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주석[매튜 헨리] — 레위기 26장 · 순종과 불순종 결과

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Promises. . 1 Ye shall make you no idols nor graven image, neither rear you up a standing image, neither shall ye set up any image of stone in your land, to bow down unto it: for I am the LORD your God. 2 Ye shall keep my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary: I am the LORD . 3 If ye walk in my statutes, and keep my commandments, and do them; 4 Then I will give you rain in due season, and the land shall yield her increase, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit. 5 And your threshing shall reach unto the vintage, and the vintage shall reach unto the sowing time: and ye shall eat your bread to the full, and dwell in your land safely. 6 And I will give peace in the land, and ye shall lie down, and none shall make you afraid: and I will rid evil beasts out of the land, neither shall the sword go through your land. 7 And ye shall chase your enemies, and they shall fall before you by the sword. 8 And five of you shall chase an hundred, and an hundred of you shall put ten thousand to flight: and your enemies shall fall before you by the sword. 9 For I will have respect unto you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, and establish my covenant with you. 10 And ye shall eat old store, and bring forth the old because of the new. 11 And I will set my tabernacle among you: and my soul shall not abhor you. 12 And I will walk among you, and will be your God, and ye shall be my people. 13 I am the LORD your God, which brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, that ye should not be their bondmen; and I have broken the bands of your yoke, and made you go upright. Here is, I. The inculcating of those precepts of the law which were of the greatest consequence, and by which were of the greatest consequence, and by which especially their obedience would be tried, Leviticus 26:1 ; Leviticus 26:2 . They are the abstract of the second and fourth commandments, which, as they are by much the largest in the decalogue, so they are most frequently insisted on in other parts of the law. As, when a master has given many things in charge to his servant, he concludes with the repetition of those things which were of the greatest importance, and which the servant was most in danger of neglecting, bidding him, whatever he did, be sure to remember those, so here God by Moses, after many precepts, closes all with a special charge to observe these two great commandments. 1. "Be sure you never worship images, nor ever make any sort of images or pictures for a religious use," Leviticus 26:1 ; Leviticus 26:1 . No sin was more provoking to God than this, and yet there was none that they were more addicted to, and which afterwards proved of more pernicious consequence to them. Next to God's being, unity, and universal influence, it is necessary that we know and believe that he is an infinite Spirit; and therefore to represent him by an image in the making of it, to confine him to an image in the consecrating of it, and to worship him by an image in bowing down to it, changes his truth into a lie and his glory into shame, as much as any thing. 2. "Be sure you keep up a great veneration for sabbaths and religious assemblies," Leviticus 26:2 ; Leviticus 26:2 . As nothing tends more to corrupt religion than the use of images in devotion, so nothing contributes more to the support of it than keeping the sabbaths and reverencing the sanctuary. These make up very much of the instrumental part of religion, by which the essentials of it are kept up. Therefore we find in the prophets that, next to the sin of idolatry, there is no sin for which the Jews are more frequently reproved and threatened than the profanation of the sabbath day. II. Great encouragements given them to live in constant obedience to all God's commandments, largely and strongly assuring them that if they did so they should be a happy people, and should be blessed with all the good things they could desire. Human governments enforce their laws with penalties to be inflicted for the breach of them; but God will be known as the rewarder of those that seek and serve him. Let us take a view of these great and precious promises, which, though they relate chiefly to the life which now is, and to the public national concerns of that people, were typical of the spiritual blessings entailed by the covenant of grace upon all believers through Christ. 1. Plenty and abundance of the fruits of the earth. They should have seasonable rain, neither too little nor too much, but what was requisite for their land, which was watered with the dew of heaven ( Deuteronomy 11:10 ; Deuteronomy 11:11 ), that it might yield its increase, Leviticus 26:4 ; Leviticus 26:4 . The dependence which the fruitfulness of the earth beneath has upon the influences of heaven above is a sensible intimation to us that every good and perfect gift must be expected from above, from the Father of lights. It is promised that the earth should produce its fruits in such great abundance that they would be kept in full employment, during both the harvest and the vintage, to gather it in, Leviticus 26:5 ; Leviticus 26:5 . Before they had reaped their corn and threshed it, the vintage would be ready; and, before they had finished their vintage, it would be high time to begin their sowing. Long harvests are often with us the consequences of bad weather, but with them they should be the effects of a great increase. This signified the abundance of grace which should be poured out in gospel times, when the ploughman should overtake the reaper ( Amos 9:13 ), and a great harvest of souls should be gathered in to Christ. The plenty should be so great that they should bring forth the old to be given away to the poor because of the new, to make room for it in their barns, which yet they would not pull down to build greater, as that rich fool ( Luke 12:18 ), for God gave them this abundance to be laid out, not be hoarded up from one year to another. He that withholdeth corn, the people shall curse him, Proverbs 11:26 . That promise ( Malachi 3:10 ), I will pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it, explains this, Leviticus 26:10 ; Leviticus 26:10 . And that which crowns this blessing of plenty is ( Leviticus 26:5 ; Leviticus 26:5 ), You shall eat your bread to the full, which intimates that they should have, not only abundance, but content and satisfaction in it. They should have enough, and should know when they had enough. Thus the meek shall eat and be satisfied, Psalms 22:26 . 2. Peace under the divine protection; " You shall dwell in your land safely ( Leviticus 26:5 ; Leviticus 26:5 ); both really save, and safe in your own apprehensions; you shall lie down to rest in the power and promise of God, and not only none shall hurt you, but none shall so much as make you afraid, " Leviticus 26:6 ; Leviticus 26:6 . See Psalms 4:8 . They should not be infested with wild beasts, these should be rid out of the land, or, as it is promised ( Job 5:23 ), should be at peace with them. Nor should they be terrified with the alarms of war: Neither shall the sword go through your land. This holy security is promised to all the faithful, Psalms 91:1-16 , c. Those must needs dwell in safety that dwell in God, Job 9:18 ; Job 9:19 . 3. Victory and success in their wars abroad, while they had peace and tranquility at home, Leviticus 26:7 ; Leviticus 26:8 . They are assured that the hand of God should so signally appear with them in their conquests that no disproportion of numbers should make against them: Five of you shall have courage to attack, and strength to chase and defeat, a hundred, as Jonathan did ( 1 Samuel 14:12 ), experiencing the truth of his own maxim ( Leviticus 26:6 ; Leviticus 26:6 ), that it is all one with the Lord to save by many or by few. 4. The increase of their people: I will make you fruitful and multiply you, Leviticus 26:9 ; Leviticus 26:9 . Thus the promise made to Abraham must be fulfilled, that his seed should be as the dust of the earth; and much more numerous they would have been if they had by their sin cut themselves short. It is promised to the gospel church that it shall be fruitful, John 15:16 . 5. The favour of God, which is the fountain of all good: I will have respect unto you, Leviticus 26:9 ; Leviticus 26:9 . If the eye of our faith be unto God, the eye of his favour will be unto us. More is implied than is expressed in that promise, My soul shall not abhor you ( Leviticus 26:11 ; Leviticus 26:11 ), as there is in that threatening, My soul shall have no pleasure in him, Hebrews 10:38 . Though there was that among them which might justly have alienated him from them, yet, if they would closely adhere to his institutions, he would not abhor them. 6. Tokens of his presence in and by his ordinances: I will set my tabernacle among you, Leviticus 26:11 ; Leviticus 26:11 . It was their honour and advantage that God's tabernacle was lately erected among them; but here he lets them know that the continuance and establishment of it depended upon their good behaviour. The tabernacle that was now set should be settled if they would be obedient, else not. Note, The way to have God's ordinances fixed among us, as a nail in a sure place, is to cleave closely to the institution of them. It is added ( Leviticus 26:12 ; Leviticus 26:12 ), " I will walk among you, with delight and satisfaction, as a man in his garden; I will keep up communion with you as a man walking with his friend." This seems to be alluded to, Revelation 2:1 , where Christ is said to walk in the midst of the golden candlesticks. 7. The grace of the covenant, as the fountain and foundation, the sweetness and security, of all these blessings: I will establish my covenant with you, Leviticus 26:9 ; Leviticus 26:9 . Let them perform their part of the covenant, and God would not fail to perform his. All covenant-blessings are summed up in the covenant-relation ( Leviticus 26:12 ; Leviticus 26:12 ): I will be your God, and you shall be my people; and they are all grounded upon their redemption: I am your God, because I brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, Leviticus 26:13 ; Leviticus 26:13 . Having purchased them, he would own them, and never cast them off till they cast him off. He broke their yoke, and made them go upright, that is, their deliverance out of Egypt put them in a state both of ease and honour, that, being delivered out of the hands of their enemies, they might serve God without fear, each walking in his uprightness. When Israel rejected Christ, and was therefore rejected by him, their back is said to be bowed down always under the burden of their guilt, which was heavier than that of their bondage in Egypt, Romans 11:10 . return to ' Top of Page ' <a name="verses-14-39" class="com-number"

