利未记 19:27-28 RCUVSS

George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary - Leviticus 19:27

Cut your hair, &c. This, and other such like things, of themselves indifferent, were forbidden by God, that they might not imitate the Egyptians or other infidels, who practised these things out of superstition, in honour of their false deities. (Challoner) --- The pagans consecrated locks of hair, and their beard, when it was first cut, to Apollo, the river gods, the hours, Esculapius, &c. Some, at Rome, hung the hair on a tree. (Tirinus) --- The Arabians and Mac'e6 left only a tuft of... read more

George Haydock

George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary - Leviticus 19:28

Dead. Adonis or Osiris; as if you were mourning for them, in which sense the former verse may be explained. At funerals it was customary to cut off the hair. Achilles and his soldiers did so at the death of Patroclus. (Homer) --- The Persians also cut the manes of their horses, to shew their grief for the loss of Masistius, (Herod. ix. 24,) as Alexander did when Heph'e6stion died. (Plutarch) --- The Egyptians, Assyrians, &c., cut their hair on the like occasions, and the Hebrews did so too;... read more

Johann Peter Lange

Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures: Critical, Doctrinal and Homiletical - Leviticus 19:1-37

THIRD SECTIONHoliness of Conduct towards God and ManLeviticus 19:1-161And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, 2Speak unto all the congregation1 or the children of Israel, and say unto them, Ye shall be holy: for I the Lord your God am holy.3Ye shall fear every man his mother,2 and his father, and keep my sabbaths: I am the Lord your God.4Turn ye not unto idols,3 nor make to yourselves molten gods: I am the Lord your God.5And if ye offer a sacrifice of peace offerings unto the Lord, ye shall... read more

G. Campbell Morgan

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible - Leviticus 19:1-37

The more positive habits of separation are insisted on by the repetition of laws already given, with one reiterated emphasis, namely, the fact that the God of this people is Jehovah. There was, first, a general call to holiness based upon the essential reason, 'Ye shall be holy; for I Jehovah your God am holy." This is the profoundest reason that can possibly be assigned. The holiness of Jehovah must be exemplified in His people. Every departure from the pathway of holiness is a profaning of... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Leviticus 19:26-29

Bans In Religious Matters: Warnings Against Pagan Practises (Leviticus 19:26-29 ). There now follow in the name of Yahweh a number of provisions banning various aspects connected with ‘other-worldly’ practises which were forbidden. They were to look to Yahweh and Yahweh alone, and He was against these things. They were contrary to what He was. Leviticus 19:26 “You (p) shall not eat anything with the blood: neither shall you (p) use enchantments, nor practise divination.” As has already been... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Leviticus 19:26-32

Leviticus 19:26-Jonah : . Miscellaneous Precepts, all found elsewhere, except the last. Most of the forbidden actions have some magical significance, e.g. cutting the hair in a special fashion, or maiming oneself (originally, to delude the dangerous spirits of the dead while they are still near, at or after a funeral, or perhaps as a respectful offering to them, see p. 110). Leviticus 19:29 probably refers to the licentious cults of nature and other pagan deities. For Leviticus 19:31, cf.... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Leviticus 19:27

The corners of your heads; i.e. your temples: Ye shall not cut off the hair of your heads round about your temples. This the Gentiles did, either for the worship of the devils or idols, to whom young men used to consecrate their hair, being cut off from their heads, as Homer, Plutarch, and many others write; or in funerals or immoderate mournings, as appears from Isaiah 15:2; Jeremiah 48:37. And the like is to be thought concerning the beard or the hair in the corner, i.e. corners of the beard.... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Leviticus 19:28

Any cuttings in your flesh, which the Gentiles commonly did both in the worship of their idols, and in their solemn mournings, Jeremiah 16:6. For the dead; Heb. for a soul, i.e. either, 1. Improperly, for a dead body; as that word is sometimes used, as Leviticus 19:28; Leviticus 21:1; Numbers 6:6; or, 2. Properly, for the soul; Ye shall not cut your flesh or your bodies, for your souls, or upon pretence of doing your souls any good, either in way of mortification, or in the worship of God, as... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Leviticus 19:1-37

Practical Piety: Religion in all RelationshipsSUGGESTIVE READINGSLeviticus 19:2.—Speak unto all the congregation of the children of Israel, and say: Nowhere else in the whole of Leviticus does this direction to address “all the congregation” occur; a fact which indicates the importance of this section of the decalogue. And in the precepts of this chapter, traversing the entire range of personal, social, and religious life, we have the law summarized—“the whole duty of man” in epitome.Reverence... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Leviticus 19:1-37

Chapter 19Now God continues in this same vein, as He moves into chapter nineteen.Speak unto all of the congregation of the children of Israel, and say unto them, Ye shall be holy: for I the Lord your God am holy. You shall reverence every man his mother, and his father, and keep my sabbaths: I am the Lord your God. Turn ye not unto idols, nor make to yourselves molten gods: for I am the Lord your God. [Notice the repetition over and over, "I am the Lord your God, you're not to have idols, and... read more