Post by Lee on Mar 26, 2014 2:01:31 GMT
The Nazarite was to avoid wine or vinegar of wine. ...That it should be forbidden to the high priest in the act of officiation, and to the Nazarite during the days of his separation, is proof that the things done under its inspiration are not acceptable to God........We may here understand why Jesus, the great antitypical Nazarite, refused, before crucifixion, to drink of the “vinegar, mingled with gall” (Matt. 27:34), which would have dulled pain, and enabled him to go through the ordeal of pain with an endurance not derived from faith, but from mere physical stupefaction
All men now called by the gospel to separation, are antitypical Nazarites. “Come out from among them, and be ye separate” (be ye Nazarites) “and I will receive you”. Their Nazariteship is uncontaminated with the wine of sec-tarianism with its howlings and shoutings and spiritual inebriations in general. They are quiet, calm, though fervent men of enlightened reason, like Christ, the great Nazarite-in-Chief.
(Regarding someone accidently dying next to them) ....Several important things are suggested by this. It shows the extreme scrupulosity of the divine law when a Nazarite could “sin by the dead” without intention on his part. We may be affected by this in the antitype. One “dying suddenly by us “would be one who had been alive—consequently a brother falling away from the faith. Yet the occurrence must be “by us”—near us—in contact with us—before it can have a defiling effect. That is, there must be intimacy and toleration and perhaps more, a cooperation amounting to saying “God-speed”, and so a “partaking of their evil deeds” (2 John 11).
All men now called by the gospel to separation, are antitypical Nazarites. “Come out from among them, and be ye separate” (be ye Nazarites) “and I will receive you”. Their Nazariteship is uncontaminated with the wine of sec-tarianism with its howlings and shoutings and spiritual inebriations in general. They are quiet, calm, though fervent men of enlightened reason, like Christ, the great Nazarite-in-Chief.
(Regarding someone accidently dying next to them) ....Several important things are suggested by this. It shows the extreme scrupulosity of the divine law when a Nazarite could “sin by the dead” without intention on his part. We may be affected by this in the antitype. One “dying suddenly by us “would be one who had been alive—consequently a brother falling away from the faith. Yet the occurrence must be “by us”—near us—in contact with us—before it can have a defiling effect. That is, there must be intimacy and toleration and perhaps more, a cooperation amounting to saying “God-speed”, and so a “partaking of their evil deeds” (2 John 11).