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<div2 id="Lev.vii" n="vii" next="Lev.viii" prev="Lev.vi" progress="52.62%" title="Chapter VI">
<h2 id="Lev.vii-p0.1">L E V I T I C U S</h2>
<h3 id="Lev.vii-p0.2">CHAP. VI.</h3>
<p class="intro" id="Lev.vii-p1">The first seven verses of this chapter might fitly
have been added to the foregoing chapter, being a continuation of
the law of the trespass-offering, and the putting of other cases in
which it was to be offered; and with this end the instructions God
gave concerning the several kinds of sacrifices that should be
offered: and then at <scripRef id="Lev.vii-p1.1" osisRef="Bible:Lev.6.8" parsed="|Lev|6|8|0|0" passage="Le 6:8"><i>v.</i>
8</scripRef> (which in the original begins a new section of the
law) he comes to appoint the several rites and ceremonies
concerning these sacrifices which had not been mentioned before. I.
The burnt-offering, <scripRef id="Lev.vii-p1.2" osisRef="Bible:Lev.6.8-Lev.6.13" parsed="|Lev|6|8|6|13" passage="Le 6:8-13">ver.
8-13</scripRef>. II. The meat-offering (<scripRef id="Lev.vii-p1.3" osisRef="Bible:Lev.6.11-Lev.6.18" parsed="|Lev|6|11|6|18" passage="Le 6:11-18">ver. 11-18</scripRef>), particularly that at the
consecration of the priest, <scripRef id="Lev.vii-p1.4" osisRef="Bible:Lev.6.19-Lev.6.23" parsed="|Lev|6|19|6|23" passage="Le 6:19-23">ver.
19-23</scripRef>. III. The sin-offering, <scripRef id="Lev.vii-p1.5" osisRef="Bible:Lev.6.24-Lev.6.30" parsed="|Lev|6|24|6|30" passage="Le 6:24-30">ver. 24</scripRef>, &amp;c.</p>
<scripCom id="Lev.vii-p1.6" osisRef="Bible:Lev.6" parsed="|Lev|6|0|0|0" passage="Le 6" type="Commentary"/>
<scripCom id="Lev.vii-p1.7" osisRef="Bible:Lev.6.1-Lev.6.7" parsed="|Lev|6|1|6|7" passage="Le 6:1-7" type="Commentary"/><div class="Commentary" id="Bible:Lev.6.1-Lev.6.7">
<h4 id="Lev.vii-p1.8">Law of the
Trespass-Offering. (<span class="smallcaps" id="Lev.vii-p1.9">b. c.</span> 1490.)</h4>
<p class="passage" id="Lev.vii-p2">1 And the <span class="smallcaps" id="Lev.vii-p2.1">Lord</span>
spake unto Moses, saying,   2 If a soul sin, and commit a
trespass against the <span class="smallcaps" id="Lev.vii-p2.2">Lord</span>, and lie
unto his neighbour in that which was delivered him to keep, or in
fellowship, or in a thing taken away by violence, or hath deceived
his neighbour;   3 Or have found that which was lost, and
lieth concerning it, and sweareth falsely; in any of all these that
a man doeth, sinning therein:   4 Then it shall be, because he
hath sinned, and is guilty, that he shall restore that which he
took violently away, or the thing which he hath deceitfully gotten,
or that which was delivered him to keep, or the lost thing which he
found,   5 Or all that about which he hath sworn falsely; he
shall even restore it in the principal, and shall add the fifth
part more thereto, <i>and</i> give it unto him to whom it
appertaineth, in the day of his trespass offering.   6 And he
shall bring his trespass offering unto the <span class="smallcaps" id="Lev.vii-p2.3">Lord</span>, a ram without blemish out of the flock,
with thy estimation, for a trespass offering, unto the priest:
  7 And the priest shall make an atonement for him before the
<span class="smallcaps" id="Lev.vii-p2.4">Lord</span>: and it shall be forgiven him
for any thing of all that he hath done in trespassing therein.</p>
<p class="indent" id="Lev.vii-p3">This is the latter part of the law of the
trespass-offering: the former part, which concerned trespasses
about holy things, we had in the close of the foregoing chapter;
this concerns trespasses in common things. Observe here,</p>
<p class="indent" id="Lev.vii-p4">I. The trespass supposed, <scripRef id="Lev.vii-p4.1" osisRef="Bible:Lev.6.2-Lev.6.3" parsed="|Lev|6|2|6|3" passage="Le 6:2,3"><i>v.</i> 2, 3</scripRef>. Though all the
instances relate to our neighbour, yet it is called a <i>trespass
against the Lord,</i> because, though the injury be done
immediately to our neighbour, yet an affront is thereby given to
his Maker and our Master. He that speaks evil of his brother is
said to speak evil of the law, and consequently of the Law-maker,
<scripRef id="Lev.vii-p4.2" osisRef="Bible:Jas.4.11" parsed="|Jas|4|11|0|0" passage="Jam 4:11">Jam. iv. 11</scripRef>. Though the
person injured be ever so mean and despicable, and every way our
inferior, yet the injury reflects upon that God who has made the
command of loving our neighbour second to that of loving himself.
