
Text -- Leviticus 18:22 (NET)




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Clarke -> Lev 18:22
Clarke: Lev 18:22 - -- With mankind - This abominable crime, frequent among the Greeks and Romans as well as the Canaanites, may be punished with death in this country.
With mankind - This abominable crime, frequent among the Greeks and Romans as well as the Canaanites, may be punished with death in this country.
Calvin -> Lev 18:22
Calvin: Lev 18:22 - -- We learn from these passages that the people were not only prohibited from adultery, but also from all sins 61 which are repugnant to the modesty of ...
We learn from these passages that the people were not only prohibited from adultery, but also from all sins 61 which are repugnant to the modesty of nature itself. In order that all impurity may be the more detestable, He enumerates two species of unnatural lust, from whence it is evident that when men indulge themselves in this respect, they are carried away by an impulse, which is more than beastly, to defile themselves by shameful wickedness. The beasts are satisfied with natural connection; it is therefore a gross enormity that this distinction should be confounded by man endowed with reason; for what is the use of our judgment and intelligent faculties if it be not that greater self-restraint should exist in us than in the brute animals? It is plain, therefore, that they must be blinded in a horrible manner who so shamefully defile themselves, as Paul says. (Rom 1:28.) The madness of lust has, however, invented several monstrous vices, whose names it would be better to bury, if God had not chosen that these shameful monuments should exist, to inspire us with fear and horror. It has at length advanced to such excesses, that men created in God’s image, both male and female, have had connection with brutes.
Defender -> Lev 18:22
Defender: Lev 18:22 - -- Homosexuality has become so common today, as in the ancient pagan tribes, that it is considered an acceptable - or even preferable - life style. God, ...
Homosexuality has become so common today, as in the ancient pagan tribes, that it is considered an acceptable - or even preferable - life style. God, however, who created men and women and ordained the proper and fruitful institution of marriage and the family unit, calls it abomination. Despite modern theories, it is not a natural condition. It is a learned behavior which, like any other sin prohibited by a holy God, can become a very difficult behavior to change when long practiced. Nevertheless, the Bible clearly forbids - and nowhere more forcefully than here in this Lev 18:1 of Leviticus - not only homosexuality but also adultery, incest, bestiality and any other type of sexual commerce except that in monogamous, life-long marriage. God can and does forgive these and other sins (that is what the Levitical offerings in this same book teach). Persistent and unrepentant continuance however, will eventually result in the judgment implicit in Rom 1:27, "receiving in themselves that recompense of their error which was meet.""
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Haydock -> Lev 18:22
Haydock: Lev 18:22 - -- Abomination, punished so severely in the Sodomites, Genesis xix. Yet, even the philosophers of Greece were not at all ashamed of it. Bardesanes ass...
Abomination, punished so severely in the Sodomites, Genesis xix. Yet, even the philosophers of Greece were not at all ashamed of it. Bardesanes assures us, that the eastern nations punished it with death, and would not allow the guilty the honours of burial. Those beyond the Euphrates were so shocked at it, that they would kill themselves if they were only accused of such a crime. (Ap. Eusebius, præp. vi. 10.)
Gill -> Lev 18:22
Gill: Lev 18:22 - -- Thou shall not lie with mankind as with womankind,.... By carnal knowledge of them, and carnal copulation with them, and mixing bodies in like manner:...
Thou shall not lie with mankind as with womankind,.... By carnal knowledge of them, and carnal copulation with them, and mixing bodies in like manner: this is the sin commonly called sodomy, from the inhabitants of Sodom, greatly addicted to it, for which their city was destroyed by fire: those that are guilty of this sin, are, by the apostle, called "abusers of themselves with mankind", 1Co 6:9,
it is abomination; it is so to God, as the above instance of his vengeance shows, and ought to be abominable to men, as being not only contrary to the law of God, but even contrary to nature itself, and what is never to be observed among brute creatures.

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TSK Synopsis -> Lev 18:1-30
MHCC -> Lev 18:1-30
MHCC: Lev 18:1-30 - --Here is a law against all conformity to the corrupt usages of the heathen. Also laws against incest, against brutal lusts, and barbarous idolatries; a...
Matthew Henry -> Lev 18:19-30
Matthew Henry: Lev 18:19-30 - -- Here is, I. A law to preserve the honour of the marriage-bed, that it should not be unseasonably used (Lev 18:19), nor invaded by an adulterer, Lev ...
Keil-Delitzsch -> Lev 18:19-23
Keil-Delitzsch: Lev 18:19-23 - --
Prohibition of other kinds of unchastity and of unnatural crimes . - Lev 18:19 prohibits intercourse with a woman during her uncleanness. טמאה...
Constable: Lev 17:1--27:34 - --II. The private worship of the Israelites chs. 17--27
The second major division of Leviticus deals with how the ...

Constable: Lev 17:1--20:27 - --A. Holiness of conduct on the Israelites' part chs. 17-20
All the commandments contained in chapters 17-...
