The Pulpit Commentary - Leviticus 22:27-28
The culture of kindness. The words of the text remind us, by contrast, of two truths which are of value to us as disciples of Christ. 1 . That the human spirit is never too young to be offered to God, whether 2 . That two generations of the same family may offer themselves simultaneously to the service of God. Parent and child have not unfrequently made profession, in the same hour, of attachment to Christ, and have simultaneously "given themselves unto the Lord." But the main... read more
The Pulpit Commentary - Leviticus 22:26-27
Extreme youth is to be regarded as a blemish in an animal in the same way as other defects. During the young creature's first week of existence it is not considered as having arrived at the perfection of its individual and separate life, and therefore only from the eighth day and thenceforth it shall be accepted for an offering made by fire unto the Lord. Up to what ago an animal might be offered is not stated. Gideon is narrated as offering a bullock of seven years old ( 6:25 ). read more