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A Commentary on the Holy Scriptures: Leviticus is unavailable, but you can change that!

Lange’s Commentary on the Holy Scriptures has served as a standard reference for more than a century. The subtitle “Critical, Doctrinal, and Homiletical” aptly describes the three-pronged approach to the biblical text. This translated version of the German text is often considered by many to be superior to the original.

times.—עוֹנֵן, according to some authorities, a denom. verb from עָנָן = a cloud, and this sense has been followed by the A. V.; according to Rabbinical authorities, however, it is from עַיִן = the eye, and means to bewitch with an evil eye. In either case the general sense is in accordance with the preceding clause: to rely upon occult arts for the accomplishment of one’s purposes. Lange: “To the prohibition of the unhallowed sensual use of nature is added the prohibition of the demoniacal misinterpretation
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