Leviticus 4

Objection 1. (Leviticus 4) Moses according to God's commandment prescribed several sacrifices for several persons; and they were means of satisfaction for the temporal punishments of their daily sins. Answer: Those sacrifices were only signs and types of Christ's satisfaction to…

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…

In the old Law you may read of several degrees and kinds of sins, for which God appointed or measured out differing and proportionable sacrifices. So for sins of ignorance there was one kind of sacrifice (Leviticus 4:2 and 5) and another for sins against knowledge, or such as we…

Here note, that manifest and convicted atheists, if they be put to death, have but their deserts. Example 4. He that curses father or mother shall die the death (Leviticus 4:9). This law is a necessary fence to the fifth commandment, and upholds the honor that is due to parents.

For the beast sacrificed, was so offered, as that bearing the punishment and curse of the sin, it also blotted it out. And the Priests signified so much by the imposition of hands; even as if they had laid upon the beast the sins of the whole people (Leviticus 4:4). And if any p…

According to the number of them all] That is, he offered for each of his sons a sacrifice. There were some sacrifices, which did serve for the whole congregation, as we may see (Leviticus 4:13-14), and in diverse other chapters of that book. Besides these there were personal sac…

But he who is sincere has his inside as his best side. In the law God would have the inwards offered up (Leviticus 4:11). A good Christian gives God the inwards; when he prays his heart prays.

But absolutely does no where in any good author, nor in the scripture signifie a sacrifice for sin unless it may be allowed to do so in this one place alone. For whereas the LXX do render constantly by where it signifies sin; where it denotes an offering for sin, and they retain…