23And they shall teach my people the difference between the holy and profane, and cause them to discern between the unclean and the clean.
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Her priests have violated my law, and have profaned mine holy things: they have put no difference between the holy and profane, neither have they shewed difference between the unclean and the clean, and have hid their eyes from my sabbaths, and I am profaned among them.
And that ye may put difference between holy and unholy, and between unclean and clean; …
And the servant of the Lord must not strive; but be gentle unto all men, apt to teach, patient, …
My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children.
Her prophets are light and treacherous persons: her priests have polluted the sanctuary, they have done violence to the law.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 17-31)God’s priests must be regulars , not seculars ; and therefore here are rules laid down for them to govern themselves by and due encouragement given them to live up to those rules. Directions are here given, I. Concerning their clothes; they must wear linen garments when they went in to minister or do any service in the inner court, or in the sanctuary, and nothing that was woollen , because it wou…
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