;; 246 The Gofpel of the S n-Qfering. the other. But this is a Notion that hath no footing in the Text. The true Difference between them conlffs, as I conceive, in this, That the Sin-Offering was for Sins ofIgnorance and Infirmity ; but the TrefpafsOffering did extend even to Sins againft Knowledge. The Reafons for this, are partly from the Propriety of the Hebrew Words, and partly from force ExpreJfìons in the Text. The Hebrew Word for the Sin-Offering is Chattaah, from chatas peccare, which properly fignifles to coifs the Mark a Man 'boots at. Proprie eft errare, vel aberrare a Scopo. Buxtorf. So Yudg. 20. 16. the fevenhundred chofen Men of Benjamin it is faid, they could flingStones at an Hairs- breadth and not mifs Velo ja le nec aberrabat, and not Sin, that is, mifs of the Scope and Mark they intended and propofed to themfelves. Hence God is faid to reduce Sinners, that is, fuch as go affray and mifs their Way, into the way again, Pfal. 25. 8. Good and upright is the Lord, therefore will he teach Sinners in the way. In the Conjugation Pihel, it liignifies to purge and cleanfe from Sin, by ma- king Satisfadion and undergoing the Penalty due to it. As Exod. 29. 37. and thou (halt cleanfe the Altar, ve chittetha yal harnisbeach---- Lev: 14. 52. he (hall cleanfe the Floufe, vechitte eth habajith, Gen. 31. 39. Jacob faith to Laban, that which is torn of Beafts I brought not unto thee, I bare the Lofs of it. Andki achattinah, ego expiabam illud, Arias Montanus, I expiated it. Peenas luebam pro eo, fo Pain. Bnx- torf. I fuffered for it. Thus you fee the proper importance of the Word here ufed and tranflated, the Sin-Offering, Chattaah. Moreover the Text faith upon the Sin -Offering, That if a Soul err and mils it thus, Bi!hgagah, through Error or Ignorance, which fur- ther clears up the true Senfe. Pfal. 119.67. Before I was of iaed I went a(tray ; it is the fame Word ani fhogeg, ego errans. But the Word which is ufed for the TrefpafsOffering, Afham, tho' it is ufed for Sin in general, yet it feems to imply in a more fpeci- al Senfe, Sins of an higher Nature, fuch as are committed with more Deliberation, or with more confent of Will, or againft more Light, or with lefs of Temptation, or more of Injury unto others, Sins of a more grievous and heinous Nature; For the fame Word lignifies alfo Defolation and laying Waite, Ifa. 2,4.. 6. therefore bath the Curti devoured the Earth, and they that dwell therein are defolate, vajefhmn. And in the fame Senfe is this Word ufed elfewhere, e.g. Pfal. 5. io. deftroy themO God, derolato eos tanquam reo:, Buxtorf. Moreover there be Inftances given in the Trefpafs ;Offering, of grofs.Sins againft Light and Knowledge, Confcience-wafting, Soul- defolating Sins, as lying, cheating, perjury, Cap. 6. 2, 3. And we may therefore render 4fham, The piaculum.
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