Exodus 29

Chap. XXIX. Ver. 1—46. with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission. It was, therefore, necessary, that the heavens should he purified with these themselves, wit better sacrifices Persons unaccustomed to read to find so much “shedding of blood,” fices. On this subject, two 1. This was perpetually to nature of sin, and of the necessity of an atonement, in order to patterns of things in the: but the heavenly things than these.” the Scriptures, may be surprise and so numerous sacrior three things may be suggested. remind the Israelites of the nations worshipped, was calculated to guard them against the like idolatry; and th ): 1 more strongly the necessity of such a caution. 3. This profuse shedding of animal blood ( ((Hebrews 9:22). shedding that of man, marked in the strongest manner the God of Israel’s abhorrence of murder, and which in that age were general throughout the heathen world. 4. With respect to the wave-offering and the heave-offering, which are here mentioned, these two parts, the breast and the shoulder, were waved back at this did not always deter them, shows and the strict prohibition against of human. sacrifices, ward and forward, (like a wave of the sea,) and therefore called “a wave-oflering;” or upward and downward, and hence called ‘‘a heave-o ering;” they were not burnt on the altar, but eaten by the priests. Ainsworth says, the breast and shoulder were thus waved backward and forward, to teach the priests that, when consecrated, they should givet hearts and strength.

or Jess distinctly, to that already in heaven, as well time, were to be sanctified and butter. A common sheep of this sort, without the head, feet, skin, and entrails. Lastly, all these sacrifices pointed, more “better sacrifice,” by which those as those on earth, even to the end of saved. This was particularly 1, 29. fone of God, who taketh away the sins of the world. (John On the consecration of Aaron and his sons we may farther remark, 1. The manner of consecration, by pouring on their heads the holy anointing oil, as representing the influences of the Holy Spirit, in all cases necessary to the proper fulfilment of the priestly office; and, 2. As pointing specially to him whom God “anointed with the Holy Ghost without measure, and who went about continually doing good.”

((Acts 10:38),; (John 3:34).) 3. We see here an open recognition of the doctrine of imputation; that is, of the guilt of the sinner to the sacrifice, on which is evidently founded the doctrine of atonement by the death of Christ, who bore our sins in his own body on the cross. * My soul would lay her hand On that dear head of thine While like a penitent I stand, And there confess my sin.”— Watts.

Notes on the verses

Chap. XXIX. Ver. 10, Shall put their hands upon the head of the bulwore to come to tho lock.—See (Leviticus 16)a. Ver. 20. Tip of the right ear.—( All this was probably intended to signify, that thepriest should dedicate all his faculties and powers to the service of God: hisear to the hearing and study of the law: his hands, to diligence in the to all acts of obedience; and his feet. to walking in the encred ministry, and way of God’s precepts: for the ear is the symbol of obedience, the hand of ction, and the foot of the path or conduct in life. And the sprinkling might arther teach him, that he could neither hear, work, nor walk rightly, and well pleasingly in the sight of God, without the app blood of the sacrifice.

]}—Bagster. ‘ Ver, 22. Therump, or tail, of some of the Eastern sheep is very large, (weighing according to Ludolf, from 12 to 40 Ib.) and is accounted a great delicacy.—See Orient. Cust. No. 47.—{ This tail,” says Dr, Russell, is very broud and large, terminating in a small appendix that turns back upon it. It is of a substance between fat and marrow, and is not eaten separately, but. mixed with lean meat in many of their dishes, and also often used instead of weighs about twelve or fourteen Aleppo rotoloes (a rotoloe is five pounds,) of which the tail is usually three rotoloes or upwards; but such as are of the largest breed, and have been fattened, will sometimes weigh above thirty rotoloes, and the tails of these ten.”

]—Bagsier. ‘ Ver. 27. Ram of consecration.—| Ail milluim, literally, ‘* the ram of filling;’’ so called, according to some, because, at the consecration of the priests, rofitably, upication of the certain pieces of the sacrifice were put into their hands, (ver. 24.) on which account their consecration itself is called ** filling their hands.” (ch. xxviii. 41.) Rabbi Solomon gives a different reason for the ram being so called, from malai, to be full, complete; because the sacrifice com pleted the consecration, and thereupon the priests were fully invested in their office. }—Bagster. Ver. 37, Whatsoever toucheth the altar shall be holy.—That is, wholly devoted to sacred uses, See (Matthew 23:19).

| Ver. 40. A tenth deal af flour.—Deal signifies Por é \ e. the tenth part of an ephah. which is an omer, or about three quarts English.——T he fourth part of a hin.—That is, little more than a quart.—Dr. Clarke,-——A drink-affering. See (Leviticus 7:1), &e.