The trespasses specified are, 1. Denying a trust: <i>If a man lie
unto his neighbour in that which was delivered him to keep,</i> or,
which is worse, which was lent him for his use. If we claim that as
our own which is only borrowed, left in our custody, or committed
to our care, this is a trespass <i>against the Lord,</i> who, for
the benefit of human society, will have property and truth
maintained. 2. Defrauding a partner: <i>If a man lie in
fellowship,</i> claiming a sole interest in that wherein he has but
a joint-interest. 3. Disowning a manifest wrong: <i>If a man</i>
has the front to <i>lie in a thing taken away by violence,</i>
which ordinarily cannot be hid. 4. Deceiving in commerce, or, as
some think, by false accusation; if a man have <i>deceitfully
oppressed</i> his neighbour, as some read it, either withholding
what is due or extorting what is not. 5. Detaining what is found,
and denying it (<scripRef id="Lev.vii-p4.3" osisRef="Bible:Lev.6.3" parsed="|Lev|6|3|0|0" passage="Le 6:3"><i>v.</i> 3</scripRef>);
if a man have <i>found that which was lost,</i> he must not call it
his own presently, but endeavour to find out the owner, to whom it
must be returned; this is doing as we would be done by: but he that
<i>lies concerning it,</i> that falsely says he knows nothing of
it, especially if he back this lie with a false oath,
<i>trespasseth against the Lord,</i> who to every thing that is
said is a witness, but in an oath he is the party appealed to, and
highly affronted when he is called to witness to a lie.</p>
<p class="indent" id="Lev.vii-p5">II. The trespass-offering appointed. 1.
<i>In the day of his trespass-offering</i> he must make
satisfaction to his brother. This must be first done <i>if thy
brother hath aught against thee: Because he hath sinned and is
guilty,</i> (<scripRef id="Lev.vii-p5.1" osisRef="Bible:Lev.6.4-Lev.6.5" parsed="|Lev|6|4|6|5" passage="Le 6:4,5"><i>v.</i> 4,
5</scripRef>), that is, is convicted of his guilt by his own
conscience, and is touched with remorse for it; seeing himself
guilty before God, let him faithfully restore all that he has got
by fraud or oppression, with a fifth part added, to make amends to
the owner for the loss and trouble he had sustained in the mean
time; let him account both for debt and damages. Note, Where wrong
has been done restitution must be made; and till it is made to the
utmost of our power, or an equivalent accepted by the person
wronged, we cannot have the comfort of the forgiveness of the sin;
for the keeping of what is unjustly got avows the taking, and both
together make but one continued act of unrighteousness. To repent
is to undo what we have done amiss, which (whatever we pretend) we
cannot be said to do till we restore what has been got by it, as
Zaccheus (<scripRef id="Lev.vii-p5.2" osisRef="Bible:Luke.19.8" parsed="|Luke|19|8|0|0" passage="Lu 19:8">Luke xix. 8</scripRef>), and
make satisfaction for the wrong done. 2. He must <i>then come and
offer his gift,</i> must <i>bring his trespass-offering to the
Lord</i> whom he had offended; and the priest must make an
atonement for him, <scripRef id="Lev.vii-p5.3" osisRef="Bible:Lev.6.6-Lev.6.7" parsed="|Lev|6|6|6|7" passage="Le 6:6,7"><i>v.</i> 6,
7</scripRef>. This trespass-offering could not, of itself, make
satisfaction for sin, nor reconciliation between God and the
sinner, but as it signified the atonement that was to be made by
our Lord Jesus, when he should make his soul <i>an offering or
sin,</i> a <i>trespass-offering;</i> it is the same word that is
here used, <scripRef id="Lev.vii-p5.4" osisRef="Bible:Isa.53.10" parsed="|Isa|53|10|0|0" passage="Isa 53:10">Isa. liii. 10</scripRef>.
