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1B E. 149( LEVITICUS, XVI. Of the day ofatonemet,
for himself, utd for his fering for the congregation. One must be slain, h!oly ofholies, to sprinkle the blood of the goat,
bouise. in token of a satisfection toGod's justice for sin, as of the bullock; and thus he was to make
7 And I-e shl take thile other sent away, in token of the remission atonement for the holy place; (v. 16.) that is,
7 And I -e shall take
or dismission of sin by the niecy of God. Both as the people's sins had provoked God to take
tihe two -oats, and ~0pret5 nta l,must he presented together to God, (v. 7.) be- away those tokens of his favorable presence, and
sent thetn before the fore the lot was caston them, aid afterwards the rendered even that holy place unfit t be the hah,.LORD, at the door of the scape-goat by itself, v. 10. Some think goats itation of the holy God, atonenmentt was hereby
tabernacle of the congre- were chosen for the sin-oflfering, because, their imade, that God, being reconsiled, might congation. disagreeable smell represented the offensiventess tinue with them. 2. He must then do thile same
8 And Aaron shall of sin: others thinik, hecause it was said the de- for the outward part of the tabernacle, by sprinkP cast lots u shal the two mons often appeared to their wvorshippers in the ling the blood of the bullock first, and then of the
P cast lots uponf the tw or a
form of goats, God obliged his people to sacrifice goat, without the veil, where the table and ingoats; one lot fbr te goats, that theymight never be tempted to sacri- cense-altar stood, eight tiimes eachl, as before
[LORD, and the other lot ice to goats. 4. Next he must lkill the bullock The reason iitimated is, because the tabernacle
for the scap)e-goat. for the sin-offering, for himself and his house, v. remained among them in the midst of their
9 And Aaron shall 11. 5. He took a ceniser of burning coals (that uncleanness, v. 16. God would hereby sihow
bring the got q upon would not smoke) in one hand, and a dish fill them, how much their hearts needed to be purifi.,
wich the LORD's lot of the sweet incense in theother, and went into ed, when even the tabernacle, only by standint
wihich the.LoRD's lot tehl foistiog h el etu o
fwtile holt of holies through the veil, went ttp to- in the midst of such an impure and sinfil people,
fel, a offer him for a ward tie ark, set the coals down onil the floor, needed this expiation; and also that even their
sin-offering. and scattered the incense upon them, so that the devotions and religious perforimances had much
10 But the goat on roomn was immediately filled with smoke.' 6. He amiss in them, for which it was necessary atonewhich the lot fell to be then fetched the blood of the bullock, (firom the nieit should be made. During this so'ietnitity,
rthe scape-goat, shall he priest whom lie had left stirring it, that it might none of the intferior priests inust come into the
presente ive before the not thicken, say the Jews,) and took thlat in with tabernacle, (v. 17.) but, by standifig without,
LORD, t mae an him the second time into the holy of hiolies, now must own themselves unworthy and unlfit to minLOID, mto make an filled with the smoke of the incense, and sprin- ister there, because their follies, and defects, and
atonement with him, and kled, with his finger, of that blood upon, or rather manifold impurities in their ministry, had made
to Ilet himin go for a scape- toward, the mercy-seat, once over against the this expiation of the tabernacle necessary. 3. He
goat into the wilderness. top of it, and then seven times towards the low- must then put some of the blood, of the bullock
11 ~ Anrd Aaron shall er part of it, v. 14. But the drops of blood (as and goat, mixed together, on the horns of tihe albring the bullock ofthe the Jews expound it) all fell on tile grountl, and tar before the Lord, v. 18, 19. It is certain tilhe
sin-offelring, whichI is for none touched the mercy-seat. Having done this, altar of incense had this blood put on it, otr so it
he came out of thile most holy place, set the basini is expressly ordered; (Ex. SO30: 10.) but some
himself, and shall make orfblood down in the sanctuary, and went out. think this directs the high priest to the altar of
an atonement for himself, V. 15-19. When the priest was conme out, burnt-offerings, for that also is here called thile aland for his house, and 1. He must next kill thIe goat, the people's sin- tar before the Lord, (v. 12.) because lie is said
shall kill the bullock of offering, (v. 15.) and go the third time into the to go out to it, and because it may be presumed,
the silt-offeriing, which is 13 And he shajl put lock and slrinkle it with Sm. 14:41.42. Prov. 16:33. Ez!~48:29. John' 1:7. Acts 1:'2 —26.
for himself. the incense upon the fire his finger upon the mer- aeb. Az.el..
qActs 2:23. 4:27,28.
12 And he shalltakea before the LORD, that cy-seat eastward: and e. n up
censer fill of burning y the cloud of the in- before the mrcy-seat 2.2.
isn i. 53:10,11. Rom.t4:.5. Heb.?.
coals of -fire vfirom off cense may cover the shall he sprinkle of the 92354. 1 John2:2. i 3,6.
