“You may eat all clean birds.
Moses here tells the people of Israel, I. How God had dignified them, as a peculiar people, with three distinguishing privileges, which were their honour, and figures of those spiritual blessings in heavenly things with which God has in Christ blessed us. 1. Here is election: The Lord hath chosen thee, v: 2.
Commenting on Deuteronomy 14:1-21
And every creeping thing that flieth is unclean,.... Which the Targum of Jonathan thus paraphrases;"all flies and wasps (or hornets), and worms of lentiles and of beans, which are separated from food, and fly as birds, they are unclean;''See Gill on Lev 11:20; see Gill on Lev 11:21. . Deuteronomy 14:20 deu 14:20 deu 14:20 deu 14:20But of all clean fowls ye may eat.
WHAT MAY BE EATEN, AND WHAT NOT. (Deu. 14:3-21) Thou shalt not eat any abominable thing--that is, anything forbidden as unclean (see on Lev 11:1).
Commenting on Deuteronomy 14:3-21