The trespasses here mentioned are trespasses still against the law
of Christ, which insists as much upon justice and truth as ever the
law of nature or the law of Moses did; and though now we may have
them pardoned without a trespass-offering, yet not without true
repentance, restitution, reformation, and a humble faith in the
righteousness of Christ: and, if any make the more bold with these
sins because they are not now put to the expense of a
trespass-offering for them, they turn the grace of God into
wantonness, and so bring upon themselves a swift destruction. The
Lord is the avenger of all such, <scripRef id="Lev.vii-p5.5" osisRef="Bible:1Thess.4.6" parsed="|1Thess|4|6|0|0" passage="1Th 4:6">1
Thess. iv. 6</scripRef>.</p>
</div><scripCom id="Lev.vii-p5.6" osisRef="Bible:Lev.6.8-Lev.6.13" parsed="|Lev|6|8|6|13" passage="Le 6:8-13" type="Commentary"/><div class="Commentary" id="Bible:Lev.6.8-Lev.6.13">
<h4 id="Lev.vii-p5.7">Law of the Burnt-Offering. (<span class="smallcaps" id="Lev.vii-p5.8">b. c.</span> 1490.)</h4>
<p class="passage" id="Lev.vii-p6">8 And the <span class="smallcaps" id="Lev.vii-p6.1">Lord</span>
spake unto Moses, saying,   9 Command Aaron and his sons,
saying, This <i>is</i> the law of the burnt offering: It <i>is</i>
the burnt offering, because of the burning upon the altar all night
unto the morning, and the fire of the altar shall be burning in it.
  10 And the priest shall put on his linen garment, and his
linen breeches shall he put upon his flesh, and take up the ashes
which the fire hath consumed with the burnt offering on the altar,
and he shall put them beside the altar.   11 And he shall put
off his garments, and put on other garments, and carry forth the
ashes without the camp unto a clean place.   12 And the fire
upon the altar shall be burning in it; it shall not be put out: and
the priest shall burn wood on it every morning, and lay the burnt
offering in order upon it; and he shall burn thereon the fat of the
peace offerings.   13 The fire shall ever be burning upon the
altar; it shall never go out.</p>
<p class="indent" id="Lev.vii-p7">Hitherto we have had the instructions which
Moses was directed to give to the people concerning the sacrifices;
but here begin the instructions he was to give to the priests; he
must <i>command Aaron and his sons,</i> <scripRef id="Lev.vii-p7.1" osisRef="Bible:Lev.6.9" parsed="|Lev|6|9|0|0" passage="Le 6:9"><i>v.</i> 9</scripRef>. The priests were rulers in the
house of God, but these rulers must be ruled; and those that had
the command of others must themselves be commanded. Let ministers
remember that not only commissions, but commands, were given to
Aaron and his sons, who must be in subjection to them.</p>
<p class="indent" id="Lev.vii-p8">In these verses we have the law of the
burnt-offering, as far as it was the peculiar care of the priests.
The daily sacrifice of a lamb, which was offered morning and
evening for the whole congregation, is here chiefly referred
to.</p>
<p class="indent" id="Lev.vii-p9">I. The priest must take care of the ashes
of the burnt-offering, that they be decently disposed of, <scripRef id="Lev.vii-p9.1" osisRef="Bible:Lev.6.10-Lev.6.11" parsed="|Lev|6|10|6|11" passage="Le 6:10,11"><i>v.</i> 10, 11</scripRef>. He must clear the
altar of them every morning, and put them on the east side of the
altar, which was furthest from the sanctuary; this he must do in
his linen garment, which he always wore when he did any service at
the altar; and then he must shift himself, and put on other
garments, either such as were his common wear, or (as some think)
other priestly garments less honourable, and must <i>carry the
ashes into a clean place without the camp.</i> Now, 1. God would
have this done, for the honour of his altar and the sacrifices that
were burnt upon it. Even the ashes of the sacrifices must be
preserved, to testify the regard God had to it; by the
burnt-offering <i>he</i> was honoured, and therefore thus <i>it</i>
was honoured. And some
think that this care which was taken of the ashes of the sacrifice
typified the burial of our Saviour; his dead body (the ashes of his
sacrifice) was carefully laid up in a garden, in a new sepulchre,
which was a <i>clean place.</i> It was also requisite that the
altar should be kept as clean as might be; the fire upon it would
burn the better, and it is decent in a house to have a clean
fire-side. 2. God would have the priests themselves to keep it so,
to teach them and us to stoop to the meanest services for the
honour of God and of his altar. The priest himself must not only
kindle the fire, but clean the hearth, and carry out the ashes.
