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“ heave-offerings ;” under which kind the "53M, or “ wave-offerings,” also were comprised. Concerning these, because the handling of them is not without its difficulties, being diffused in their use throughout the whole worship of God, and that some things not vulgarly known might have been declared concerning them, I thought to have treated at large; but whereas they are not directly referred unto by our apostle in this Epistle, and these discourses being increased much beyond my first design, I shall here wholly omit all further disqui- sition about them.
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sinned or trespassed should bring his DUS (“his trespass-offering”) “unto the Lorp, for his sin which he had sinned, a female from the flock, or a kid of the goats, NS81?,”—“ for a sin-offering.” Some think that there was a difference between them, and that it lay in this, that the chataath respected sins of omission, and the asham, sins of commission. But that this will not hold is openly evident in the text. Some think that whereas in both these offerings there was respect unto ignorance, that in the chataath was juris, of the right or law, that in the asham was facti, of the particular fact. But this opinion also may be easily disproved from the context. This to me seems to be the principal, if not the only difference be- tween them, that the asham provided a sacrifice in some particular instances, which seem not to be comprised under the general rules of the sin-offering. And hence in a peculiar manner it is said of Jesus Christ, that he should give iw) DYX, “his soul an asham,” or “ piacular sacrifice,” as for all, so for such delinquencies and sins as seem to bring a destroying guilt on the soul, Isa. li. 10. And _ this kind of offering also was DWI2 YIP, “most holy,” Lev. vi. 23.
44, The last sort of fire-offerings were the 08, which are reckoned as a distinct species of sacrifices, Lev. vil..387,—that is, “plenitudinum, impletionum, consecrationum,” “ sacrifices of conse- eration,” or that were instituted to be observed at the consecration of priests. Its name it seems to have taken from the filling of their hands, or their bringing their offering in their hands, when they approached unto the Lord in their setting apart unto office. And thence was the expression of him that came to be consecrated a priest ; 7B2 12 NbD> 83D, 2 Chron. xiii. 9;—“He that came to fili his hand with a bullock.” The rise of this expression we have marked before on Exod. xxviii. 41. The Lord giving directions unto Moses for the consecration of Aaron and his sons, he tells him, Dns nb —“ Thou shalt fill their hand;” that is, put the flesh of the sacrifice, with the bread and its appurtenances, into their hands, which, being the initiating ceremony of their investiture with office, gave name afterwards unto the whole. And hence the sacri- fices appointed then to be offered, although they differed not in kind from those foregoing, yet are accounted to be a distinct offering, and are called 5°83?!, or “ fillings.”
And this may suffice as a brief account of the fire-offerings of the law of Moses, in whose use and end we are fully instructed in this Epistle to the Hebrews.
45, There was yet a second sort of corbans, or offerings unto God, under the law, which were of things, or parts of things, not burned on the altar, but one way or other devoted or consecrated to God and his service. These were the NiONA, “ terumoth;” which we have rendered sometimes “offerings” in general, and sometimes
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“heave-offerings;” under which kind the 537, or “wave-offerings,” also were comprised. Concerning these, because the handling of them is not without its difficulties, being diffused in their use throughout the whole worship of God, and that some things not vulearly known might have been declared concerning them, I thought to have treated at large; but whereas they are not directly referred unto by our apostle in this Epistle, and these discourses being increased much beyond my first design, I shall here wholly omit all further disqui- sition about them.
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