Exodus 29

Sin drops poison on our holy things, it infects our prayers. The High Priest was to make atonement for sin on the altar (Exodus 29:36), to signify that our holiest services need Christ to make atonement for them. Duties of religion in themselves are good, but sin corrupts them,…

Answer: Because faith eyes Christ in every duty, and so both the person and offering are accepted. The high priest under the law laid his hand upon the head of the beast slain, which did point to the Messiah (Exodus 29:10). So faith in every duty lays its hand upon the head of C…

The Virgin Mary's obedience was not perfect; she needed Christ's blood to wash her tears. Aaron was to make atonement for the altar (Exodus 29:37), to show that the most holy offering has defilement in it, and needs atonement to be made for it. Question 1. But if man has not pow…

The reason of the diversity is, because the same word in the original, which signifies the second person masculine, you, meaning the Father; signifies the third person feminine: his soul shall make itself; but on the matter, whether we apply it to the Father, or to Christ, both…

2. That there be some appointed to offer the sacrifice; that there be some set apart for that very thing. 3. That there be a killing, or destroying, of the thing that is offered in a sacrifice; which especially in the sin-offering was necessary; to wit, that it should be killed,…

In the old Testament, when a man had sinned, he brought a sheepe or an oxe to the doore of the Tabernacle, and when the Priest cut the throat of it, the partie laid his hand upon the head of it. Exod 29:10. And hereby he signified, that the beast had done no hurt, and that he as…

Answer. Even because he sustained our person and cause: for there was nothing at all that could satisfy God's justice, but the death of his only begotten Son. The word Asham, signifies sin, and oblation for sin; and so oftentimes it is found in the latter signification in the Sc…

The Prophet then expresses three things here distinctly. For first when he says, that the sacrifices went up, he alludes to the ceremony which in old time they used in the sacrifices, for they lifted up their offerings (Exodus 29:24; Leviticus 8:29), to signify, that they were t…

It would have been more correct to say that the noun נזר signifies a crown than a flower. "Thou shalt put the holy crown," את נזר הקדש, (Exodus 29:6.) "Thou hast profaned his crown," נזרו, (Psalm 89:39.)

When he says, that it was not lawful to eat that bread but for the priests alone, we must understand him to refer to the ordinary law: they shall eat those things wherewith the atonement was made, to consecrate and to sanctify them; but a stranger shall not eat thereof, because…

For this reason the apostle, in the Epistle to the Hebrews, (13:12,) refers it to an ancient figure of the law. For as God commanded his people to burn without the camp the bodies of those animals, the blood of which was carried into the sanctuary to make atonement for sins, (Ex…

Sleepy duties are utterly unsuitable to the living God; he will have the very spirits distilled and offered up to him in every duty (John 4:24). He bestows upon his people the very substance and kernel of mercies, and will not accept from them the shells and shadows of duties; n…

We are not accepted through our duties, but through the Beloved; faith looks at the merit of Christ to take away the guilt, and the Spirit of Christ to take away the filth which cleaves to the most angelical services, thus it procures acceptance. The high priest under the law lo…

And therefore Calvin solidly observes that Paul in 2 Corinthians 3 speaks with less respect of the Law than the Prophets do, for their cause, who out of a vain affectation of the Law-ceremonies gave too much to the Law and darkened the Gospel, and says the one was: 1. literal; 2…

Sometimes it declares by the punishments already extended, that God is a judge, that sinners should think to themselves, that worse things hang over them if they do not repent in time. You have an example thereof in Exodus 29. But because the turning begins at the abhorring and…