They assembled themselves together against Moses and against Aaron, and said to them, “You take too much on yourself, since all the congregation are holy, everyone of them, and the LORD is among them! Why do you lift yourselves up above the LORD’s assembly?”
ExplanationCommentary
Verse 3. Let it be enough. Hebrew rab, “too much you take upon you;” or “suffice it for you.” Sept.—Holy ones, as deserving of the priesthood as yourselves, verse 10. Why then would you treat them as your inferiors? We will throw off the yoke, and assert our just rights. Calmet.—On the same plea, Luther (de abrog. Missa,) rejects all ecclesiastical hierarchy, and will have no distinct priesthood, because all Christians are called priests, (Revelation 1) and a holy priesthood, 1 Peter 2:5. Worthington.—But they do not take notice that the apostle immediately explains himself, by saying, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, and to declare the virtues of Christ; in which sense they are also styled a kingly priesthood. ib. verse 9. Bible.