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I. 율법 가운데 가장 중요한 계명들, 곧 그 순종 여부로 이스라엘의 신실함이 시험될 계명들을 거듭 강조한다(레 26:1-2). 이는 십계명 가운데 두 번째 계명과 네 번째 계명의 핵심이다. 이 두 계명은 십계명 가운데 가장 길며, 율법의 다른 부분들에서도 가장 자주 강조된다. 마치 주인이 종에게 여러 가지를 지시한 뒤, 가장 중요하고 종이 소홀히 할 위험이 가장 큰 것을 마지막에 다시 당부하듯이, 하나님께서도 모세를 통해 많은 규례를 주신 뒤 이 두 대계명을 특별히 강조하며 마무리하신다.

1. "어떤 형태로든 우상을 만들거나 종교적 목적으로 어떤 형상이나 그림도 만들지 말라"(레 26:1). 하나님을 이처럼 진노케 하는 죄가 없었지만, 이스라엘이 이처럼 탐닉하다가 결국 치명적인 결과를 낳은 죄도 없었다. 하나님의 존재와 유일성과 보편적 주권 다음으로 우리가 알고 믿어야 할 것은 그분이 무한한 영이시라는 사실이다. 그러므로 형상을 만들어 그분을 표현하거나, 형상에 그분을 가두거나, 형상 앞에 절하여 예배하는 행위는 그분의 진리를 거짓으로, 그분의 영광을 수치로 바꾸는 것이다.

2. "안식일과 성회를 진심으로 경외하라"(레 26:2). 우상 숭배가 종교를 부패시키는 가장 큰 원인이듯, 안식일을 지키고 성소를 경외하는 것은 종교를 지탱하는 가장 큰 힘이다. 이것들은 본질적인 신앙을 유지하게 하는 수단적 종교의 핵심을 이룬다. 선지자들에서도 우상 숭배 다음으로 유대인들이 가장 자주 책망받은 죄는 안식일 모독이었다.

II. 하나님의 모든 계명에 항상 순종하도록 주어진 큰 격려들이다. 하나님께서는 순종하면 복된 백성이 될 것이며 원하는 모든 좋은 것으로 축복받을 것이라고 풍성하고 힘 있게 약속하신다. 인간의 통치는 법을 어겼을 때의 형벌로 법을 강제하지만, 하나님께서는 자신을 찾고 섬기는 자들에게 상 주시는 분으로 알려지기를 원하신다. 이 크고 보배로운 약속들을 살펴보자. 이 약속들은 주로 현세의 삶과 그 백성의 국가적 공동 사안에 관한 것이지만, 그리스도 안에서 모든 믿는 자에게 은혜 언약으로 주어진 영적 복들의 예표이기도 하다.

1. 땅의 소산물이 풍성히 넘침. 비가 제때에 내려 땅이 그 소산을 내고(레 26:4), 아래 땅의 열매가 위 하늘의 영향에 의존하는 것은, 우리에게 모든 좋고 온전한 선물은 위에서, 빛들의 아버지께로부터 기대해야 함을 감각적으로 일깨워 준다. 추수와 수확이 겹쳐 쉴 틈이 없을 만큼 소산이 넘쳐나고(레 26:5), 헛간에 묵은 곡식을 새것을 들여놓기 위해 나누어 줄 만큼 풍성할 것이다(레 26:10). 이는 복음 시대에 부어질 풍성한 은혜를 상징한다. "네가 배불리 먹을 것이다"(레 26:5)라는 약속은 단순한 풍요를 넘어 만족과 충족을 누릴 것을 뜻한다. 온유한 자는 먹고 만족하리라(시 22:26).

2. 하나님의 보호 아래 누리는 평화. "너희가 안전하게 거할 것이다"(레 26:5). 실제로 안전하고, 스스로도 안전하다고 느끼며, 하나님의 능력과 약속 안에서 눕고 아무도 너희를 두렵게 하지 못할 것이다(레 26:6). 시편 4:8을 보라. 들짐승도 없어질 것이며, 전쟁의 위협도 없을 것이다. "칼이 너희 땅을 지나지 아니하리라." 이 거룩한 안전은 모든 신실한 자에게 약속된다(시 91편). 하나님 안에 거하는 자는 반드시 안전하게 거한다(욥 9:18-19).

3. 나라 밖에서의 전쟁에서 승리. 다섯 명이 백 명을 쫓고, 백 명이 만 명을 쫓을 것이다(레 26:7-8). 하나님의 손이 함께하시므로 수적 열세가 문제가 되지 않는다. 마치 요나단이 "여호와께서 많은 사람으로나 적은 사람으로나 구원하심에 막힘이 없다"는 자신의 신념을 경험으로 확인했듯이(삼상 14:12).

4. 백성의 번성. "내가 너희를 번성하게 하고 너희를 많게 할 것이다"(레 26:9). 이로써 아브라함의 씨가 땅의 먼지처럼 많아지리라는 약속이 이루어진다. 그리스도의 교회에도 열매 맺는 것이 약속되었다(요 15:16).

5. 하나님의 은총이 모든 좋은 것의 근원. "내가 너희를 돌아볼 것이다"(레 26:9). 우리 믿음의 눈이 하나님을 향하면 그분의 은총의 눈이 우리를 향한다. "내 마음이 너희를 싫어하지 아니하리라"(레 26:11)는 약속에는 표현 이상의 것이 담겨 있다.

