Trapp's Complete Commentary · Numbers Глава 3

These also [are] the generations of Aaron and Moses in the day [that] the LORD spake with Moses in mount Sinai.

Of Aaron and Moses. — Of Aaron by nature, of Moses by education and instruction. See 1 Corinthians 4:15 Galatians 4:12 , See Trapp on " 1 Corinthians 4:15 " See Trapp on " Galatians 4:12 " So the Jesuits call themselves padres, and require of their novices blind obedience, which is more than ever Moses did.

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These [are] the names of the sons of Aaron, the priests which were anointed, whom he consecrated to minister in the priest’s office.

Which were anointed. — And so should have walked, as became God’s anointed; leaving a sweet smell behind them everywhere; but they went out in a stench; they fell, as if they had not been anointed with oil. 2 Samuel 1:21

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And Nadab and Abihu died before the LORD, when they offered strange fire before the LORD, in the wilderness of Sinai, and they had no children: and Eleazar and Ithamar ministered in the priest’s office in the sight of Aaron their father.

And Nadab and Abihu. — Such a cross had David in his two eldest, Amnon and Absalom. See Trapp on " Leviticus 10:1 " See Trapp on " Leviticus 10:2 "

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And thou shalt give the Levites unto Aaron and to his sons: they [are] wholly given unto him out of the children of Israel.

They are wholly given unto him. — Heb. They are given, they are given. So the ministers of the gospel are called "gifts"; Ephesians 4:8 ; Ephesians 4:11 honoraries; such as Christ bestowed upon his Church at the day of his coronation, and solemn inauguration into his throne, at his wonderful ascension.

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And thou shalt appoint Aaron and his sons, and they shall wait on their priest’s office: and the stranger that cometh nigh shall be put to death.

And the stranger. — Though a Levite, yet if not of Aaron’s seed. Numbers 18:3 Hebrews 5:4 Let this be thought upon by our too bold intruders into the work of the ministry.

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