offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving of that which is leavened, and proclaim free will offerings and brag about them; for this pleases you, you children of Israel,” says the Lord GOD.
ExplanationCommentary
Verse 5. With. Hebrew mechamets, ( Bible.) also “without leaven.” It was expressly forbidden, (Leviticus 2:11) though not in the first fruits. Leviticus 23:17.—It, to beg that God would remember you. Numbers 10:10. Hence the Pharisees did so when they gave alms, (Matthew 6:2. Calmet.) but out of ostentation. Bible.—Septuagint “And they read the law of their own invention, (Theod.) or of God, out of the land, (which the Jews were not to do. Saint John Chrysostom or. 3. c. Jud. Const. Apost. vi. 24.) and proclaimed praise or confession.” Bible.—These interpreters read inaccurately, ( Calmet.) krau méuts thure, and so forth yet S. Jerom explains their words of heretics reading the Scriptures out of the true Church, and misapplying them.