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himself must not receive the image and superscription of these dunghill deities. Lastly, The prostituting of their daughters to uncleanness, which is here forbidden (Le 19:29), seems to have been practised by the heathen in their idolatrous worships, for with such abominations those unclean spirits which they worshipped were well pleased. And when lewdness obtained as a religious rite, and was committed in their temples, no marvel that the land became full of that wickedness, which, when it entered at the temple-doors, overspread the land like a mighty torrent, and bore down all the fences of virtue and modesty. The devil himself could not have brought such abominations into their lives if he had not first brought them into their worships. And justly were those given up to vile affections who forsook the holy God, and gave divine honours to impure spirits. Those that dishonour God are thus suffered to dishonour themselves and their families.
28 Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print
any marks upon you: I am the Lord.
29 Do not prostitute thy daughter, to cause her to be a whore; lest
the land fall to whoredom, and the land become full of wickedness.
30 Ye shall keep my Sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary: I am the
Lord.
A law for the preserving of the honour of the time and place appropriated to the service of God, Le 19:30. This would be a means to secure them both from the idolatries and superstitions of the heathen and from all immoralities in conversation.
1. Sabbaths must be religiously observed, and not those times mentioned (Le 19:26) to which the heathen had a superstitious regard.
2 The sanctuary must be reverenced: great care must be taken to approach the tabernacle with that purity and preparation which the law required, and to attend there with that humility, decency, and closeness of application which