CONTENTS In pursuing the order of appointments, under the Levitical dispensation, this Chapter contains the account of the institution of peace-offerings; which are to be taken from the herd, a bullock or an heifer; or from the flock, either a lamb, or a goat. Leviticus 3:1 Is not the peace, whic... [ Continue Reading ]
Observe, the laying on of the hand upon the head of the offering. What could more strikingly represent the transfer of sin? And is not this transfer made of sin to the person of CHRIST? Compare Leviticus 6:21 with 2 Corinthians 5:21; Isaiah 53:7.... [ Continue Reading ]
Perhaps the significance of those things, in the inward fat, meaning the prime parts of the animal, was meant to show that all offerings to the LORD must be from the heart, including the best of our affections. Proverbs 23:26.... [ Continue Reading ]
Reader! look at JESUS. Heb 9:14; 1 Peter 1:19.... [ Continue Reading ]
Observe again, the laying on of the hand, by way of acknowledging the transfer of sin. Hosea 14:1.... [ Continue Reading ]
As the tails of the sheep are very large and fat, in those eastern countries, and were considered as a very choice part of the animal, they were ordered to be sacrificed on the altar. Exodus 29:22.... [ Continue Reading ]
Much the same observations meet us here as before. See Romans 8:3.... [ Continue Reading ]
Reader! observe again, the order of laying on of the hand. So very important is the doctrine couched under it. Dearest JESUS! may I find grace to lay my hand by faith upon thy head, and while I confess my sins, may I rejoice that thou hast borne my sins, in thine own body on the tree! Daniel 9:24.... [ Continue Reading ]
The same observations meet us in those verses, as in Leviticus 3:3.Genesis 41:32.... [ Continue Reading ]
Observe the solemn injunction respecting the blood. No doubt in honour to the blood of CHRIST, by which alone atonement is made for sin. And through the whole Levitical dispensation this is strictly attended to. Genesis 9:4; 1 Samuel 14:32;, compared with Ephesians 1:7. Hence the heathen worship is... [ Continue Reading ]