and covenant of Israel; and not, that they should be put to death. They think, that the punishments assigned in the other verses seem to prove this. <\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: Commentary on the Holy Bible by Thomas Coke<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p> Lev 20:17 And if a man shall take his sister, his father&rsquo;s daughter, or his mother&rsquo;s daughter, and see her nakedness, and she see his nakedness; it [is] a wicked thing; and they shall be cut off in the sight of their people: he hath uncovered his sister&rsquo;s nakedness; he shall bear his iniquity.<\/p>\n<p> Ver. 17. <strong> And see her nakedness.<\/strong> ] In the Pope&rsquo;s war against the Albigenses, those ancient French Protestants, when the bishops had taken a great town yielded to them, they commanded the inhabitants, both men and women, to depart stark naked, <em> Partibus illis, quae honeste nominari non possunt, sanctorum illorum cruciatorum oculis expositis,<\/em> saith Rivet, <em> a<\/em> not suffering them to hide from the impure eyes of those pope holy fathers those parts that nature would have covered. David that had faulted in looking lustfully on bathing Bathsheba, prays hard, after he had smarted for it, &#8220;Turn away mine eyes from beholding vanity,&#8221; &amp;c. Psa 119:37 <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo; <em> Cur aliquid vidi, cur noxia lumina feci?<\/em> &rdquo; &#8211; <em> Ovid.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n<p> See <span class='bible'>Hab 2:15<\/span> . Of looking comes lusting, especially when they do  , which is the apostle&rsquo;s word, 2Co 4:14 so look, as the archer at the mark. <\/p>\n<p><strong> <\/p>\n<p> It is a wicked thing.<\/strong> ] Heb., An impiety or reproach: <em> Chesed,<\/em> it is called, <em> per antiphrasin.<\/em> That may have a good name, the nature whereof is so ill that it is not to be named. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><em> a<\/em> <em> Jesuita Vapulans., <\/em> p. 331.<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: John Trapp&#8217;s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p>sister. See Lev 18:9. <\/p>\n<p>sight of their People. A special penalty is attached to this disgraceful thing. <\/p>\n<p>iniquity = perverseness. Hebrew &#8216;avon. App-44. <\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p>Lev 18:9, Gen 20:12, Deu 27:22, 2Sa 13:12, Eze 22:11 <\/p>\n<p>Reciprocal: Lev 5:1 &#8211; bear Lev 7:18 &#8211; bear Lev 17:16 &#8211; General Lev 18:6 &#8211; to uncover Lev 24:15 &#8211; bear his sin Num 5:31 &#8211; bear 2Sa 13:4 &#8211; my brother<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p>Lev 20:17. See her nakedness  In this and several of the following verses, uncovering nakedness plainly appears to mean not marriage, but fornication or adultery.<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: Joseph Bensons Commentary on the Old and New Testaments<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And if a man shall take his sister, his father&#8217;s daughter, or his mother&#8217;s daughter, and see her nakedness, and she see his nakedness; it [is] a wicked thing; and they shall be cut off in the sight of their people: he hath uncovered his sister&#8217;s nakedness; he shall bear his iniquity. 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