God's servants must think nothing below them but sin.</p>
<p class="indent" id="Lev.vii-p10">II. The priest must take care of the fire
upon the altar, that it be kept <i>always burning.</i> This is much
insisted on here (<scripRef id="Lev.vii-p10.1" osisRef="Bible:Lev.6.9 Bible:Lev.6.12" parsed="|Lev|6|9|0|0;|Lev|6|12|0|0" passage="Le 6:9,12"><i>v.</i> 9,
12</scripRef>), and this express law is given: <i>The fire shall
ever be burning upon the altar, it shall never go out,</i>
<scripRef id="Lev.vii-p10.2" osisRef="Bible:Lev.6.13" parsed="|Lev|6|13|0|0" passage="Le 6:13"><i>v.</i> 13</scripRef>. We may suppose
that no day passed without some extraordinary sacrifices, which
were always offered between the morning and evening lamb; so that
from morning to night the fire on the altar was kept up of course.
But to preserve it <i>all night unto the morning</i> (<scripRef id="Lev.vii-p10.3" osisRef="Bible:Lev.6.9" parsed="|Lev|6|9|0|0" passage="Le 6:9"><i>v.</i> 9</scripRef>) required some care. Those
that keep good houses never let their kitchen fire go out;
therefore God would thus give an instance of his good
house-keeping. The first fire upon the altar came <i>from
heaven</i> (<scripRef id="Lev.vii-p10.4" osisRef="Bible:Lev.9.24" parsed="|Lev|9|24|0|0" passage="Le 9:24"><i>ch.</i> ix.
24</scripRef>), so that by keeping that up continually with a
constant supply of fuel all their sacrifices throughout all their
generations might be said to be consumed with that fire from
heaven, in token of God's acceptance. If, through carelessness,
they should ever let it go out, they could not expect to have it so
kindled again. Accordingly the Jews tell us that the fire never did
go out upon the altar, till the captivity in Babylon. This is
referred to <scripRef id="Lev.vii-p10.5" osisRef="Bible:Isa.31.9" parsed="|Isa|31|9|0|0" passage="Isa 31:9">Isa. xxxi. 9</scripRef>,
where God is said <i>to have his fire in Zion, and his furnace in
Jerusalem.</i> By this law we are taught to keep up in our minds a
constant disposition to all acts of piety and devotion, an habitual
affection to divine things, so as to be always ready to every good
word and work. We must not only not <i>quench the Spirit,</i> but
we must <i>stir up the gift</i> that is in us. Though we be not
always sacrificing, yet we must keep the fire of holy love always
burning; and thus we must pray always.</p>
</div><scripCom id="Lev.vii-p10.6" osisRef="Bible:Lev.6" parsed="|Lev|6|0|0|0" passage="Le 6" type="Commentary"/>
<scripCom id="Lev.vii-p10.7" osisRef="Bible:Lev.6.14-Lev.6.23" parsed="|Lev|6|14|6|23" passage="Le 6:14-23" type="Commentary"/><div class="Commentary" id="Bible:Lev.6.14-Lev.6.23">
<h4 id="Lev.vii-p10.8">Law of the Meat-Offering. (<span class="smallcaps" id="Lev.vii-p10.9">b. c.</span> 1490.)</h4>
<p class="passage" id="Lev.vii-p11">14 And this <i>is</i> the law of the meat
offering: the sons of Aaron shall offer it before the <span class="smallcaps" id="Lev.vii-p11.1">Lord</span>, before the altar.   15 And he shall
take of it his handful, of the flour of the meat offering, and of
the oil thereof, and all the frankincense which <i>is</i> upon the
meat offering, and shall burn <i>it</i> upon the altar <i>for</i> a
sweet savour, <i>even</i> the memorial of it, unto the <span class="smallcaps" id="Lev.vii-p11.2">Lord</span>.   16 And the remainder thereof shall
Aaron and his sons eat: with unleavened bread shall it be eaten in
the holy place; in the court of the tabernacle of the congregation
they shall eat it.   17 It shall not be baken with leaven. I
have given it <i>unto them for</i> their portion of my offerings
made by fire; it <i>is</i> most holy, as <i>is</i> the sin