6. 하나님의 규례 안에서 나타나는 그분의 임재의 표시. "내가 내 성막을 너희 가운데에 둘 것이다"(레 26:11). 성막이 그들 가운데 세워진 것은 영광이었지만, 그 지속과 확립은 그들의 행동에 달려 있었다. "내가 너희 중에 행할 것이다"(레 26:12). 사람이 정원을 걷듯 기쁨과 만족으로, 친구와 함께 걷듯 교제를 나누겠다는 것이다. 이것은 요한계시록 2:1에서 그리스도께서 금 촛대들 사이를 거니신다는 것에서 암시된다.

7. 모든 복의 샘이요 기초인 언약의 은혜. "내가 내 언약을 너희와 세울 것이다"(레 26:9). 그들이 언약의 자기 몫을 이행하면, 하나님께서도 자신의 몫을 반드시 이행하신다. 모든 언약의 복은 언약의 관계로 요약된다(레 26:12). "나는 너희의 하나님이 될 것이요, 너희는 내 백성이 될 것이다." 이 모든 것은 구속에 근거한다. "나는 너희를 이집트 땅에서 인도해 낸 너희의 하나님이다"(레 26:13). 그분이 그들을 사셨으니 그들을 소유하시고, 그들이 그분을 버리기 전에는 결코 그들을 버리지 않으신다. 그분이 그들의 멍에를 꺾으시고 바로 서게 하셨다. 이는 이집트의 종살이에서 건져내셔서 그들이 두려움 없이 하나님을 섬길 수 있게 해주셨음을 뜻한다. 이스라엘이 그리스도를 거절했을 때 그들의 허리는 항상 굽어 있다고 하는데(롬 11:10), 이는 이집트의 멍에보다 더 무거운 죄책의 짐을 진 것이다.

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L E V I T C U S CHAP. XXVI. This chapter is a solemn conclusion of the main body of the levitical law. The precepts that follow in this and the following book either relate to some particular matters or are repetitions and explications of the foregoing institutions. Now this chapter contains a general enforcement of all those laws by promises of reward in case of obedience on the one hand, and threatenings of punishment for disobedience on the other hand, the former to work upon hope, the latter on fear, those two handles of the soul, by which it is taken hold of and managed. Here is, I. A repetition of two or three of the principal of the commandments, Leviticus 26:1 ; Leviticus 26:2 . II. An inviting promise of all good things, if they would but keep God's commandments, Leviticus 26:3-13 . III. A terrible threatening of ruining judgments which would be brought upon them if they were refractory and disobedient, Leviticus 26:14-39 . IV. A gracious promise of the return of mercy to those of them that would repent and reform, Leviticus 26:40-46 , &c. Deuteronomy 28:1-20 is parallel to this. return to ' Top of Page ' <a name="verses-1-13" class="com-number"

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레위기 26장은 레위기 율법 본체의 장엄한 결론이다. 이후 이 책과 다음 책에 나오는 규례들은 특정 사안들을 다루거나, 앞서 제정된 법령들을 반복하고 설명하는 내용들이다. 본 장은 이 모든 율법들을 총체적으로 강화하는 내용을 담고 있다. 순종에 대한 상급의 약속은 소망에 호소하고, 불순종에 대한 형벌의 경고는 두려움에 호소한다. 이 두 가지는 영혼이 붙들리고 인도되는 두 개의 손잡이와 같다. 본 장의 구성은 다음과 같다.

I. 가장 핵심적인 계명들 가운데 두세 가지의 반복(레 26:1-2).

II. 그들이 하나님의 계명을 지키기만 하면 모든 좋은 것을 주겠다는 매력적인 약속(레 26:3-13).

III. 반항하고 불순종할 경우 내려질 파멸적인 심판에 대한 엄중한 경고(레 26:14-39).

IV. 회개하고 돌이키는 자들에게 자비를 베푸시겠다는 은혜로운 약속(레 26:40-46).

이 장과 나란히 읽을 수 있는 본문은 신명기 28:1-20이다.

