Part XX.1 - Warnings Against The Sins Of The World

CHAPTER XX.

WARNINGS AGAINST THE SINS OF THE WORLD. THE Lord directs Moses again to speak unto the children of Israel. In this chapter many of the former injunctions are repeated, with the additional declarations that disregard to them would be followed by judgment. The proper motive was first presented with the commandment ; and, if that were not regarded, the fact of their having known the mighty deliverance of the Lord would not shelter them while disregarding His ordinances. His object was to separate them from the nations whom He was about to judge for these very evils, to teach them as His own holy people His will, and to enable them to distinguish between clean and unclean. If, therefore, they fell into the evil manners of the nations from whom God had separated them, they must be judged and punished. "

He that saith I know Him, and keepeth not His commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him " (1 John 2:4).