And if he bring a lamb for a sin offering, he shall bring it a female without blemish.
This law of the female lamb without blemish belongs to the sin offering for a ruler or for one of the people. It shows the daily ministration in the holy place for a common sinner. The repentant sinner brought the lamb to the door of the tabernacle, laid the hand upon the victim's head, and confessed the sins, transferring them in figure from the sinner to the innocent sacrifice. The animal was then slain because the broken law demanded the life of the transgressor, and without shedding of blood there is no remission of sin.
In this case the blood was not carried into the holy place to be sprinkled before the veil and placed on the horns of the golden altar, unlike the offering for a priest or for the whole congregation. Those who held the other teaching held that in this case the blood, representing the forfeited life of the sinner whose guilt the victim bore, was carried by the priest into the holy place and sprinkled before the veil behind which was the ark containing the law that had been transgressed. By that blood ceremony the sin was through the blood transferred in figure to the sanctuary.
The flesh was to be eaten by the officiating priest in a holy place in the court of the tent of meeting. When the blood was not taken into the holy place, the eating of the flesh by the priest likewise symbolized the transfer of the sin from the penitent to the sanctuary by bearing the iniquity of the congregation. The verse shows one of the sin-offerings God required as a return to him under the Levitical dispensation, which was distinguished by the sanctification of property, and the requirement included not the tithe alone but sin-offerings and thank-offerings with trespass-offerings, sacrificial offerings, ransom for the firstborn, firstfruits of flocks and harvest, corners and droppings left for the poor, spontaneous increase of the land every seventh year for the needy, and remission of debts every seventh year, so that in almost every article Israel was reminded of the Giver.
The amount required was proportioned to the amount bestowed, so the larger the capital entrusted the more valuable the gift required to be returned, with the conscientious returning about one-third of all income for religious interests and for the poor. The same claim rests on Christians, so one with ten or twenty thousand dollars must give a proportion according to the tithing system and also present sin-offerings and thank-offerings to God.
This law of the female lamb without blemish belongs to the sin offering for a ruler or for one of the people. It shows the daily ministration in the holy place for a common sinner. The repentant sinner brought the lamb to the door of the tabernacle, laid the hand upon the victim's head, and confessed the sins, transferring them in figure from the sinner to the innocent sacrifice. The animal was then slain because the broken law demanded the life of the transgressor, and without shedding of blood there is no remission of sin.
In this case the blood was not carried into the holy place to be sprinkled before the veil and placed on the horns of the golden altar, unlike the offering for a priest or for the whole congregation. Those who held the other teaching held that in this case the blood, representing the forfeited life of the sinner whose guilt the victim bore, was carried by the priest into the holy place and sprinkled before the veil behind which was the ark containing the law that had been transgressed. By that blood ceremony the sin was through the blood transferred in figure to the sanctuary.
The flesh was to be eaten by the officiating priest in a holy place in the court of the tent of meeting. When the blood was not taken into the holy place, the eating of the flesh by the priest likewise symbolized the transfer of the sin from the penitent to the sanctuary by bearing the iniquity of the congregation. The verse shows one of the sin-offerings God required as a return to him under the Levitical dispensation, which was distinguished by the sanctification of property, and the requirement included not the tithe alone but sin-offerings and thank-offerings with trespass-offerings, sacrificial offerings, ransom for the firstborn, firstfruits of flocks and harvest, corners and droppings left for the poor, spontaneous increase of the land every seventh year for the needy, and remission of debts every seventh year, so that in almost every article Israel was reminded of the Giver.
The amount required was proportioned to the amount bestowed, so the larger the capital entrusted the more valuable the gift required to be returned, with the conscientious returning about one-third of all income for religious interests and for the poor. The same claim rests on Christians, so one with ten or twenty thousand dollars must give a proportion according to the tithing system and also present sin-offerings and thank-offerings to God.