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Threatenings. . 14 But if ye will not hearken unto me, and will not do all these commandments; 15 And if ye shall despise my statutes, or if your soul abhor my judgments, so that ye will not do all my commandments, but that ye break my covenant: 16 I also will do this unto you; I will even appoint over you terror, consumption, and the burning ague, that shall consume the eyes, and cause sorrow of heart: and ye shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it. 17 And I will set my face against you, and ye shall be slain before your enemies: they that hate you shall reign over you; and ye shall flee when none pursueth you. 18 And if ye will not yet for all this hearken unto me, then I will punish you seven times more for your sins. 19 And I will break the pride of your power; and I will make your heaven as iron, and your earth as brass: 20 And your strength shall be spent in vain: for your land shall not yield her increase, neither shall the trees of the land yield their fruits. 21 And if ye walk contrary unto me, and will not hearken unto me; I will bring seven times more plagues upon you according to your sins. 22 I will also send wild beasts among you, which shall rob you of your children, and destroy your cattle, and make you few in number; and your high ways shall be desolate. 23 And if ye will not be reformed by me by these things, but will walk contrary unto me; 24 Then will I also walk contrary unto you, and will punish you yet seven times for your sins. 25 And I will bring a sword upon you, that shall avenge the quarrel of my covenant: and when ye are gathered together within your cities, I will send the pestilence among you; and ye shall be delivered into the hand of the enemy. 26 And when I have broken the staff of your bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall deliver you your bread again by weight: and ye shall eat, and not be satisfied. 27 And if ye will not for all this hearken unto me, but walk contrary unto me; 28 Then I will walk contrary unto you also in fury; and I, even I, will chastise you seven times for your sins. 29 And ye shall eat the flesh of your sons, and the flesh of your daughters shall ye eat. 30 And I will destroy your high places, and cut down your images, and cast your carcases upon the carcases of your idols, and my soul shall abhor you. 31 And I will make your cities waste, and bring your sanctuaries unto desolation, and I will not smell the savour of your sweet odours. 32 And I will bring the land into desolation: and your enemies which dwell therein shall be astonished at it. 33 And I will scatter you among the heathen, and will draw out a sword after you: and your land shall be desolate, and your cities waste. 34 Then shall the land enjoy her sabbaths, as long as it lieth desolate, and ye be in your enemies' land; even then shall the land rest, and enjoy her sabbaths. 35 As long as it lieth desolate it shall rest; because it did not rest in your sabbaths, when ye dwelt upon it. 36 And upon them that are left alive of you I will send a faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies; and the sound of a shaken leaf shall chase them; and they shall flee, as fleeing from a sword; and they shall fall when none pursueth. 37 And they shall fall one upon another, as it were before a sword, when none pursueth: and ye shall have no power to stand before your enemies. 38 And ye shall perish among the heathen, and the land of your enemies shall eat you up. 39 And they that are left of you shall pine away in their iniquity in your enemies' lands; and also in the iniquities of their fathers shall they pine away with them. After God had set the blessing before them (the life and good which would make them a happy people if they would be obedient), he here sets the curse before them, the death and evil which would make them as miserable if they were disobedient. Let them not think themselves so deeply rooted as that God's power could not ruin them, nor so highly favoured as that his justice would not ruin them if they revolted from him and rebelled against him; no You only have I known, therefore I will punish you soonest and sorest. Amos 3:2 . Observe, I. How their sin is described, which would bring all this misery upon them. Not sins of ignorance and infirmity; God had provided sacrifices for those. Not the sins they repented of and forsook; but the sins that were presumptuously committed, and obstinately persisted in. Two things would certainly bring this ruin upon them:-- 1. A contempt of God's commandments ( Leviticus 26:14 ; Leviticus 26:14 ): " If you will not hearken to me speaking to you by the law, nor do all these commandments, that is, desire and endeavour to do them, and, wherein you miss it, make use of the prescribed remedies." Thus their sin is supposed to begin in mere carelessness, and neglect, and omission. These are bad enough, but they make way for worse; for the people are brought in ( Leviticus 26:15 ; Leviticus 26:15 ) as, (1.) Despising God's statutes, both the duties enjoined and the authority enjoining them, thinking meanly of the law and the Law-maker. Note, Those are hastening apace to their own ruin who begin to think it below them to be religious. (2.) Abhorring his judgments, their very souls abhorring them. Note, Those that begin to despise religion will come by degrees to loathe it; and mean thoughts of it will ripen into ill thoughts of it; those that turn from it will turn against it, and their hearts will rise at it. (3.) Breaking his covenant. Though every breach of the commandment does not amount to a breach of the covenant (we were undone if it did), yet, when men have come to such a pitch of impiety as to despise and abhor the commandment, the next step will be to disown God, and all relation to him. Those that reject the precept will come at last to renounce the covenant. Observe, It is God's covenant which they break: he made it, but they break it. Note, If a covenant be made and kept between God and man, God must have all the honour; but, if ever it be broken, man must bear all the blame: on him shall this breach be. 2. A contempt of his corrections. Even their disobedience would not have been their destruction if they had not been obstinate and impenitent in it, notwithstanding the methods God took to reclaim them. Their contempt of God's word would not have brought them to ruin, if they had not added to that a contempt of his rod, which should have brought them to repentance. Three ways this is expressed:-- (1.) " If you will not for all this hearken to me, Leviticus 26:18 ; Leviticus 26:21 ; Leviticus 26:27 . If you will not learn obedience by the things which you suffer, but be as deaf to the loud alarms of God's judgments as you have been to the close reasonings of his word and the secret whispers of your own consciences, you are obstinate indeed." (2.) " If you walk contrary to me, Leviticus 26:21 ; Leviticus 26:23 ; Leviticus 26:27 . All sinners walk contrary to God, to his truths, laws, and counsels; but those especially that are incorrigible under his judgments. The design of the rod is to humble them, and soften them, and bring them to repentance; but, instead of this, their hearts are more hardened and exasperated against God, and in their distress they trespass yet more against him, 2 Chronicles 28:22 . This is walking contrary to God. Some read it, "If you walk at all adventures with me, carelessly and presumptuously, as if you heeded not either what you do, whether it be right or wrong, or what God does with you, whether it be for you or against you, blundering on in wilful ignorance." (3.) If you will not be reformed by these things. God's design in punishing is to reform, by giving men sensible convictions of the evil of sin, and obliging them to seek unto him for relief: this is the primary intention; but those that will not be reformed by the judgments of God must expect to be ruined by them. Those have a great deal to answer for that have been long and often under God's correcting hand, and yet go on frowardly in a sinful way; sick and in pain, and yet not reformed; crossed and impoverished, and yet not reformed; broken with breach upon breach, yet not returning to the Lord, Amos 4:6 , c. II. How the misery is described which their sin would bring upon them, under two heads:-- 1. God himself would be against them and this is the root and cause of all their misery. (1.) I will set my face against you ( Leviticus 26:17 ; Leviticus 26:17 ), that is, "I will set myself against you, set myself to ruin you." These proud sinners God will resist, and face those down that confront his authority. Or the face is put for the anger: "I will show myself highly displeased at you." (2.) I will walk contrary to you ( Leviticus 26:24 ; Leviticus 26:28 ); with the forward he will wrestle, Psalms 28:26 [margin]. When God in his providence thwarts the designs of a people, which they thought well laid, crosses their purposes, breaks their measures, blasts their endeavours, and disappoints their expectations, then he walks contrary to them. Note, There is nothing got by striving with God Almighty, for he will break either the heart or the neck of those that contend with him, will bring them either to repentance or ruin. "I will walk at all adventures with you," so some read; "all covenant loving-kindness shall be forgotten, and I will leave you to common providence." Note, Those that cast off God deserve that he should cast them off. (3.) As they continued obstinate, the judgments should increase yet more upon them. If the first sensible tokens of God's displeasures do not attain their end, to humble and reform them, then ( Leviticus 26:18 ; Leviticus 26:18 ), I will punish you seven times more, and again ( Leviticus 26:21 ; Leviticus 26:21 ), I will bring seven times more plagues, and ( Leviticus 26:24 ; Leviticus 26:24 ), I will punish you yet seven times, and ( Leviticus 26:28 ; Leviticus 26:28 ), I, even I, will chastise you seven times for your sins. Note, If less judgments do not do their work, God will send greater; for, when he judges, he will overcome. If true repentance do not stay process, it will go on till execution be taken out. Those that are obstinate and incorrigible, when they have weathered one storm must expect another more violent; and, how severely soever they are punished, till they are in hell they must still say, "There is worse behind," unless they repent. If the founder have hitherto melted in vain ( Jeremiah 6:29 ), the furnace will be heated seven times hotter (a proverbial expression, used Daniel 3:19 ), and again and again seven times hotter; and who among us can dwell with such devouring fire? God does not begin with the sorest judgments, to show that he is patient, and delights not in the death of sinners; but, if they repent not, he will proceed to the sorest, to show that he is righteous, and that he will not be mocked or set at defiance. (4.) Their misery is completed in that threatening: My soul shall abhor you, Leviticus 26:30 ; Leviticus 26:30 . That man is as miserable as he can be whom God abhors; for his resentments are just and effective. Thus if any man draw back, as these are supposed to do, God's soul shall have no pleasure in him ( Hebrews 10:38 ), and he will spue them out of his mouth, Revelation 3:16 . It is spoken of as strange, and yet too true, Hath thy soul loathed Zion? Jeremiah 14:19 . 