offering, and as the trespass offering.   18 All the males
among the children of Aaron shall eat of it. <i>It shall be</i> a
statute for ever in your generations concerning the offerings of
the <span class="smallcaps" id="Lev.vii-p11.3">Lord</span> made by fire: every one
that toucheth them shall be holy.   19 And the <span class="smallcaps" id="Lev.vii-p11.4">Lord</span> spake unto Moses, saying,   20 This
<i>is</i> the offering of Aaron and of his sons, which they shall
offer unto the <span class="smallcaps" id="Lev.vii-p11.5">Lord</span> in the day when
he is anointed; the tenth part of an ephah of fine flour for a meat
offering perpetual, half of it in the morning, and half thereof at
night.   21 In a pan it shall be made with oil; <i>and when it
is</i> baken, thou shalt bring it in: <i>and</i> the baken pieces
of the meat offering shalt thou offer <i>for</i> a sweet savour
unto the <span class="smallcaps" id="Lev.vii-p11.6">Lord</span>.   22 And the
priest of his sons that is anointed in his stead shall offer it:
<i>it is</i> a statute for ever unto the <span class="smallcaps" id="Lev.vii-p11.7">Lord</span>; it shall be wholly burnt.   23 For
every meat offering for the priest shall be wholly burnt: it shall
not be eaten.</p>
<p class="indent" id="Lev.vii-p12">The meat-offering was either that which was
offered by the people or that by the priests at their consecration.
Now,</p>
<p class="indent" id="Lev.vii-p13">I. As to the common meat-offering,</p>
<p class="indent" id="Lev.vii-p14">1. Only a handful of it was to be burnt
upon the altar; all the rest was allowed to the priests for their
food. The law of the burnt-offerings was such as imposed upon the
priests a great deal of care and work, but allowed them little
profit; for the flesh was wholly burnt, and the priests had nothing
but the skin. But to make them amends the greatest part of the
meat-offering was their own. The burning of a handful of it upon
the altar (<scripRef id="Lev.vii-p14.1" osisRef="Bible:Lev.6.15" parsed="|Lev|6|15|0|0" passage="Le 6:15"><i>v.</i> 15</scripRef>) was
ordered before, <scripRef id="Lev.vii-p14.2" osisRef="Bible:Lev.2.2 Bible:Lev.2.9" parsed="|Lev|2|2|0|0;|Lev|2|9|0|0" passage="Le 2:2,9"><i>ch.</i> ii. 2,
9</scripRef>. Here the remainder of it is consigned to the priests,
the servants of God's house: <i>I have given it unto them for their
portion of my offerings,</i> <scripRef id="Lev.vii-p14.3" osisRef="Bible:Lev.6.17" parsed="|Lev|6|17|0|0" passage="Le 6:17"><i>v.</i>
17</scripRef>. Note, (1.) It is the will of God that his ministers
should be well provided for with food convenient; and what is given
to them he accepts as offered to himself, if it be done with a
single eye. (2.) All Christians, being spiritual priests, do
themselves share in the spiritual sacrifices they offer. It is not
God that is the gainer by them; the handful burnt upon the altar
was not worth speaking of, in comparison with the priests' share;
we ourselves are the gainers by our religious services. Let God
have all the frankincense, and the priests shall have the flour and
the oil; what we give to God the praise and glory of we may take to
ourselves the comfort and benefit of.</p>
<p class="indent" id="Lev.vii-p15">2. The laws concerning the eating of it
were, (1.) That it must be <i>eaten unleavened,</i> <scripRef id="Lev.vii-p15.1" osisRef="Bible:Lev.6.16" parsed="|Lev|6|16|0|0" passage="Le 6:16"><i>v.</i> 16</scripRef>. What was offered to God
must have no leaven in it, and the priests must have it as the
altar had it, and no otherwise. Thus must we keep the feasts of the
Lord with the <i>unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.</i> (2.)
