Leviticus 3
DOYLYLeviticus 3:17
- — neither fat nor blood.] It is not meant of the fat which is mingled with the flesh of the animal, but of that of the entrails, which, as was before mentioned, was to be burnt at the altar. Bp. Patrick.
The fat was to be the Lord’s, by way of suggestion, that our offerings to God ought to be the richest and the choicest in their kind. Among other reasons assigned for the prohibition to eat fat, it is supposed that an opposition was intended to the practices of idolaters, who were wont to feast on the fat of their sacrifices.
— nor blood.] As the blood of the sacrifices was a figure of the blood of the Messiah, so its being forbidden to be eaten implied how sacred and precious a thing it was. Biblioth. Bibl. See note on chap. vii. 26.
Chap. IV. ver. 1. And the Lord spake] The repetition of these words seems to imply that the following precepts were delivered at a different time from the preceding. We now proceed to “sin offerings,” or offerings to be made by those who had offended God, in expiation of their sins. Bp. Patrick.