2. The whole creation would be at war with them. All God's sore judgments would be sent against them; for he hath many arrows in his quiver. The threatenings here are very particular, because really they were prophecies, and he that foresaw all their rebellions knew they would prove so; see Deuteronomy 31:16 ; Deuteronomy 31:29 . This long roll of threatening shows that evil pursues sinners. We have here, (1.) Temporal judgments threatened. [1.] Diseases of body, which should be epidemical: I will appoint over you, as task-masters, to rule you with rigour, terror, consumption, and the burning ague, Leviticus 26:16 ; Leviticus 26:16 . What we translate terror, some think, signifies a particular disease, probably (says the learned bishop Patrick) the falling sickness, which is terror indeed: all chronical diseases are included in the consumption, and all acute diseases in the burning ague or fever. These consume the eyes, and cause sorrow both to those that are visited with them and to their friends and relations. Note, All diseases are God's servants; they do what he appoints them, and are often used as scourges wherewith he chastises a provoking people. The pestilence is threatened ( Leviticus 26:25 ; Leviticus 26:25 ) to meet them, when they are gathered together in their cities for fear of the sword. The greater the concourse of people is, the greater desolation does the pestilence make; and, when it gets among the soldiers that should defend a place, it is of most fatal consequence. [2.] Famine and scarcity of bread, which should be brought upon them several ways; as, First, By plunder ( Leviticus 26:16 ; Leviticus 26:16 ): Your enemies shall eat it up, and carry it off as the Midianites did, Judges 6:5 ; Judges 6:6 . Secondly, By unseasonable weather, especially the want of rain ( Leviticus 26:19 ; Leviticus 26:19 ): I will make your heaven as iron, letting fall no rain, but reflecting heat, and then the earth would of course be as dry and hard as brass, and their labour in ploughing and sowing would be in vain ( Leviticus 26:20 ; Leviticus 26:20 ); for the increase of the earth depends upon God's good providence more than upon man's good husbandry. This should be the breaking of the staff of bread ( Leviticus 26:26 ; Leviticus 26:26 ), which life leans upon, and is supported by, on which perhaps they had leaned more than upon God's blessing. There should be so great a dearth of corn that, whereas every family used to fill an oven of their own with household bread, now ten families should have to fill but one over, which would bring themselves and their children and servants to short allowance, so that they should eat and not be satisfied. The less they had the more craving should their appetites be. Thirdly, By the besieging of their cities, which would reduce them to such an extremity that they should eat the flesh of their sons and daughters, Leviticus 26:29 ; Leviticus 26:29 . [3.] War, and the prevailing of their enemies over them: " You shall be slain before your enemies, Leviticus 26:17 ; Leviticus 26:17 . Your choice men shall die in battle, and those that hate you shall reign over you, and justly, since you are not willing that the God that loved you should reign over you;" 2 Chronicles 12:8 . Miserable is that people whose enemies are their rulers and have got dominion over them, or whose rulers have become their enemies and under-hand seek the ruin of their interests. Thus God would break the pride of their power, Leviticus 26:19 ; Leviticus 26:19 . God had given them power over the nations; but when they, instead of being thankful for that power, and improving it for the service of God's kingdom, grew proud of it, and perverted the intentions of it, it was just with God to break it. Thus God would bring a sword upon them to avenge the quarrel of his covenant, Leviticus 26:25 ; Leviticus 26:25 . Note, God has a just quarrel with those that break covenant with him, for he will not be mocked by the treachery of perfidious men; and one way or other he will avenge this quarrel upon those that play at fast and loose with him. [4.] Wild beasts, lions, bears, and wolves, which should increase upon them, and tear in pieces all that come in their way ( Leviticus 26:22 ; Leviticus 26:22 ), as we read of two bears that in an instant killed forty-two children, 2 Kings 2:24 . This is one of the four sore judgments threatened Ezekiel 14:21 , which plainly refers to this chapter. Man was made to have dominion over the creatures, and, though many of them are stronger than he, yet none of them could have hurt him, nay, all of them would have served him, if he had not first shaken off God's dominion, and so lost his own; and now the creatures are in rebellion against him that is in rebellion against his Maker, and, when the Lord of those hosts pleases, they are the executioners of his wrath and the ministers of his justice. [5.] Captivity, or dispersion: I will scatter you among the heathen ( Leviticus 26:33 ; Leviticus 26:33 ), in your enemies' land, Leviticus 26:34 ; Leviticus 26:34 . Never were any people so incorporated and united among themselves as they were; but for their sin God would scatter them, so that they should be lost among the heathen, from whom God had graciously distinguished them, but with whom they had wickedly mingled themselves. Yet, when they were scattered, divine justice had not done with them, but would draw out a sword after them, which would find them out, and follow them wherever they were. God's judgments, as they cannot be outfaced, so they cannot be outrun. [6.] The utter ruin and desolation of their land, which should be so remarkable that their very enemies themselves, who ha helped it forward, should in the review be astonished at it, Leviticus 26:32 ; Leviticus 26:32 . First, Their cities should be waste, forsaken, uninhabited, and all the buildings destroyed; those that escaped the desolations of war should fall to decay of themselves. Secondly, Their sanctuaries should be a desolation, that is, their synagogues where they met for religious worship every sabbath, as well as their tabernacle where they met thrice a year. Thirdly, The country itself should be desolate, not tilled or husbanded ( Leviticus 26:34 ; Leviticus 26:35 ); then the land should enjoy its sabbaths, because they had not religiously observed the sabbatical years which God appointed them. They tilled their ground when God would have them let it rest; justly therefore were they driven out of it; and the expression intimates that the ground itself was pleased and easy when it was rid of the burden of such sinners, under which it had groaned, Romans 8:20 , c. The captivity in Babylon lasted seventy years, and so long the land enjoyed her sabbaths, as is said ( 2 Chronicles 36:21 ) with reference to this. [7.] The destruction of their idols, though rather a mercy than a judgment, yet, being a necessary piece of justice, is here mentioned, to show what would be the sin that would bring all these miseries upon them: I will destroy your high places, Leviticus 26:30 ; Leviticus 26:30 . Those that will not be parted from their sins by the commands of God shall be parted from them by his judgments; since they would not destroy their high places, God would. And, to upbraid them with the unreasonable fondness they had shown for their idols, it is foretold that their carcases should be cast upon the carcases of their idols. Those that are wedded to their lusts will sooner or later have enough of them. Their idols would not be able to help either themselves or their worshippers; but, those that made them being like them, they should both perish alike, and fall together as blind into the ditch. (2.) Spiritual judgments are here threatened. These should seize the mind; for he that made the mind can, when he pleases, make his sword approach to it. It is here threatened, [1.] That they should find no acceptance with God: I will not smell the savour of your sweet odours, Leviticus 26:31 ; Leviticus 26:31 . Though the judgments of God upon them did not separate them and their sins, yet they extorted incense from them; but in vain--even their incense was an abomination, Isaiah 1:13 . [2.] That they should have no courage in their wars, but should be quite dispirited and disheartened. They should not only fear and flee ( Leviticus 26:17 ; Leviticus 26:17 ), but fear and fall, when none pursued, Leviticus 26:36 ; Leviticus 26:36 . A guilty conscience would be their continual terror, so that not only the sound of a trumpet, but the very sound of a leaf, should chase them. Note, Those that cast off the fear of God expose themselves to the fear of every thing else, Proverbs 28:1 . Their very fears should dash them one against another, Leviticus 26:37 ; Leviticus 26:38 . And those that had increased one another's guilt would now increase one another's fears. [3.] That they should have no hope of the forgiveness of their sins ( Leviticus 26:39 ; Leviticus 26:39 ): They shall pine away in their iniquity, and how should they then live? Ezekiel 33:10 . Note, It is a righteous thing with God to leave those to despair of pardon that have presumed to sin; and it is owing to free grace if we are not abandoned to pine away in the iniquity we were born in and have lived in. return to ' Top of Page ' <a name="verses-40-46" class="com-number"