It must be eaten in <i>the court of the tabernacle</i> (here called
the <i>holy place</i>), in some room prepared by the side of the
court for this purpose. It was a great crime to carry any of it out
of the court. The very eating of it was a sacred rite, by which
they were to honour God, and therefore it must be done in a
religious manner, and with a holy reverence, which was preserved by
confining it to the holy place. (3.) The males only must eat of it,
<scripRef id="Lev.vii-p15.2" osisRef="Bible:Lev.6.18" parsed="|Lev|6|18|0|0" passage="Le 6:18"><i>v.</i> 18</scripRef>. Of the less
holy things, as the first-fruits and tithes, and the shoulder and
breasts of the peace-offerings, the <i>daughters</i> of the priests
might eat, for they might be carried out of the court; but this was
of the most holy things, which being to be eaten only in the
tabernacle, the <i>sons</i> of Aaron only might eat of it. (4.) The
priests only that were clean might eat of it: <i>Every one that
toucheth them shall be holy,</i> <scripRef id="Lev.vii-p15.3" osisRef="Bible:Lev.6.18" parsed="|Lev|6|18|0|0" passage="Le 6:18"><i>v.</i> 18</scripRef>. Holy things for holy persons.
Some read it, <i>Every thing that toucheth it shall be holy:</i> Al
the furniture of the table on which these holy things were eaten
must be appropriated to that use only, and never after used as
common things.</p>
<p class="indent" id="Lev.vii-p16">II. As to the consecration meat-offering,
which was offered for the priests themselves, it was to be
<i>wholly burnt, and none of it eaten,</i> <scripRef id="Lev.vii-p16.1" osisRef="Bible:Lev.6.23" parsed="|Lev|6|23|0|0" passage="Le 6:23"><i>v.</i> 23</scripRef>. It comes in here as an exception
to the foregoing law. It should seem that this law concerning the
meat-offering of initiation did not only oblige the high priest to
offer it, and on that day only that he was anointed, and so for his
successors in the day they were anointed; but the Jewish writers
say that by this law every priest, on the day he first entered upon
his ministry, was bound to offer this meat-offering,—that the high
priest was bound to offer it every day of his life, from the day in
which he was anointed,—and that it was to be offered besides the
meat-offering that attended the morning and evening sacrifice,
because it is said here to be a <i>meat-offering perpetual,</i>
<scripRef id="Lev.vii-p16.2" osisRef="Bible:Lev.6.20" parsed="|Lev|6|20|0|0" passage="Le 6:20"><i>v.</i> 20</scripRef>. Josephus says,
"The high priest sacrificed twice every day at his own charges, and
this was his sacrifice." Note, Those whom God has advanced above
others in dignity and power ought to consider that he expects more
from them than from others, and should attend to every intimation
of service to be done for him. The meat-offering of the priest was
to be baked as if it were to be eaten, and yet it must be wholly
burnt. Though the priest that ministered was to be paid for serving
the people, yet there was no reason that he should be paid for
serving the high priest, who was the father of the family of the
priests, and whom therefore any priest should take a pleasure in
serving gratis. Nor was it fit that the priests should eat of the
offerings of a priest; for as the sins of the people were typically
transferred to the priests, which was signified by their eating of
their offerings (<scripRef id="Lev.vii-p16.3" osisRef="Bible:Hos.4.8" parsed="|Hos|4|8|0|0" passage="Ho 4:8">Hos. iv. 8</scripRef>),
so the sins of the priests must be typically transferred to the
altar, which therefore must eat up all their offerings. We are all
undone, both ministers and people, if we must <i>bear our own
iniquity;</i> nor could we have had any comfort or hope if God had
not laid on his dear Son the iniquity of us all, and he is both the
priest and the altar.</p>
</div><scripCom id="Lev.vii-p16.4" osisRef="Bible:Lev.6.24-Lev.6.30" parsed="|Lev|6|24|6|30" passage="Le 6:24-30" type="Commentary"/><div class="Commentary" id="Bible:Lev.6.24-Lev.6.30">
<h4 id="Lev.vii-p16.5">Law of the Sin-Offering. (<span class="smallcaps" id="Lev.vii-p16.6">b. c.</span> 1490.)</h4>
<p class="passage" id="Lev.vii-p17">24 And the <span class="smallcaps" id="Lev.vii-p17.1">Lord</span>
spake unto Moses, saying, 25 Speak unto Aaron and to his sons,
saying, This <i>is</i> the law of the sin offering: In the place
where the burnt offering is killed shall the sin offering be killed
before the <span class="smallcaps" id="Lev.vii-p17.2">Lord</span>: it <i>is</i> most
holy. 26 The priest that offereth it for sin shall eat it: in the
holy place shall it be eaten, in the court of the tabernacle of the
congregation. 27 Whatsoever shall touch the flesh thereof shall be
holy: and when there is sprinkled of the blood thereof upon any
garment, thou shalt wash that whereon it was sprinkled in the holy
place. 28 But the earthen vessel wherein it is sodden shall be
broken: and if it be sodden in a brazen pot, it shall be both
scoured, and rinsed in water. 29 All the males among the priests
shall eat thereof: it <i>is</i> most holy. 30 And no sin offering,
whereof <i>any</i> of the blood is brought into the tabernacle of
the congregation to reconcile <i>withal</i> in the holy
<i>place,</i> shall be eaten: it shall be burnt in the fire.</p>
<p class="indent" id="Lev.vii-p18">We have here so much of the law of the
sin-offering as did peculiarly concern the priests that offered it.
