{"collection":"Bible & Christianity","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bib/cmt/wesley/lev020.htm","path":"bib/cmt/wesley/lev020.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/bib/cmt/wesley/lev020.htm","text":"Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley, [1754-65]\n \nLeviticus 20:2\n \nlev 20:2\nThe people - Here follow the punishments of the crimes forbidden in the former chapters. \nLeviticus 20:3\n \nlev 20:3\nI will set my face against that man - Deal with him as an enemy, and make him a monument of my justice. To defile my sanctuary - Because the sanctuary was defiled by gross abominations committed in that city or land where God's sanctuary was: or because by these actions they declared to all men that they esteemed the sanctuary and service of God abominable and vile, by preferring such odious idolatry before it. And to profane my name - Partly by despising it themselves, partly by disgracing it to others, and giving them occasion to blaspheme it, and to abhor the true religion. \nLeviticus 20:4\n \nlev 20:4\nHide their eyes - Wink at his fault, and forbear to accuse and punish him. \nLeviticus 20:6\n \nlev 20:6\nTo go a whoring - To seek counsel or help from them. \nLeviticus 20:8\n \nlev 20:8\nWho sanctify you - Who separate you from all nations, and from their impurities and idolatries, to be a peculiar people to myself; and who give you my grace to keep my statutes. \nLeviticus 20:9\n \nlev 20:9\nCurseth - This is not here meant of every perverse expression, but of bitter reproaches or imprecations. His blood shall be upon him - He is guilty of his own death: he deserves to die for so unnatural a crime. \nLeviticus 20:12\n \nlev 20:12\nConfusion - By perverting the order which God hath appointed, and making the same off - spring both his own child and his grandchild. \nLeviticus 20:13\n \nlev 20:13\nPut to death - Except the one party was forced by the other. See Deu 22:25. \nLeviticus 20:14\n \nlev 20:14\nThey - All who consented to it. \nLeviticus 20:15\n \nlev 20:15\nSlay the beast - Partly for the prevention of monstrous births, partly to blot out the memory of so loathsome a crime. \nLeviticus 20:17\n \nlev 20:17\nSee her nakedness - In this and several of the following verses, uncovering nakedness plainly appears to mean not marriage, but fornication or adultery. \nLeviticus 20:20\n \nlev 20:20\nThey shall die childless - Either shall be speedily cut off ere they can have a child by that incestuous conjunction; if this seem a less crime than most of the former incestuous mixtures, and therefore the magistrate forbear to punish it with death; yet they shall either have no children from such an unlawful bed, or their children shall die before them. \nLeviticus 20:21\n \nlev 20:21\nHis brother's wife - Except in the case allowed by God, Deu 25:5. \nLeviticus 20:27\n \nlev 20:27\nA man or a woman that hath a familiar spirit, shall surely be put to death - They that are in league with the devil, have in effect made a covenant with death: and so shall their doom be.","title":"Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible: Leviticus: Leviticus Chapter 20","type":"page"}