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하나님께서 앞서 축복을 제시하신(순종하면 행복한 백성이 될 것이라는 삶과 선함) 후, 이제 저주를 제시하신다. 그들이 하나님께 반역하고 배반하면 심판으로 비참해질 것이다. 그들이 너무 깊이 뿌리내려 하나님의 능력으로도 파멸시킬 수 없다고, 또는 하나님의 정의가 그들을 파멸시키지 않을 만큼 그들이 높이 총애받는다고 생각해서는 안 된다. "내가 오직 너희만을 알았으니, 그러므로 내가 너희 모든 죄악을 너희에게 보응하리라"(암 3:2).

I. 이 모든 비참함을 초래할 그들의 죄.

무지나 연약함에서 비롯된 죄가 아니다. 그런 것들을 위해 희생 제물이 마련되었다. 회개하고 버린 죄도 아니다. 오직 고의로 범하고 완고하게 지속하는 죄들이다.

1. 하나님의 계명에 대한 멸시(레 26:14-15). "듣지도 않고 계명들을 행하지도 않는다." 이 죄는 단순한 부주의와 태만, 소홀함으로 시작된다. 이어서 그들이 하나님의 율법과 그 율법을 명령하시는 권위를 멸시하는 것, 곧 하나님의 율례들을 업신여기는 것이 드러난다. 종교를 가볍게 여기는 것이 자신의 품위에 어울리지 않는다고 생각하기 시작하는 자들은 빠르게 자기 파멸을 향해 달려가고 있는 것이다. 더 나아가 그 영혼이 하나님의 규례들을 혐오하게 된다. 종교를 경멸하는 자들은 점차 혐오하게 된다. 멸시는 증오로 무르익는다. 마지막으로 그 언약을 파기한다. 모든 계명의 위반이 언약 파기에 이르지는 않지만, 계명을 멸시하고 혐오하는 지경에 이른 자는 다음 단계로 하나님과의 모든 관계를 부인하게 된다.

2. 하나님의 징계에 대한 멸시. 불순종 자체만으로는 파멸에 이르지 않는다. 그러나 그들을 돌이키기 위해 하나님께서 취하시는 방법들에도 완고하고 회개하지 않는다면 파멸을 가져온다. 이것은 세 가지 방식으로 표현된다. (1) "이 모든 것에도 불구하고 내게 청종하지 않는다면"(레 26:18, 21, 27). (2) "나를 거슬러 행한다면"(레 26:21, 23, 27). 모든 죄인은 하나님을 거슬러 행하지만, 특히 징계 아래서도 완고한 자들이 그러하다. 징계는 그들을 겸손하게 하고 부드럽게 하여 회개로 이끌기 위한 것인데, 오히려 그들의 마음이 하나님을 향해 더 완고해지고 그 환난 중에 더욱 범죄한다(대하 28:22). (3) "이 일들로 말미암아 징계를 받지 않는다면." 하나님의 징계의 목적은 개혁이다. 그러나 하나님의 징계로도 개혁되지 않는 자들은 그 징계로 인해 파멸을 당할 것이다. 징계하시는 하나님의 손 아래 오랫동안 자주 있었으면서도 계속 죄의 길을 고집하는 자들은 할 말이 많다. 병들고 고통받으면서도 돌이키지 않고, 손해를 입고 가난해지면서도 돌이키지 않고, 거듭 환난을 당하면서도 여호와께 돌아오지 않는 자들이다(암 4:6).

II. 그들의 죄가 초래할 비참함.

1. 하나님 자신이 그들을 대적하시리니, 이것이 모든 비참함의 뿌리요 원인이다. (1) "내가 너희를 향해 내 얼굴을 들겠다"(레 26:17). 이 교만한 죄인들에게 하나님이 대항하실 것이다. 또는 얼굴은 진노를 나타낸다. "내가 너희에게 매우 노하였음을 보이겠다." (2) "내가 너희를 거슬러 행하겠다"(레 26:24, 28). 하나님께서 그의 섭리로 한 백성의 계획을 막으시고, 그들의 목적을 방해하시고, 그들의 노력을 수포로 만드실 때, 그분은 그들을 거슬러 행하시는 것이다. 전능하신 하나님과 다투어 이득을 볼 수 없다. (3) 그들이 완고하게 버티는 동안 징계가 더욱 심해진다. "내가 일곱 배로 더 벌하겠다"(레 26:18, 21, 24, 28). 작은 징계가 그 목적을 달성하지 못하면 더 큰 것이 온다. 풀무가 일곱 배 더 뜨거워진다(단 3:19). 그래도 회개하지 않으면 또 일곱 배가 된다. 그것도 부족하면 또 일곱 배가 된다. "우리 중에 누가 살아 삼키는 불과 함께 거할 수 있겠는가!" 하나님께서 가장 무거운 징계로 시작하지 않으시는 것은 그분이 인내하시며 죄인의 죽음을 기뻐하지 않으심을 보여 준다. 그러나 회개하지 않으면 의로우신 그분의 가장 무거운 징계로 나아가신다. (4) "내 마음이 너희를 싫어하리라"(레 26:30). 하나님이 혐오하시는 자는 가장 비참하다. "나 역시 그를 기뻐하지 않겠다"(히 10:38). "내가 그를 내 입에서 토하여 버리겠다"(계 3:16).

2. 온 피조물이 그들과 전쟁을 벌인다. 하나님께서는 화살이 가득 찬 화살통을 가지고 계신다.

(1) 육체의 질병이 전염병처럼 퍼질 것이다(레 26:16). 두려움, 소모성 질환, 열병이 감독관으로 임명되어 가혹하게 다스릴 것이다. 흑사병도 위협으로 주어진다(레 26:25). 모든 질병은 하나님의 종이며, 그분이 명령하시는 대로 행한다.

(2) 기근과 식량 부족이 여러 방식으로 임한다. 첫째, 약탈로(레 26:16). 원수들이 먹어 없앨 것이다. 미디안 사람들이 그랬듯이(삿 6:5-6). 둘째, 이상 기후로, 특히 비가 오지 않음으로(레 26:19). "하늘을 철같이 만들겠다." 그러면 땅은 저절로 놋같이 굳을 것이다. 땅이 소산을 내지 않으니 수고도 헛되다(레 26:20). 땅의 소산은 사람의 수고보다 하나님의 좋은 섭리에 더 의존한다. 이것이 양식의 지팡이를 꺾는 것이다(레 26:26). 열 가족이 겨우 하나의 화덕만 사용할 만큼 대흉년이 들 것이다. "먹어도 배부르지 않을 것이다." 셋째, 성읍이 포위됨으로, 아들딸의 살을 먹는 극한 상황까지 이를 것이다(레 26:29).

(3) 전쟁과 원수들의 승리. "너희가 원수 앞에 엎드러질 것이요"(레 26:17). 정예병들이 전쟁에서 죽고, 너희를 미워하는 자들이 너희를 다스릴 것이다(대하 12:8). 하나님께서 그들의 세력의 교만을 꺾으실 것이다(레 26:19). 언약의 원수를 갚을 칼을 가져오실 것이다(레 26:25). 하나님께서는 자신과 배반하며 쉽게 흔들리는 자들의 배역을 반드시 갚으신다.

(4) 들짐승들이 증가하여 어린이들을 물어가고 가축을 해할 것이다(레 26:22). 한순간에 어린이 사십이 명을 죽인 두 마리 곰처럼(왕하 2:24). 이것은 에스겔 14:21이 분명히 이 장을 참조하는 네 가지 큰 징계 중 하나다.

