Verse 6
6. To do a trespass This embraces offences against the right of property, such as denying and withholding a deposit, finding and concealing lost goods, getting possessions by violence or by fraud, and concealing the wrong by lies and perjury.
Against the Lord The cardinal ethical principle involved in this is, that the creature is so intimately related to the Creator that any infringement of his rights dishonours and displeases his “Great Original.” Hence it follows, that all that morality is radically defective which treats our neighbour as a mere man, and ignores the obligations springing from his relation to God. In other words, no man can keep the second table of the law while disregarding the first; no man can love his neighbour as himself unless he loves God with all his heart.
Guilty Hebrew, asham, to be in debt or at fault. For this the trespass offering, or asham, was prescribed. See on Leviticus 6:1-7, of which this law is an epitome.
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