I took your sin... and I cast the dust thereof into the brook. — The stream from the rock in Horeb not only gave Israel drink, but bore away their “sin” upon its waters. “And that Rock was Christ.” This identification of the sin with the material object is in harmony with the Law in Leviticus, where “sin” and “sin-offering” — “trespass” and “trespass offering” — are respectively denoted by a single word.

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