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in their way with greediness, but to consider diligently what was before them, that they might learn in other things to ask questions for conscience' sake. Those that flew upon the spoiled sinned, 1Sa 14:32,33. If a man did, through ignorance or inconsideration, eat the flesh of any beast not duly slain, he must wash himself and his clothes, else he bore his iniquity, Le 17:15,16. The pollution was ceremonial, so was the purification from it; but if a man slighted the prescribed method of cleansing, or would not submit, he thereby contracted moral guilt. See the nature of a remedial law: he that obeys it has the benefit of it; he that does not, not only remains under his former guilt, but adds to that guilt of contemning the provisions made by divine grace for his relief, and sins against the remedy.
16 But if he wash them not, nor bathe his flesh; then he shall bear his
iniquity.
Leviticus-18
Acts of Immorality Forbidden
1 And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, 2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, I am the
Lord your God.
After divers ceremonial institutions, God here returns to the enforcement of moral precepts. The former are still of use to us as types, the latter still binding as laws. We have here,
1 The sacred authority by which these laws are enacted: I am the Lord your God (Le 18:1,4,30), and I am the Lord, Le 18:5,6,21. "The Lord, who has a right to rule all; your God, who has a peculiar right to rule you." Jehovah is the fountain of being, and therefore the fountain of power, whose we are, whom we are bound to serve, and who is able to punish all disobedience. "Your God to whom you have consented, in