no leaven] This was not generall: for at Oblations of first fruits, such as were the wave-loaves, Leviticus 23:17. and at oblations of thanksgiving, leaven was admitted, Leviticus 7:13. yet the unleavened bread was more pure, and it served also, to renue the memory of the Israelites miraculous deliverance out of Egypt, when they went away in such hast, that they had not leisure to leaven their bread, Exodus 12:34. and it was more meet to represent our Saviour, the bread of life, for hypocrisie is signified by leaven, Luke 12:1. and the want of leaven signifieth sinceritie, 1 Corinthians 5:8. Besides these Religious reasons, some alleadge certaine Physicall considerations of leaven, as that it puffeth up the belly, and if it should be burned, would be more unsavory in the smell: but the former reasons may suffice. hony] Hony (as some thinke) was forbidden to be offered by the people of God, because it hath the operation of leaven; some, because the Gentiles used it in oblations to their Gods: and though they used salt in their sacrifices also, yet that was not forbidden, but prescribed, vers. 13. because salt prevents putrefaction, and makes that which is eaten with it more savoury to the taste; or because, where leaven is forbidden, there the bitter bondage of the Israelites is to be remembred, according to the precedent Annotation, wherefore unleavened bread and bitter hearbs are joyned together, Exodus 12:8. wherewith the sweetnesse of honey doth not suit, by which also (as some of the Ancients expound it) is signified the delight of the flesh: yet of both there might be an offering to the Priests, as the next words imply.