Leviticus 16

1. He presents the merit of his blood to his Father, and in the virtue of that price paid, pleads for mercy. The High Priest was in this a lively type of Christ; Aaron was to do four things: 1. Kill the beast; 2. to enter with the blood into the Holy of Holies; 3. to sprinkle th…

We read in the old law, First, None might come into the Holy of Holies where the mercy-seat stood, but the high priest; signifying, we have nothing to do with mercy, but through Christ our high priest. Secondly, the high priest might not come near the mercy-seat without blood (L…

This was kept continually burning, and when a new altar was made fire came from heaven (2 Kings 7:3). The high priest was to take fire from the altar whenever he offered incense (Leviticus 16:12). And therefore when Nadab and Abihu offered common fire of their own kindling (Levi…

I have known many (says Basil) pray and fast, but relieve not such as are in distress; they are for a zeal that puts them to no charges; what are they the better (says he) for all their seeming virtue? We read the incense was to be laid upon the fire. Leviticus 16. 13. The flame…

Eusebius says that Montanus was the first that made laws of fasting. It is objected that there is a set time of fasting prescribed in Leviticus 16:29. Answer: This set and prescribed fast was commanded of God as a part of the legal worship, which had its end in the death of Chri…

4. There is supposed the acceptation of that which intervenes by God, the party offended; and so it presupposes a covenant, whereby the Lord has condescended to accept of that offering. Take it in the sin-offering goat, the scapegoat (Leviticus 16), a living type of Christ, when…

And that which gives us this boldness, is that (as it is Hebrews 4:15-16), we have not a high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities, but was in all points tempted like as we are: then follows, "Let us therefore come boldly to the throne of grace, tha…

Not only has he once for all offered up his sacrifice, as the high priest under the law did once a year, but has entered within the veil to intercede, and thereby to make the benefits of his purchase effectual, and forthcoming to them, for whom his sacrifice was offered. Even as…

James commands not such a confession. Daniel's, Ezra's, Peter's confession were some other thing (John 1:20; Acts 19:18; Hebrews 11:13; Proverbs 28:13; 1 John 4:2; Mark 3:6; Joshua 7:19; Daniel 9:4; Romans 10:10; 1 Timothy 6:13; Psalm 32:5; James 5:16; Leviticus 5:5; Leviticus 1…

The one was done outside, the other within the holy of holies. This you may see in many places, especially Leviticus 16:11–16, where you have the law about the high priest entering into the holy of holies. He was not to come into the holy place until first he had offered a sacri…

When this curse then shall be removed, the Prophet has good cause to affirm that the fathers, with their offspring, shall be freed from fears and distractions, because being in God's favor, they shall be always so secured from fears and dangers, that they shall dwell in safety.…

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…

A being baptized in the name of Christ for the remission of sins, implied faith in Christ for the remission of sins. Repentance for the remission of sins, was typified of old by the priests confessing the sins of the people over the scapegoat, laying his hands on him (Leviticus…

These things being premised, we may consider what was the mind and aim of God in the Institution of this worship. One instance, and that of the most solemn, of the whole kind, will resolve us in this inquiry, Leviticus 16:5. Two Kids of the Goats are taken for an offering for si…

Jacob wrestled with the angel in prayer (Genesis 32:24). The incense was to be laid upon burning coals (Leviticus 16:22). Incense was a type of prayer, and the incense upon coals, was a type of fervency in prayer.

Another thing that the ancient Jews say was wanting in the second temple, was the Shechinah, or cloud of glory over the mercy-seat. This was promised to be in the tabernacle: Leviticus 16:2. "For I will appear in the tabernacle upon the mercy-seat."

There be two words in Isaiah, the one bearing, the other [reconstructed: taking] away, this is also that taking away the sins of the world in St. John (1:29). Which answers to both, and so he, to both the goats (Leviticus 16). He did bear our sins on his cross, and from there to…

What are they the better for all their seeming virtue? We read that the incense was to be laid upon the fire (Leviticus 16:13); the flame of devotion must be perfumed with the incense of charity. Aaron was to have a bell and a pomegranate; the pomegranate, as some of the learned…

'Father' implies faith; 'we cry' implies fervency. The incense was to be laid upon burning coals (Leviticus 16:12); the incense was a type of prayer, the burning coals of ardency in prayer. Elijah prayed earnestly (James 5:17); in the Greek it is 'in praying he prayed' — that is…

But yet this seems not to satisfy. 1. Circumcision, and the ceremonies; and the priesthood (Exodus 40:15), (Leviticus 16:29) the fast in the seventh month, shall be a statute, for ever. (Leviticus 6:18) All the [reconstructed: males] of the sons of Aaron shall eat the remainder…

Therefore in every offering for sin, he that brought it was to put his hand on the head of it, Leviticus 1:4. And that the transferring of the guilt of sin unto the offering, was thereby signified, is expressly declared, Leviticus 16:21. Wherefore if God made the Lord Christ a s…

The scripture plainly declares that faith as Justifying, respects the sacerdotal Office and Actings of Christ alone. In the great Representation of the justification of the church of Old in the Expiatory sacrifice, when all their sins and iniquities were pardoned, and their pers…

He had also a censer filled with fire, that was taken from the altar of burnt offerings, where atonement was made for sin with blood. Upon his actual entrance through the veil, he put the incense on the fire in the censer, until the cloud of its smoke covered the ark and the mer…

Then I asked him what I must do when I came; and he told me I must entreat upon my knees (Psalms 95:6; Daniel 6:10), with all my heart and soul (Jeremiah 29:12-13), the Father to reveal him to me. Then I asked him further, how I must make my supplications to him; and he said, Go…

(Isaiah 53:10) He made his soul an offering for sin. This atonement of blood was typified in Aaron, who (Leviticus 16:20-21) was to lay both his hands on the head of the live-goat, and to confess the sins of the people, and did translate them off from the people; so as the goat…

Moses says to Aaron's sons, (Leviticus 10:17) God has given you the sin offering, to bear the iniquity of the congregation. [in non-Latin alphabet], Aaron and his sons did bear the sins of the people as types of Christ, not by an intrinsical guilt put on them, but by mere imputa…