Y ~~~~~~~ ~ ~~~~~~~~~t 14:7. u e on.,6.
the altar before the LORD, mercy-seat that is upon blood with his finger v 10:1. Nurn. 16:18,46. Bieb. 9:14. 1
and his Ihantls fill of the testimony, that he seven times. E. 30:4-.. 7:29. Rev.
seven tim e s. ~~~~x Ex. 301:34 —38. 31:11. 37:29. Rev,,
9sweet incense beaten die- not. [Practical Observations.] 8-3,4.
y Ex.25:21. Heh. 4:14 —16. 7:25. 9:
small, and bring it within 14 And he shall take o 1:3. 4:4. 12:6,7. Matt. 16:21. 24. 1 John 2:1,2.
Rom. 12:1. ~~~~~~ 4;5,6,17. 8:1 1 Rom. 3:24-'26. Hebo
the veil. of the blood of the bul- RoNm. 12:155:4. Josh.:9:7,25. 10:4,0-,19. 2:24.
P Num. 26;55. 33:54. Josh. 18:10,11.:'5 041-2,9
PRACTICAL OBSERVATIONS.
V. 1-14. These varied shadows of good thmings to come lead yet firee firom sin; though He had richer robespf glory and beau
as into almost unavoidiable repetitions: for iti must surely be inex- ty, when angels saw and adored Him n' in the form of God,'as their
cusable to shut our eyes that we may not see, or seeiuig to refrdin Creator and Lord. By the one sacrifice of Himself, He made an
from noting, though repeatedly, these manifold reemembrances of actual atonement for sin on earth; and with the same hunman nasin, as cihargeable on the best of men in their most holy actions; as ture, and with his own blood, He ascentded into heaven, to appear
polluting all things tha - the siinner touches; yet atoned fir by noth- before the Father's mercy-seat, to present the incense of his preing except blood, and nobler blood than that of bulls aind goats. vailing intercession for his people; in which service none, even
Doubtless these are so many demonstrations, that we rightly un- of thIe spiritual priesthood, must presume to inmite with Him
derstand what the N. T. teaches of Christ, when we consider H iim Thence with his spiritual presence He meets his assenlmbled disas the Substance of all these shadows; and his Church the build. ciples, and renders his ordinances sanctitfying to them, and acIng, for which all these scaffoldings were prepared.' Because ceptable to God; and at the end of' the world lie'will come in
tile children were partakers of flesh and blood, He also Himself his own glory, and in the glory of his Father,' to cotmplete tie
likewise took part of tIle same,' and appeared in human nature, grand design. -SCCOTT
Verses 8-10. (8.) Scape goat.] See diff. opin. in Bothart. Spencer, after the oldest
The word rendered the scape-goat,' signifies' the goat which opinions of the Hebrews and Christians, thinks azazel is the name of
Went away.' But the Jews say, the place, to which the goat was led, the devil, anid so Rosenm. whom see. Thie Svr has azzail the' ange,.s intended, and not the goat itself. Probably, however, our transla- (strong onse) who revoltedl.' Eu.
tion is as expressive of thie meaning of the type, as any other for Verses 11-14
which it could be changed. (22. marg.)-Two kids of the goats hav- With these [the coals and the incense] he entered within the veil,
ing been provided as a sin-offering, it was decided by lot, which immediately putting the incense on thie coals [cut, Ex. 25: 29.] and
should be slain, and which should escape. A lot is a solemn appeal causing the stnoke to ascend before the mercy-seat; without which
to God in a doubtfuli matter, relative to practice, as an oath is in tes- le must not have gone thither on pain of death. Hlie then seeinms to
timonies and engagemrnents: and each of them ought to be the last have fetched the blood of his own sin-offering, and to have sprinkled
resource, when other methods of decision fail, and to be used as a it as prescribed: then to have gone forth again, and to have killed
solernn act of religion, or not at all. It is therefore an unanswerable the people's sin-offerings, and, with the blood of them, to have enterobjection to all lotteries and gantes of chance, that they are a profa- ed the third tmne; and to have left the censer, till he had applied the
nation of a reiiciouis ordinance: for so it is every where spoken of in blood to the altar of incense, and then to have eutered the jburth time
5cripture'The lot is cast into the lap, but the whole disposal of it to fetch it away.-All that the Jewish writers have very copiously
is of the Lost:' they are thereftre all appeal to God to decide in a advanced on the manner, in which the services of this day were permatter of covetousness, or of dive:sion; and so form a species of formed, [see Dr..5. Clarke,] can only show how they understood the
taking his namne in vain,' not much unlike rash and profaune swearing Scriptures, which relate to the subject: and in some cases what var
in trifling conversation, or when men are striking bargains. SCOTT. ations, and additions to the divine appointments, they msle, which
Since 1812, in the city of Paris alone, 100 suicides, anneally, have contribute little to oiir edification: for it should be kept in:,ind, that
been occasioned by gamtmhling; certainly this is an argument of Godts what learnmed men extract from them on these subjects, q as written
displeasure, even to thu:se who are uninfluenced by the argument of onng after the temple was finally destroyed by the Re mn-,is, and the
Scott, or blind to the thubmuqtand other ruinous ternporal consequences Mosaic ceremonial thus actually abolished; and mat y co. *iheir asser
of esvery species of gamblimng En tions are directly contrary to the words of time law As the mercy
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