23 Only be sure that you don't eat the blood: for the blood is the life; and you shall not eat the life with the flesh.
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Only be. sure that thou eat not. It is not without cause that he earnestly exhorts them to inflexible firmness, because it was both a matter trifling in appearance, and its observation troublesome, whilst it was easy to decline from it on account of the universal example of the Gentiles. For if they considered within themselves that it contributed not to holiness that they should not touch blood, hence a snare to indulgence might easily have arisen.
For the blood is the life - And the life being offered as an atonement, consequently the blood should not be eaten. See the notes on Leviticus 17:11, where the subject of the vitality of the blood is largely considered.
Only be sure that thou eat not the blood: for the blood (m) [is] the life; and thou mayest not eat the life with the flesh.
(m) Because the life of beasts is in their blood.
Only be sure that thou eat not the blood,.... This is repeated again, that they might be careful to observe the law concerning that:
for the blood is the life: which is the reason given for the prohibition of it; see Gill on Leviticus 17:11,
and thou mayest not eat the life with the flesh: by which it seems that the meaning of the law was, that the blood might not be eaten in or with the flesh, but to be let out of it, or the fish not to be eaten raw, but dressed; for there were various laws about eating of blood, which are differently expressed.
The law relating to the blood, as in Deuteronomy 12:16. - "Be strong not to eat the blood," i.e., stedfastly resist the temptation to eat it.
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