(5) 포로 또는 흩어짐. "내가 너희를 이방 민족들 가운데 흩겠다"(레 26:33). 하나님이 그들을 구별해 주셨건만, 그들이 이방 민족들과 뒤섞인 죄에 대한 형벌이다. 그러나 흩어진 후에도 하나님의 정의는 끝나지 않아 "칼을 빼어 너희 뒤를 쫓겠다." 하나님의 심판은 피할 수도 달아날 수도 없다.

(6) 땅의 완전한 황폐화. 원수들조차 놀랄 만큼 황폐해질 것이다(레 26:32). 첫째, 성읍들이 황무지가 될 것이다. 둘째, 그들의 성소들도 황폐해질 것이다. 셋째, 땅 자체가 경작되지 않고 안식년을 누릴 것이다(레 26:34-35). 그들이 경작해야 하는데 안식하게 해야 할 때 경작했으니, 하나님께서는 정의롭게 그들을 쫓아내셨다. 땅 자체가 이런 죄인들의 짐을 벗어나 기뻐했다고 하는 표현은, 피조물도 허무한 데 굴복한 상태에서 탄식했음을 암시한다(롬 8:20). 바벨론 포로는 칠십 년간 계속되었고, 그 기간 동안 땅이 안식년을 누렸다(대하 36:21).

(7) 우상들의 파멸이 오히려 은혜이지만 정의의 차원에서 언급된다(레 26:30). 하나님의 명령에도 죄에서 떠나지 않으려 하는 자들은 하나님의 심판에 의해 죄에서 떠나게 될 것이다. 그들의 우상들도 그들과 함께 멸망할 것이다.

(8) 영적 심판들. [1] 하나님께서 그들의 분향을 기뻐하지 않으실 것이다(레 26:31). 그들의 분향도 가증스럽다(사 1:13). [2] 그들이 전쟁에서 용기를 잃을 것이다. 쫓기지 않아도 두려워 달아나고(레 26:17), 두려워하다 엎드러질 것이다(레 26:36). 죄책감이 끊임없는 공포가 되어, 나뭇잎 하나 흔들리는 소리에도 달아날 것이다. 하나님을 두려워하기를 버린 자들은 다른 모든 것을 두려워하는 자신을 발견한다(잠 28:1). 그 두려움이 서로에게 전염되어(레 26:37-38), 죄를 부추겼던 자들이 이제 두려움을 부추긴다. [3] 죄 사함의 소망이 없을 것이다(레 26:39). "자기 죄악으로 말미암아 쇠하여 가리니 어찌 살 수 있겠는가?"(겔 33:10). 감히 죄를 짓는 자를 절망에 내버려 두시는 것은 하나님께서 의로우신 일이다.

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Threatenings and Promises. . 40 If they shall confess their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers, with their trespass which they trespassed against me, and that also they have walked contrary unto me; 41 And that I also have walked contrary unto them, and have brought them into the land of their enemies; if then their uncircumcised hearts be humbled, and they then accept of the punishment of their iniquity: 42 Then will I remember my covenant with Jacob, and also my covenant with Isaac, and also my covenant with Abraham will I remember; and I will remember the land. 43 The land also shall be left of them, and shall enjoy her sabbaths, while she lieth desolate without them: and they shall accept of the punishment of their iniquity: because, even because they despised my judgments, and because their soul abhorred my statutes. 44 And yet for all that, when they be in the land of their enemies, I will not cast them away, neither will I abhor them, to destroy them utterly, and to break my covenant with them: for I am the LORD their God. 45 But I will for their sakes remember the covenant of their ancestors, whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the heathen, that I might be their God: I am the LORD . 46 These are the statutes and judgments and laws, which the LORD made between him and the children of Israel in mount Sinai by the hand of Moses. Here the chapter concludes with gracious promises of the return of God's favour to them upon their repentance, that they might not (unless it were their own fault) pine away in their iniquity. Behold, with wonder, the riches of God's mercy to a people that had obstinately stood it out against the judgments of God, and would never think of surrendering till they were reduced to the last extremity. Yet turn to strong-hold, you prisoners of hope, Zechariah 9:12 . As bad as things are, they may be mended. Yet there is hope in Israel. Observe, I. How the repentance which would qualify them for this mercy is described, Leviticus 26:40 ; Leviticus 26:41 . The instances of it are three:-- 1. Confession, by which they must give glory to God, and take shame to themselves. There must be a confession of sin, their own and their fathers', which they must lament the guilt of because they feel the smart of it; that thus they may cut off the entail of wrath. They must in their confession put sin under its worst character, as walking contrary to God; this is the sinfulness of sin, the worst thing in it, and which in our repentance we should especially bewail. There must also be a confession of wrath; they must overlook the instruments of their trouble and the second causes, and confess that God has walked contrary to them, and so dealt with them according to their sins. Such a confession as this we find made by Daniel just before the dawning of the day of their deliverance ( Daniel 9:1-27 ; Daniel 9:1-27 ), and the like, Ezra 9:1-15 ; Nehemiah 9:2 . Remorse and godly sorrow for sin: If their uncircumcised heart be humbled. An impenitent, unbelieving, unhumbled heart, is called an uncircumcised heart, the heart of a Gentile that is a stranger to God, rather than the heart of an Israelite in covenant with him. True circumcision is of the heart ( Romans 2:29 ), without which the circumcision of the flesh avails nothing, Jeremiah 9:26 . Now in repentance this uncircumcised heart was humbled, that is, it was truly broken and contrite for sin. Note, A humble heart under humbling providences prepares for deliverance and true comfort. 3. Submission to the justice of God in all his dealings; if they then accept of the punishment of their iniquity ( Leviticus 26:41 ; Leviticus 26:41 and again Leviticus 26:43 ; Leviticus 26:43 ), that is, if they justify God and condemn themselves, patiently bear the punishment as that which they have well deserved, and carefully answer the ends o it as that which God has well designed, accept it as a kindness, take it as physic, and improve it, then they are penitents indeed. II. How the mercy which they should obtain upon their repentance is described. 1. They should not be abandoned: Though they have despised my judgments, yet, for all that, I will not cast them away, Leviticus 26:43 ; Leviticus 26:44 . He speaks as a tender Father that cannot find in his heart to disinherit a son that has been very provoking. How shall I do it? Hosea 11:8 ; Hosea 11:9 . Till he had laid the foundations of a church for himself in the Gentile world, the Jewish church was not quite forsaken, nor cast away. 2. They should be remembered: I will remember the land with favour, which is grounded upon the promise before, I will remember my covenant ( Leviticus 26:42 ; Leviticus 26:42 ), which is repeated, Leviticus 26:45 ; Leviticus 26:45 . God is said to remember the covenant when he performs the promises of it, purely for his faithfulness' sake; not because there is any thing in us to recommend us to his favour, but because he will be as good as his word. This is the church's plea. Psalms 74:20 , Have respect unto the covenant. He will remember the constitution of the covenant, which is such as leaves room for repentance, and promises pardon upon repentance; and the Mediator of the covenant, who was promised to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and was sent, when the fulness of time came, in remembrance of that holy covenant. The word covenant is thrice repeated, to intimate that God is ever mindful of it and would have us to be so. The persons also with whom the covenant was made are mentioned in an unusual manner, per modum ascensus--in the ascending line, beginning with Jacob, to lead them gradually to the most ancient promise, which was made to the father of the faithful: thus ( Micah 7:20 ) he is said to perform the truth to Jacob, and the mercy to Abraham. He will for their sakes ( Leviticus 26:45 ; Leviticus 26:45 ), not their merit's sake, but their benefit's sake, remember the covenant of their ancestors, and upon that score show kindness to them, though most unworthy; they are therefore said to be, as touching the election, beloved for the fathers' sake, Romans 11:28 . Note, When those that have walked contrary to God in a way of sin return to him by sincere repentance, though he has walked contrary to them in a way of judgment he will return to them in a way of special mercy, pursuant to the covenant of redemption and grace. None are so ready to repent as God is to forgive upon repentance, through Christ, who is given for a covenant. Lastly, These are said to be the laws which the Lord made between him and the children of Israel, Leviticus 26:46 ; Leviticus 26:46 . His communion with his church is kept up by his law. 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이 장은 회개하는 자들에게 하나님의 은총이 돌아오리라는 은혜로운 약속으로 결론을 맺는다. 하나님을 향해 끝까지 버텼던 백성, 마지막 극한 상황에 이르기까지 결코 항복하려 들지 않았던 백성에게 주어지는 하나님의 놀라운 자비의 풍성함을 보라. "소망의 포로들이여, 요새로 돌아오라"(슥 9:12). 상황이 아무리 나빠도 회복될 수 있다. 이스라엘에게는 아직 소망이 있다.

