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Purity, Grace, and Fragrance
The meal offering's ingredients were deeply symbolic. Commentators explain that the 'fine flour' represented purity and the best of one's labor. The 'oil' was a symbol of God's grace and the anointing of the Holy Spirit. The 'frankincense' provided a sweet aroma, signifying the pleasing and acceptable nature of the offering to God.
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Leviticus
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Albert Barnes
On Leviticus 2:1
18th Century
Theologian
A meat offering - Better translated in Leviticus 2:4 as an oblation of a meat offering. The relevant Hebrew terms are קרבן qorb…
Charles Ellicott
On Leviticus 2:1
19th Century
Bishop
A meat offering. —Better, an oblation of a meat offering, as the same two words are rendered in Leviticus 2:4;[Reference …
John Calvin
On Leviticus 2:1
16th Century
Theologian
And when any will offer. In this chapter Moses prescribes the rules for those offerings to which the name of minha is specificall…
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John Gill
On Leviticus 2:1
17th Century
Pastor
And when any man will offer a meat offering to the Lord ,
&c.] Or, "when a soul", and which Onkelos renders "a man",…
Matthew Henry
On Leviticus 2:1–11
17th Century
Minister
Meat-offerings may typify Christ, as presented to God for us, and as being the Bread of life to our souls; but they rather seem to denote our oblig…