LEVITICUS s1lt I. I2 L goat, as here, and in vert 21, 22. fo that both of them were figures ofChrift, who is the atonement (or propitiation) for our fins, .1 Joh. 2.2. & +.1o. fir a lape goat] or, to Azazel, which is by fonte, thought here to mean the place in the wilder- neffe, where this goat was let oe. Verf. r i. fhall make, atonement layinghis hands on the head of the beali , conteffing and asking pardon of God for his iniquities , trefpaffes and lins,as is beforenoted on v.6. This he was to doe for himfelfe firft,and for his houle: that being re- conciled to God he might be fit (as a figure of Chrift) to .issake atonement for the people. Of this the Hebr. donors fay (fpeaking of the pra- aife in the ages following )) Hee came so bú bullock the fecond time,, and laid both his bands on the head thereof, and confeffd a fecond eenfiffian , for himfelfe, and his houle, and for the fin of Aaron, (all the Priefts)and asked mercie ofGod,and then killed the bnllocke. Maimeny, in tom. bakipp. ç.4.í.1. So elfwhere (in the fame Treatife,c.2. £&) he mets tioneth three eonfefons which the Pried made this day. One which het made for himfelfe at the f ril, a fe- cond which bee made for himfelfe with the other Priers, and bath theft were upon the beello_k of Simae- offring which war fir bimfelfe. And the t ird confiffon was for all Ifrael, upon the Scapegoat. for hie bmsfe] that is, faith Sol. Iarchi , for bio brethren the Priers, for they all are called his boute , as it is written , O houle ofAaron, ble eyee the Lard, Pfal. 235. 19. And all their atonement was not, five for the omcleannef of the Saníluarie, and holy things thereof, of in vert: t6. That he made atonement for the Priers, is ex- preflymentioned, in v.33. Ver. 12 fhall talle a cenfer] after the bullock was killed, before the blood was fprinkled, this fer - vice of burning incenfe, came between, as to pre- pare the way into the holy place , by the cloud the fmoke of tige incenfe upon the Mercie -feat) v 13,14.So Chrilt before he mitred with his own blood into the moltholy place of heaven(Heb.9. 11,12, 24.) prepared and fanctified himfelfe and his way by prayer, (which was figured by in- cenfe, Rev. 8.3,4.) Joh.t 7. Mat.26.36. &c. This Genfeer or Fire pan (as the word is Englifhed in Exod.27.3.) is called in Greeke Pureion, that is, a Fire -vef ll; in the new Teftamgnt never fo named, but Libanotos, an Incenfe.vefeli or Genfer, Rev.8.3,5 where mention is made of,a golden Gen fer . Of this here, the Hebrews fay; Every (other) day, he whafe duty it is to up the Ceufer , ',torah conies in a Cenfr tf ftiver, &e. but this day the high Prier putteth coules in a Cenfer ofgol a Maimony in low. bakipp. c. 2. fe &. 5. before lehovab] this was the burnt- offring al- tar,in the court-yard, where fire alwaics burned: but fromthis manner of fpeech,the Hebrews fay, they tooke the fire from that part of the Altar, which was next to the Wer , (that is, towards the Sanauarie;) Maimory, ibidem. chap. 4. felt. i. So Iambi exponndeth it, frgm that fade (of the outer- altar) which i,o before the doore , and that is the Weft fide, of Incenfe] the making, and fignification hereof,is (hewed on Exodus 3 o.34. &c. It figured the prayers,andmediation of Ghri(t, Pfa. 141.2. beaten -fmall] it was beaten the evening before this day : fee ,the notes on Exodus 3o. 34, 36. This beating of the Incenfe, figured the agonie of Chrift in his prayers beforehis death,which lice offred up with flronq crying andtearer , Luke 22.44. Heb. 5. 7. within the veile] meaning the farad rei /e, (as the Aponte talleth it, Heb. 9. 3.) and fo into the molt holy place: a figure of Heaven it felfe, into which theincenfe ofChrilts prayer and mediation fhould come before God , for his Church, Heb.9.24. Rev.8.3,4. Maim (in lam. ba -. kipper. c. 1. f 7.) telleth how the Sadduees, which were in the daies of the fecond Temple,faid that the Incenfe for atonement day mar to be put upon the fire in the Temple, without the veile ; and reisen the f»ralf thereof afcended, it went into the Holy of holies 5. and their realm war this, besaufe it ie written, in Levit. x6. 2.) I will appeare in the cloud upon the Mercie fat; they fail that wat the cloud of the Incenfe: but. our Wife men (faith he) havetaught , that the Incenfe was not burnt , but in the Holy of holies before the Ark.; ar it is written, (Levit. 1.6. i3.) upon the f3z e before she Lard.And forafmuch as theywere carefull, in the fecond Temple,left the high Pried fhould incline to the Sadduces fide; they did fweare him, in the evening ofAtonement day: the Melfengers of the Synedrion, Paying unto him; We adjure thee by him that bath canted his name to dwell in thír houfe, that thou fbalt not change (or alter) as thing of all that wee doe fay unto thee. Verf. 13. the cloud oltbe Incenfe] that is , as the Greeke tranflateth it, the vapour of the Incenfe. This cloud coveringthe Mercie-feat,figuredthe medi- ation of Chrift by which Gods wrath is turned from his Church; as is after faid that he die not. Compare Rev. 8.3,4. The manner of doing this fervice, they fay was thus; the high Pried woke the Genfeer with fire in hit right hand , and tb. Cup with In- cenfe in his left, &e. and went within the veile, till bee rame at the Arlie : there be put the Cenfir betweene the two barres. And in the frond Temple, where there was no Ark, he put it upon afonethereft,&c. And be filled the palme of his hand with Incenfe , andput it upon the coales in the Center : and flayed there till the houfe was full of fmok, and went out. And he went out backward by little and little, with bin face to the holy place, and his bac tó the Temple, untili he came with- out the veile. Then prayed he there in the Temple, ofier he war come out, but a foam prayer: that the people might not be afraid , and let they fhauldfay , he ii dead in the Temple. Maimony in low. halo p Purim, chap.4. felt. 1. Cbaz(Zmsi here faith, It lo faidbefore (in verf, 2.) In the cloud I will appeare,&c. and to the end that he might not beheld the Majefbie of Gad, as it it written, No man (hall fee me and live, (Exod. 23. 20.) it was necef ay , that he fhtuld ftrff darken the bottle- with in:enf , and after that , he brought the blood in thi- ther. upon] or, over the Tef intone , that is, over the Tables of the Law, which were in the Arke fee Exod.25.16. and 3i. 18. Verf. 14. blood of the bullocks] which was killed for his owne times, verf. 6. r 1. and which had been given (as the. Hebrew Donors write) unto one to kirre the fame. Hence the Apoitle obfer- veth 13
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