Exodus 19:15 - The Pulpit Commentary - Bible Study & Commentary

Exodus 19:15 - Exposition

Come not at your wives . Compare 1 Samuel 21:4 , 1 Samuel 21:5 ; 1 Corinthians 7:5 . A similar obligation lay on the Egyptian priests (Porphyr. De Abstin . 4.7); and the idea which underlies it was widespread in the ancient world The subject is well treated, from a Christian point of view, by Pope Gregory the First, in his answers to S . Augustine's questions (Bode, Hist . Eccl . 2.).

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Rev. Joseph S. Exell M.A. served as the editor of Clerical World, The Homiletical Quarterly and the Monthly Interpreter. Exell was also the editor for several other large commentary sets like The Men of the Bible, The Preacher's Homiletic Library and The Biblical Illustrator. Henry Donald Maurice Spence-Jones was the Vicar and Rural Dean of St. Pancras, London and the principal of Gloucester Theological College.... Show more

The Pulpit Commentary is a homiletic commentary on the Bible created during the nineteenth century under the direction of Rev. Joseph S. Exell and Henry Donald Maurice Spence-Jones. It consists of 23 volumes with 22,000 pages and 95,000 entries, and was written over a 30-year period with 100 contributors.... Show more

Exodus 19:15 - Exposition

Exodus 19:15 - Exposition

The Pulpit Commentary

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