VERSE 12.
The particular use of them followes, and so it concernes either
- 1. The trespasse offering, to ver. 19.
- 2. The sinne offering, ver. 19.
- 3. The burnt offering, ver. 20.
The trespasse offering must be considered,
- 1. In the waving of it before the Lord, ver. 12.
- 2. In the killing of it in the holy place, ver. 13.
- 3. In the sprinkling of it, ver. 14. to 19.
In generall we may note, that there needs an offering for trespasses, even for those casuall wrongs we doe either against God or man, that we need the sacrifice of Christ for them; we need to goe to God to forgive us our tres∣passes through Christ.
2. The waving of them before the Lord might signifie,
1. The extreame usage of Christ in suffering for our sins.
2. The waving of Christ in the preaching of the Gospell, he being di∣versly shaked to and fro in the divers manners of propounding of Christ in the Gospell.
3. The moving of the lips of the sinner in his confession and prayer before God.
4. It might note the trembling of the Christian when hee comes first unto God, and the various conflicts in his soule with which he is shaken, and yet Christ is accepted as an offering for them before the Lord for all their feare, and doubtings, and tossings of temptations; for the Christian holds his sacrifice in his hands for all his feares.
3. The pinte of oyle that was to be waved, also may note,
- 1. That there is abundance of joyes will follow care, and conscience in faith, and repentance for trespasses.
- 2. That before we can get abundance of joy, it must be waved before the Lord, that is, Christ must beg it for us in heaven, and preach it often to us in earth, we must heare joy and gladnesse.
- 3. It may perhaps note that marvellous feare and sorrow of heart for sinne, which a Christian feeles when he is most joyed by the holy Ghost: He rejoyceth with trembling, Psal. 2.11.