The Pulpit Commentary - Leviticus 6:2
This verse would be better translated as follows:— If a soul sin, and commit a trespass against the Lord, and falsely deny to his neighbour something that was delivered to him to keep, or something that he had received in pawn, or something that he had taken away by violence, or hath got something by oppression from his neighbour. Cf. the injunction in Le Leviticus 19:11 : "Ye shall not steal, neither deal falsely, neither lie one to another." Exodus 22:7-13 contains earlier... read more
The Pulpit Commentary - Leviticus 6:1-7
Trespasses done wittingly. These were acts of lying, fraud, deceit, violence, or any social wrong involving conscious trespass on the rights of our neighbour. I. SOCIAL MORALITY RESTS UPON RELIGION . Offenses against neighbours, offenses against God. No true support of society apart from faith. Follies of the modern skeptical school. Enthusiasm of humanity, atheism, development of morality out of a physical basis,—mere dreams of the intellect. Facts of history show that... read more