As, 1. That it must be killed <i>in the place where the
burnt-offering was killed</i> (<scripRef id="Lev.vii-p18.1" osisRef="Bible:Lev.6.25" parsed="|Lev|6|25|0|0" passage="Le 6:25"><i>v.</i> 25</scripRef>), that is, on the north side of
the altar (<scripRef id="Lev.vii-p18.2" osisRef="Bible:Lev.1.11" parsed="|Lev|1|11|0|0" passage="Le 1:11"><i>ch.</i> i.
11</scripRef>), which, some think typified the crucifying of Christ
on mount Calvary, which was on the north side of Jerusalem. 2. That
the priest who offered it for the sinner was (with his sons, or
other priests, <scripRef id="Lev.vii-p18.3" osisRef="Bible:Lev.6.29" parsed="|Lev|6|29|0|0" passage="Le 6:29"><i>v.</i> 29</scripRef>)
to eat the flesh of it, after the blood and fat had been offered to
God, in the <i>court of the tabernacle,</i> <scripRef id="Lev.vii-p18.4" osisRef="Bible:Lev.6.26" parsed="|Lev|6|26|0|0" passage="Le 6:26"><i>v.</i> 26</scripRef>. Hereby they were to <i>bear the
iniquity of the congregation,</i> as it is explained, <scripRef id="Lev.vii-p18.5" osisRef="Bible:Lev.10.17" parsed="|Lev|10|17|0|0" passage="Le 10:17"><i>ch.</i> x. 17</scripRef>. 3. The blood of the
sin-offering was with great reverence to be washed out of the
clothes on which it happened to light (<scripRef id="Lev.vii-p18.6" osisRef="Bible:Lev.6.27" parsed="|Lev|6|27|0|0" passage="Le 6:27"><i>v.</i> 27</scripRef>), which signified the awful
regard we ought to have to the blood of Christ, not counting it a
common thing; that blood must be sprinkled on the conscience, not
on the raiment. 4. The vessel in which the flesh of the
sin-offering was boiled must be broken if it were an earthen one,
and, if a brazen one, well washed, <scripRef id="Lev.vii-p18.7" osisRef="Bible:Lev.6.28" parsed="|Lev|6|28|0|0" passage="Le 6:28"><i>v.</i> 28</scripRef>. This intimated that the
defilement was not wholly taken away by the offering, but did
rather cleave to it, such was the weakness and deficiency of those
sacrifices; but the blood of Christ thoroughly cleanses from all
sin, and after it there needs no cleansing. 5. That all this must
be understood of the common sin-offerings, not of those for the
priest, or the body of the congregation, either occasional, or
stated upon the day of atonement; for it had been before ordained,
and was now ratified, that if the blood of the offering was brought
into the holy place, as it was in those extraordinary cases, the
flesh was not to be eaten, but burnt without the camp, <scripRef id="Lev.vii-p18.8" osisRef="Bible:Lev.6.30" parsed="|Lev|6|30|0|0" passage="Le 6:30"><i>v.</i> 30</scripRef>. Hence the apostle infers
the advantage we have under the gospel above what they had under
the law; for though the blood of Christ was <i>brought into the
tabernacle, to reconcile within the holy place,</i> yet we have a
right by faith to <i>eat of the altar</i> (<scripRef id="Lev.vii-p18.9" osisRef="Bible:Heb.13.10-Heb.13.12" parsed="|Heb|13|10|13|12" passage="Heb 13:10-12">Heb. xiii. 10-12</scripRef>), and so to take the
comfort of the great propitiation.</p>
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