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Éxodo 22:31
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Y seréis para mí hombres santos. No comeréis carne despedazada por las fieras en el campo; a los perros la echaréis.
Y habis de serme varones santos: y no comeris carne arrebatada de las fieras en el campo; a los perros la echaris.
Y habis de serme varones santos; y no comeris carne arrebatada de las fieras en el campo; a los perros la echaris.
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
holy: Exodus 19:5, Exodus 19:6, Leviticus 11:45, Leviticus 19:2, Deuteronomy 14:21, 1 Peter 1:15, 1 Peter 1:16
neither: Leviticus 17:15, Leviticus 17:16, Leviticus 20:25, Leviticus 22:8, Deuteronomy 14:21, Ezekiel 4:14, Ezekiel 44:31, Acts 10:14, Acts 15:20
Reciprocal: Genesis 31:39 - torn of Leviticus 7:24 - beast Leviticus 11:40 - eateth Ezra 7:26 - whether it be Ezra 9:2 - the holy seed
Gill's Notes on the Bible
And ye shall be holy men unto me,.... They were so by God's act of election, not special and particular, but general and national; choosing and separating them to be an holy people to him, above all the people on the face of the earth, and in a ceremonial sense they observing laws and appointments of God of this kind; which is the sense here intended, as appears by what follows: all men, and so these Israelites, ought to be holy in a moral sense, and some are holy in a spiritual and evangelical sense, being made holy by the Spirit of God; of these the Apostle Peter speaks, in allusion to this, and such like passages, 1 Peter 2:9
neither shall ye eat any flesh that is torn of beasts in the field; or in the house, as Jarchi notes; but the Scripture, as he observes, speaks of the place where it is more usual for beasts to tear, and so Aben Ezra; otherwise what is torn elsewhere, or by whatsoever accident it is bruised and maimed, was not to be eaten: ye shall cast it to the dogs: for even a stranger was not to eat of it, or if he did he was unclean, and was obliged to wash his clothes, and bathe himself,
Leviticus 17:15 and yet Jarchi interprets this figuratively of such as are like dogs, meaning the Gentiles, whom the Jews used to call so, see
Matthew 15:26. An Heathen poet gives instructions perfectly agreeable to this law;
"do not (says he) eat flesh fed upon by beasts, but leave the remains to the swift dogs o.''
o μηδε τι θηροβορον &c. Phocylides, ver. 136, 137.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
The sanctification of the nation was emphatically symbolized by strictness of diet as regards both the kind of animal, and the mode of slaughtering. See Leviticus 11:0; Leviticus 17:0.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Exodus 22:31. Neither shall ye eat - flesh - torn of beasts in the field — This has been supposed to be an ordinance against eating flesh cut off the animal while alive, and so the Syriac seems to have understood it. If we can credit Mr. Bruce, this is a frequent custom in Abyssinia; but human nature revolts from it. The reason of the prohibition against eating the flesh of animals that had been torn, or as we term it worried in the field, appears to have been simply this: That the people might not eat the blood, which in this case must be coagulated in the flesh; and the blood, being the life of the beast, and emblematical of the blood of the covenant, was ever to be held sacred, and was prohibited from the days of Noah. Genesis 9:4.
IN the conclusion of this chapter we see the grand reason of all the ordinances and laws which it contains. No command was issued merely from the sovereignty of God. He gave them to the people as restraints on disorderly passions, and incentives to holiness; and hence he says, Ye shall be holy men unto me. Mere outward services could neither please him nor profit them; for from the very beginning of the world the end of the commandment was love out of a pure heart and good conscience, and faith unfeigned, 1 Timothy 1:5. And without these accompaniments no set of religious duties, however punctually performed, could be pleasing in the sight of that God who seeks truth in the inward parts, and in whose eyes the faith that worketh by love is alone valuable. A holy heart and a holy, useful life God invariably requires in all his worshippers. Reader, how standest thou in his sight?
