“‘No meal offering which you shall offer to the LORD shall be made with yeast; for you shall burn no yeast, nor any honey, as an offering made by fire to the LORD.
ExplanationCommentary
Verse 11. Without leaven or honey. No leaven or honey was to be used in the sacrifice offered to God: to signify that we are to exclude from the pure worship of the gospel, all double-dealing and affection to carnal pleasures. Challoner.—The prohibition of leaven regarded these sacrifices. It was offered with the first-fruits, (Calmet. 23:17,) and perhaps also in peace-offerings. Calmet. 7:13. Honey is here rejected, as incompatible with the other ingredients, to admonish us to lead a penitential life, and to keep at a greater distance from the customs of the pagans, who generally accompanied their oblations with honey. Ezekiel 16:18. Herodotus (B. ii.) says, the Egyptians used honey in sacrifice. Calmet.—By unleavened bread, the Hebrews were reminded of their flight out of Egypt; and by refraining from honey, they were taught to act like men. Menochius.