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2. As a proper acknowledgment of the mercy of God to them in their food. This was like a quitrent, by which they testified their dependence upon God, their thankfulness to him, and their expectations from him as their owner and bountiful benefactor, who giveth to all life, and breath, and food convenient. Thus must they honour the Lord with their substance, and, in token of their eating and drinking to his glory, must consecrate some of their meat and drink to his immediate service. Those that now, with a grateful charitable heart, deal out their bread to the hungry, and provide for the necessities of those that are destitute of daily food, and when they eat the fat and drink the sweet themselves send portions to those for whom nothing is prepared, offer unto God an acceptable meat-offering. The prophet laments it as one of the direful effects of famine that thereby the meat-offering and drink-offering were cut off from the house of the Lord (Joe 1:9), and reckoned it the greatest blessing of plenty that it would be the revival of them, Joe 2:14.
2 And he shall bring it to Aaron’s sons the priests: and he shall take
thereout his handful of the flour thereof, and of the oil thereof, with all the frankincense thereof; and the priest shall burn the memorial of it upon the altar, to be an offering made by fire, of a sweet savor unto the Lord:
The laws of the meat-offerings were these:--
1 The ingredients must always be fine flour and oil, two staple commodities of the land of Canaan, De 8:8. Oil was to them then in their food what butter is now to us. If it was undressed, the oil must be poured upon the flour (Le 2:1); if cooked, it must be mingled with the flour, Le 2:4, &c.
2. If it was flour unbaked, besides the oil it must have frankincense put upon it, which was to be burnt with it (Le 2:1,2), for the perfuming of the altar; in allusion to this,