The Pulpit Commentary — Leviticus — Section 99

mcnt, no remedy. The wor,l•, ah11ll do upon the alt!l.r of God, but be destroyed against any of them, i.•. agniust the oom- with fire outside the camp, typifving the num<lments, would be better rendered shall removal from God's kingdom, 11nd the final do any of them, i.e. the things whioh ought destruction of all the.t is sinful. But yet it not to be done, There is no exact apodosis WBS most holy, as its blood had been taken to this verse; it is a general heading to the into the te.bernaole, e.nd had served as a chapter. propitiation; therefore, if it he.d to be burnt, Vers. 3-12.-Tbe case of the high priest. it yet had to be burnt solemnly, reverently, He is designated the priest that is anointed, and as n ceremonial act, in e. place appointed in respect to which title, ~ee notes on eh. viii. for the purpose. The writer of the Epistle In case he sins in his representative cha- to the Hebrews notices that one of the racter, his sin is such as to bring guilt on points in which our Lord was the antitype the pe,ople (this is the meaning of the words of the sin offering was that be "suffered translated e.ccording to the sin of the people), without the gate," "that he might sanctify nnd a special sin offering must therefore be the people with his own blood" (Heb. xiii. made. He is to take of the blood of the 12), which was thus indicated to have been animal sacrificed, a.nd bring it to the taber- carried within the sanctuary, that is, into nacle of the oongrega.tion : . . . 11nd sprinkle heaven. of the blood senn times before the Lord, Vera. 13-21.-The cBBe of the whole con- before the vail of the sanctuary. And put gregation. A n11Uon may beoome guilty of some of the blood on the horns of the 11ltar national sin in different ways, acoording to of sweet inoense. This was a more solemn its political constitution: most directly, by method of presenting the blood to the Lord the action of a popular Legislature passing 1 han that used in the burnt offering; the e. decree such as that of the Athenian BB- offering of the blood, which was the vehicle eembly, condemning the whole of the Mity- of life, being the chief featnre in the sin lenean people to death (Tbucyd., iii. 36), offering, as the consumption of the whole or by approving 11n act of s11crilege (Mal. iii. animal by the nltar fire was in the burnt 9); indirectly, by any complicity in or con- offering. In the burnt offerings and peace doning of a sin done in its name by its rulers. offerings tl:.e blood was thrown once on the The ritual of the sin offering is the same as altar of burnt sacrifice (see eh. i 5); now in the cl\se of the high priest. The elders of it is sprinkled, in a smaller qu11ntity each the congrege.tion (according to the Targum time, bnt as often as seven times (the num- of Jonathan, twelve in number), a.cling for 1,er seven symbolically representing com- the nation, lay their hands on the victim's pleteness), before the vail which shrouded hea,J, and the high priest, as before, presents the ark. The altar of su,eet incense is the the blood, by sprinkling it seven times before golden altar, which stood within the taber- the Lord, even before the Vllil ; a.nd putting nacle, in front of the vail Perhaps the some of the blood upon the ho:ns of the reason why the horns of the altar are speci- alt11r which is before the Lord, th11t is in the ally appointed to have the blood placed on tabemaole of the congregation. It is added them is the.t they were regarded as the that he shall thus make 11n 11tonement, or most sacred part of the altar, because they covering of sin, for them, IUld it shall be were its Lighest points, in which its eleva- forgiven them. tion tuwards heaven culminated. The re- Vel'I!. 22-26.-Tbe ease ofll ruler or noble- mainder of the victim's blood is to be poured man. The clause, Or if his sin . . . come to e.t the bottom of the llltar of the burnt his knowledge, shonld be rather translated, offering, in the court of the tabeme.cle, to If perhaps his sin eomB to his knowledge. sink into the groUDd, becanse no more of it He is to offer a kid of the go11ts, or rather a was wanted for ceremonial nse. The intemal IM-goat. The blood is not to be carried into fat is to be burnt upon the lllte.r of the burnt the tabernacle, as in the two previous cases, offering, bot not actually upon the smoulder- but put upon the home of the llltar of burnt ing burnt se.crifice, as in the case of the offering, which stood outside in the court, peace offerings; the ein offering preceding and, as a consequence of the blood not the burnt offering in order of time, while having been taken into the tabernacle, the the peace offering followed it. The ro- flesh is not to be burnt outside the camp, me.inder of the animal is to be carried with- but to be eaten by the priests in the court out the camp . . . and be burnt, because its of the tabernacle (see eh. vi. 26). flesh was at once accursed and most holy. Vere. 27-35.-Theoaeeof a common me.u. J t was accul'l!ed, as having been symbolically He is to offer a kid of the goats, or rather a the vehicle of the sins laid upon it by the s!M-goat. The ritue.l is to be the en.me 11.11 in offerer; therefore it must not be CODBWlled the previous case. CH. IV. 1-35.) THE BOOK OF LEVITICUS. /'i5