For every meat offering for the priest shall be wholly burnt: it shall not be eaten.
Leviticus 6:23 belongs to the instruction on the five kinds of offerings — burnt, meal, peace, sin, and trespass — and shows the purpose and manner of the meal offering within the section describing the different kinds of sacrifices. That section has typological significance concerning the work of Jesus Christ. The verse belongs to the special instructions in Leviticus 1-7 regulating the priesthood of the tribe of Levi, concerning the particular offerings presented by burdened individuals during the year as an expression of faith in the Redeemer to come.
Leviticus 6 belongs to the ceremonial law, a set of sacrificial regulations instituted in consequence of sin and distinguished from the moral law. That work was part of the daily service and first general ministry connected with the earthly sanctuary built by Moses in the wilderness by divine appointment for the worship of the true God, performed in the holy place by the Levitical priesthood, with the sanctuary later giving way to the temple. Leviticus 1 to 7 describe the main features of that service. Leviticus 1-16 together set forth the complete round of service performed every year in that typical sanctuary.
The chapters prescribing offerings for individual sins teach transfer of sin in figure to the sanctuary, for when the blood was not brought into the sanctuary the offering's flesh was eaten in the holy place, and every offering made in faith transferred the penitent's sins through the blood of the sacrifice or the person of the priest. When the priest sprinkled the blood upon the altar before the ark he left there in figure the forgiven sins of the people of God, and this transferring work went on through the year until the cleansing of the sanctuary on the tenth day of the seventh month completed the yearly round. The verse gives the specific rule that every meal offering for the priest shall be wholly burned and shall not be eaten, a particular requirement left without further explanation. As part of those offerings the verse shows God's hatred of sin and how sin demanded its penalty.
Each detail of the laws of sacrifices and offerings had meaning and finds its fuller meaning in the sacrifice, life, and work of Jesus Christ, as example, shadow, pattern, and type of his more excellent ministry in the true tabernacle and heavenly sanctuary as High Priest and Minister, begun when he ascended on high. Each year's round typifies the service of Christ, which was once for all and covers his entire priesthood. The passage is profitable for doctrine, reproof, correction, and instruction in righteousness to make the man of God perfect, and was written for learning to give hope through patience and comfort of the Scriptures, so that study of it as an object-lesson of the heavenly temple and Christ's priestly service gives enlightenment concerning God's way, power, glory, and dealings with men and clearer views of the Saviour and his work for men.
Leviticus 6:23 belongs to the instruction on the five kinds of offerings — burnt, meal, peace, sin, and trespass — and shows the purpose and manner of the meal offering within the section describing the different kinds of sacrifices. That section has typological significance concerning the work of Jesus Christ. The verse belongs to the special instructions in Leviticus 1-7 regulating the priesthood of the tribe of Levi, concerning the particular offerings presented by burdened individuals during the year as an expression of faith in the Redeemer to come.
Leviticus 6 belongs to the ceremonial law, a set of sacrificial regulations instituted in consequence of sin and distinguished from the moral law. That work was part of the daily service and first general ministry connected with the earthly sanctuary built by Moses in the wilderness by divine appointment for the worship of the true God, performed in the holy place by the Levitical priesthood, with the sanctuary later giving way to the temple. Leviticus 1 to 7 describe the main features of that service. Leviticus 1-16 together set forth the complete round of service performed every year in that typical sanctuary.
The chapters prescribing offerings for individual sins teach transfer of sin in figure to the sanctuary, for when the blood was not brought into the sanctuary the offering's flesh was eaten in the holy place, and every offering made in faith transferred the penitent's sins through the blood of the sacrifice or the person of the priest. When the priest sprinkled the blood upon the altar before the ark he left there in figure the forgiven sins of the people of God, and this transferring work went on through the year until the cleansing of the sanctuary on the tenth day of the seventh month completed the yearly round. The verse gives the specific rule that every meal offering for the priest shall be wholly burned and shall not be eaten, a particular requirement left without further explanation. As part of those offerings the verse shows God's hatred of sin and how sin demanded its penalty.
Each detail of the laws of sacrifices and offerings had meaning and finds its fuller meaning in the sacrifice, life, and work of Jesus Christ, as example, shadow, pattern, and type of his more excellent ministry in the true tabernacle and heavenly sanctuary as High Priest and Minister, begun when he ascended on high. Each year's round typifies the service of Christ, which was once for all and covers his entire priesthood. The passage is profitable for doctrine, reproof, correction, and instruction in righteousness to make the man of God perfect, and was written for learning to give hope through patience and comfort of the Scriptures, so that study of it as an object-lesson of the heavenly temple and Christ's priestly service gives enlightenment concerning God's way, power, glory, and dealings with men and clearer views of the Saviour and his work for men.