Here is, I. A general law against all conformity to the corrupt usages of the heathen, Lev. 18:1–5. II. Particular laws, 1. Against incest, Lev. 18:6–18. 2. Against beastly lusts, and barbarous idolatries, Lev. 18:19–23. III. The enforcement of these laws from the ruin of the Canaanites, Lev.

After divers ceremonial institutions, God here returns to the enforcement of moral precepts. The former are still of use to us as types, the latter still binding as laws. We have here, 1. The sacred authority by which these laws are enacted: I am the Lord your God (Lev. 18:1 Lev. 18:4 Lev.

These laws relate to the seventh commandment, and, no doubt, are obligatory on us under the gospel, for they are consonant to the very light and law of nature: one of the articles, that of a man’s having his father’s wife, the apostle speaks of as a sin not so much as named among the Gentiles, 1…

Here is, I. A law to preserve the honour of the marriage-bed, that it should not be unseasonably used , nor invaded by an adulterer, Lev. 18:20. II. A law against that which was the most unnatural idolatry, causing their children to pass through the fire to Moloch, Lev. 18:21.