“You shall not eat any abomination.
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
Thou shall not eat any abominable thing. That is so either in its own nature, or because forbidden by the Lord; what are such are declared in the following verses. Thou shall not eat any abominable thing. That is so either in its own nature, or because forbidden by the Lord; what are such are declared in the following verses.
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