Não flerte com o pecado
Não flerte com o pecado
Presumptuously. Literally, “with a high hand,” with express intent (see Deut. 17:12; Ps. 19:13).
Cut off. The sacrificial system provided no atonement for deliberate opposition to the will and commands of God.
Flertar com o pecado traz ruina à vida
Gathered sticks. The observance of the seventh-day Sabbath of the creation week was obligatory in the wilderness as in the Holy Land (Ex. 16:27–30), with death as the penalty for profanation (Ex. 31:14, 15; 35:2). In the wilderness, with its warm climate, fires were unnecessary for health, and were not to be lighted on the Sabbath (see on Ex. 16:23; 35:3). This man’s act was clearly presumptuous, thereforean illustration of the type of sin spoken of in Num. 15:30.
This man was the first to break the holy Sabbath since the giving of the law, at least so far as the record is concerned.
It was his defiant attitude that brought severe retribution.
Não siga os desejos do seu coração
The “fringes” were to be a constant reminder to the people that they belonged to God, and that in dress as in other habits they were to follow the principles He had imparted to them.