The Expositor‘s Bible: The Book of Leviticus

Samuel H. Kellogg‘s The Expositor‘s Bible: The Book of Leviticus is a learned evangelical commentary on one of Scripture‘s most ritual-intensive books. Treating sacrifice, priesthood, purity, holiness, and the Day of Atonement as coherent theological themes, Kellogg reads Leviticus within the Pentateuch and in relation to Christian doctrine. His style is characteristic of the Expositor‘s Bible series: exegetical, homiletic, and Victorian in cadence, combining philological care with devotional seriousness and typological interpretation. Kellogg was an American Presbyterian minister, missionary, linguist, and biblical scholar whose years in India and later theological teaching sharpened his concern for the relation between ritual, revelation, and faith. His command of languages and commitment to historic Christian orthodoxy inform his treatment of Hebrew law not as antiquarian detail but as a divinely ordered pedagogy. The book reflects a nineteenth-century Protestant effort to answer critical scholarship while preserving the spiritual unity of the Bible. This volume is recommended for readers seeking more than a technical commentary: pastors, students of biblical theology, and historically minded lay readers will find in Kellogg a serious guide to Leviticus as worship, ethics, and theology.