I. 이 자비를 받기에 합당하게 하는 회개가 어떻게 묘사되는가(레 26:40-41). 세 가지 요소가 있다.

1. 고백. 자신과 조상들의 죄를 고백함으로써 하나님께 영광을 돌리고 자신은 수치를 받아야 한다. 자기들이 느끼는 징계의 결과가 그 죄 때문임을 알아 자기 죄와 조상의 죄를 고백해야 한다. 그 고백에서 죄를 가장 나쁜 성격으로 묘사해야 한다. 하나님을 거슬러 행한 것으로 표현해야 한다. 이것이 죄의 죄됨, 죄 가운데 가장 나쁜 것이며, 우리가 회개할 때 특별히 슬퍼해야 하는 것이다. 또한 하나님이 그들을 거슬러 행하셨음을 고백해야 한다. 환난의 도구들과 이차 원인들을 넘어, 하나님께서 자신들의 죄에 따라 그렇게 행하셨음을 고백해야 한다. 바로 이런 고백이 그들의 해방의 여명이 밝아오기 직전에 다니엘에 의해 이루어졌고(단 9장), 에스라 9장과 느헤미야 9:2에서도 마찬가지다.

2. 회개와 경건한 슬픔. "할례를 받지 않은 마음이 겸손해진다면." 회개하지 않고 믿지 않고 겸손하지 않은 마음은 할례를 받지 않은 마음이다. 하나님과 언약 관계에 있는 이스라엘 사람의 마음이 아니라, 하나님께 이방인인 이방 사람의 마음이다. 참된 할례는 마음의 것이며(롬 2:29), 그것이 없으면 육체의 할례도 아무 소용이 없다(렘 9:26). 회개 가운데 이 할례 받지 않은 마음이 겸손해진다. 진실로 깨어지고 통회하는 것이다. 겸손케 하는 섭리 아래 겸손한 마음이 구원과 참된 위로를 준비시킨다.

3. 하나님의 모든 처사에 대한 복종. "자기 죄악의 형벌을 기꺼이 받는다면"(레 26:41, 43). 하나님을 의롭다 하고 자신을 정죄하며, 받을 만한 것으로서 징계를 인내로이 받아들이고, 하나님이 선한 뜻으로 계획하신 것으로 그 목적을 열심히 이루려는 것이다. 그것을 친절로 받아들이고, 약으로 먹으며, 유익을 얻는다면, 그들은 참된 회개자들이다.

II. 회개하면 얻을 자비가 어떻게 묘사되는가.

1. 버림받지 않을 것이다. "이 모든 것에도 불구하고 내가 그들을 던져버리지 않겠다"(레 26:43-44). 아들이 아무리 심하게 도발했더라도 쫓아낼 수 없어 안타까워하는 자애로운 아버지처럼 말씀하신다. "내가 어찌 이것을 행할 수 있겠는가?"(호 11:8-9). 이방 세계에서 자신을 위한 교회의 기초를 놓으실 때까지는 유대 교회가 완전히 버림받지 않았다.

2. 기억하실 것이다. "내가 그 땅을 기억할 것이다"(레 26:42). 이는 앞서 주어진 약속, "내가 내 언약을 기억하겠다"(레 26:42, 45)에 근거한다. 하나님께서 언약을 기억하신다는 것은 오직 그분의 신실하심으로 약속을 이행하심을 뜻한다. 우리 안에 그분의 은총을 받을 만한 것이 있어서가 아니라, 그분이 약속하신 대로 하시기 때문이다. 이것이 교회의 탄원이다. "언약을 돌아보소서"(시 74:20). 그분은 회개에 여지를 두고 회개 시 사죄를 약속하는 언약의 구조를 기억하시고, 아브라함과 이삭과 야곱에게 약속되었다가 때가 차매 오신 언약의 중보자를 기억하신다. 언약이라는 단어가 세 번 반복되는 것은, 하나님께서 항상 그것을 기억하시며 우리도 기억하기를 원하신다는 것을 암시한다. 언약이 세워진 사람들도 특이한 방식으로, 야곱에서 시작하여 점차 가장 오래된 약속, 곧 믿음의 조상에게 주어진 약속으로 올라가는 순서로 언급된다. "그가 야곱에게 성실을 이루시며 아브라함에게 인자를 더하시리니"(미 7:20). 그들의 유익을 위하여(레 26:45), 그들의 공로가 아닌 그들의 유익을 위하여, 그분은 자신들의 조상의 언약을 기억하시고, 아무리 합당하지 않은 자들에게도 그 덕분에 친절을 베푸신다. 그들은 선택으로 말미암아 조상들을 인하여 사랑받는 자들이라고 한다(롬 11:28). 하나님을 거슬러 죄의 길로 행하던 자들이 진실한 회개로 그분께 돌아오면, 그분도 심판의 길로 그들을 거슬러 행하시다가 은혜 언약에 따라 특별한 자비의 길로 그들에게 돌아오신다. 회개 시 하나님께서 용서하시는 것만큼 빨리 회개할 준비가 된 자는 아무도 없다.

마지막으로, 이것들이 하나님께서 시내산에서 모세를 통해 이스라엘 자손과의 사이에 세우신 율법과 규례와 법도라고 한다(레 26:46). 그분의 교회와의 교제는 그분의 율법으로 유지된다. 그분은 율법을 주심으로 그들에 대한 주권만이 아니라 은총도 나타내시고, 그들은 율법을 준수함으로 거룩한 두려움만이 아니라 거룩한 사랑도 나타낸다. 이렇게 그것이 단순한 법이 아니라 언약으로서 그들 사이에 세워진다. 그분은 사람의 끈으로, 곧 사람다운 방식으로 이끄신다.

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