Lev 19:19, Mat 6:24, 9:16, Rom 11:6, 2Cor 1:12, 11:3, Jam 1:6-8, 3:10 | TSK | STEP | thy cattle gender.These practices might have been considered as altering the original constitution of God in creation; and this is the view which the Jews, and also Josephus and Philo, take of the subject. There were, probably, also both moral and political reasons for these prohibitions. With respect to heterogenous mixtures among cattle, it was probably forbidden, to prevent excitements to the abominations condemned in the preceding chapter. As to seeds, in many cases, it would be highly improper to sow different kinds in the same plot of ground. If oats and wheat, for instance, were sown together, the latter would be injured, and the former ruined. This prohibition may therefore be regarded as a prudential agricultural maxim. As to different kinds of garments, the prohibition might be intended against pride and vanity in clothing. mingled.

Leviticus 19:19

thy cattle gender.These practices might have been considered as altering the original constitution of God in creation; and this is the view which the Jews, and also Josephus and Philo, take of the subject. There were, probably, also both moral and political reasons for these prohibitions. With respect to heterogenous mixtures among cattle, it was probably forbidden, to prevent excitements to the abominations condemned in the preceding chapter. As to seeds, in many cases, it would be highly improper to sow different kinds in the same plot of ground. If oats and wheat, for instance, were sown together, the latter would be injured, and the former ruined. This prohibition may therefore be regarded as a prudential agricultural maxim. As to different kinds of garments, the prohibition might be intended against pride and vanity in clothing.

Ge 36:24; 2Sa 13:29; 18:9; 1Ki 1:33; Ezr 2:66

mingled.

De 22:9-11; Mt 9:16,17; Ro 11:6; 2Co 6:14-17; Ga 3:9-11

Matthew 6:24

serve.

4:10; Jos 24:15,19,20; 1Sa 7:3; 1Ki 18:21; 2Ki 17:33,34,41

Eze 20:39; Zep 1:5; Lu 16:13; Ro 6:16-22; Ga 1:10; 2Ti 4:10; Jas 4:4

1Jo 2:15,16

mammon.

Lu 16:9,11,13; 1Ti 6:9,10,17

Matthew 9:16

new cloth. or, raw, or unwrought cloth. for.

Ge 33:14; Ps 125:3; Isa 40:11; Joh 16:12; 1Co 3:1,2; 13:13

Romans 11:6

And if.

3:27,28; 4:4,5; 5:20,21; De 9:4-6; 1Co 15:10; Ga 2:21; 5:4; Eph 2:4-9

2Ti 1:9; Tit 3:5

otherwise work.That is, it loses its character, or nature,--that of claiming reward as a matter of right.

2 Corinthians 1:12

our rejoicing.

Job 13:15; 23:10-12; 27:5,6; 31:1-40; Ps 7:3-5; 44:17-21; Isa 38:3

Ac 24:16; Ro 9:1; 1Co 4:4; Ga 6:4; 1Ti 1:5,19,20; Heb 13:18

1Pe 3:16,21; 1Jo 3:19-22

simplicity.

11:3; Ro 16:18,19

godly.

2:17; 8:8; Jos 24:14; 1Co 5:8; Eph 6:14; Php 1:10; Tit 2:7

not.

17; 4:2; 10:2-4; 12:15-19; 1Co 2:4,5,13; 15:10; Jas 3:13-18; 4:6

we have.That is, "We have conducted ourselves;" for [anastrepho ] in Greek, and {conversatio} in Latin, are used to denote the whole of a man's conduct, the tenor and practice of his life.