These prohibitions given to the people at large (compare the margin reference) had a special fitness for the Hebrew priests. They were the instrume…

Make baldness upon their head.—The natural expression of grief, however, which the priests were to manifest for their previously mentioned…

They shall not make baldness upon their head For the dead, as Jarchi, Aben Ezra, and Ben Gersom; not shave their heads, o…

As these priests were types of Christ, so all ministers must be followers of him, that their example may teach others to imitate the Saviour. Witho…