Then he went book into the tabernacle of fast beg11n on the evening of the ninth day, the congregation (not into the holy of holiee), and ended on the evening of the tenth, when nnd, ns all the special atoning and purifying it wns succeeded by general feasting. During services of the de.y were now over, he there the whole of the twenty-four hours no work took off hie linen dress, e.nd put it nway; at all was to be done. In this respect nnd after bnthiog in the holy place, that is, the Day of Atonement we.s put on a level in tbe.t po.rt of the sanctuary set apart for with the sabbath, whereas on the annual that purpose, be put on his ordinary high- festivals only "servile work" was forbidden priestly garments, and sacrificed first e. gont (see eh. xxiii. 7, 21, 25, 35). On this day, for e. ein offering (Numb. xxix. 16), next therefore, as on the weekly sabbath, it his own burnt offering of e. ram, e.od then we.a not permitted to collect manna (Exod. the burnt offering ot the people, which wa.s xvi. 26), or to plough or reap (Exod. xxxiv. also e. ro.m and other victims (Ibid.). 21), or to light a firo (Exod. xxxv. 3), or to Ver. 25.-After the flesh of the burnt gather wood !Numb. XT. 32-36), or to sacrifice hnd been placed in order on the carry corn or fruit (N eh. xiii 15), or to e.lte.r, the fat of the Bill offering, that is, of sell food or other goods (N eh. xiii. 16), or the bullock (ver. 6) and of the goo.t (ver. 15) to hear burdens (Jer. xvii. 22, 23), or to set and of the other goat (Numb. :u:ix. 16), is out grain for sale (Amos 'l"iii. 5). And these placed upon it, and burnt upon the alta.r, regulations applied to strangers that so- according to the regular practice. journed among them e.s well e.s to them- Ver. 26.-The man that let go the goat selves. It wns a se.bbath of rest; literally, a which served for e. remover of sins is to 1abbath of sabbatism. The purpose of the wash his olothes, and bathe his flesh before abstinence from food and lo.hour was to he oomes into the oamp. This is not ordered bring the soul of each individual into on account of any epeoial defilement attach- harmony with the solemn rites of purifica- ing to the ece.pegoo.t, but only becnuse it tion publicly performed not by themselves, ho.d been the eymbolico.l sin-bearer, nnd but by the high priest. therefore conveyed legal uncleanness by its Vera. 32, 33.-Thnt there mo.y be no touch. The man who bore the flesh of the mistake, it is specifico.lly enjoined that not other goat to be burnt ho.d to do exo.otly the only Aaron, but the priest, whom he shall so.me thing (ver. 28). anoint, and whom he shall oonseorate-mean- Vers. 27, 28.-As the blood of the bullock ing, the high priest that shall btl anointed, and the goo.t which had been offered in the and shall be consecrated-to minister in the speoial expiatory so.crifl.ces of the dny had prie■t's 016.oe in his father's ltead-tho.t is, to been cnrried within the se.notuo.ry (vers. 14, suoceed from time to time to the high 15), their bodies hnd to be burnt without priesthood-llhall mo.ke the atonement, and the onmp (eh. iv. 12). Our Lord being the llhall put on the linen clothes, even the holy antitype, not only of Aaron ns the Great garments. Ago.in it may be noticed that High Priest, but also of the expiatory so.ori- the white robes are termed, not the peniten- fices ns the Great Sin Offering, the author tial, but the holy, garments. of the Epistle to the Hebrews notices tho.t Ver. 34.-This shall be an everlasting the foot of Christ's having "suffered without statute unto you. It Iosted as long os the tho camp" serves os an iodicntion that his enrthly Jerusnlem lasted, and until tile blood ho.d in its ntoning effects been carried heavenly Jerusnlom was instituted, when it by him into heaven, the anti type of the holy had a spiritunl fulfilment once for all. "Of of holies (Heb. xiii. 12). The flesh of the old there was nn high priest tho.t clennsed other goo.t, offered as a sin offering, would the people with the blood of bulls and goo.ta, have been enten by the priests in the but now thnt tho true High Priest is come, evening, at a so.orifioial meo.l (eh. x. 17, 18). the former priesthood is no more. It is e. Vera. 29-31.-The ceremonies of the providontio.l dispensation of God tho.t the Day of Atonement are not appointed for city nod temple of Jorueo.lem have been once only, but they are to be of annual destroyed; for if they were still standing, observance. This llhall be a ■tatute for ever some who are weo.k in faith might be dazzled unto you, a.a long as the nation should exist, by tho outward fpleodour of tho literal that in the seventh month, on the tenth do.y types, and not drawn by faith to the spiritual of the month, ye llhall e.11liot your souls, and antitypee. If there are any, therefore, who, do no work at all. 'rhe seventh ui the in considering the Levitical ritunl of the mcred month, in which the first, the tenth, greo.t Do.y of Atonement, and in looking o.t the fifteenth, and following days are ap- the two he-goats-the ono so.crifice,l, the pointed ns holy see.sons. The Day of Afone- other let go, charge<l with sine, into the ment is the single fast of the Jewish Church wilderness-do not recognize the one Christ occurring once a year only. On it all the who died for our sins e.nd took e.wny our members of that Churoh were to a.ffl,ict tneir sine, and do not see there the • everle.sting ,oul,, on pain of doo.th (eh. :uiii. 29). The statute' of which God here speaks bJ 244 THE BOOK OF LEVITICUS. [OH, XVI, 1-34,
llloeee, let him go op thrice a year to Jeru- offered himself onoe for all, and who ever salem, and there sea.rob for the altar which Iiveth to make intercession for us" (Origen, has crumbled in the dust, and offer up his ' Hom.' x., as quoted by Wordsworth). And victims there without a priest. But no; he did as the Lord oommanded llloae■ ; that thanks be to God, the earthly priesthood is. Moses announced to Aaron the Law and temple are abolished, that we may which was to be carried out abou~ five raise our heart to the heavenly, and look months later. op with faith and love and joy to him who