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LOOKING UNTO JESUS OR CHRIST IN TYPE AND ANTITYPE. BY ...

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Azazel is employed as the name of the Evil Spirit. In addition<br />

to these we have the evidence of the Jewish work Zohar,<br />

and of the Cabalistic and Rabbinical writers. They<br />

tell us that the following proverb was current among the<br />

Jews: 'On the day of atonement, a gift to Samuel.' Hence<br />

Moses Gerundinensis feels called to say that it is not a<br />

sacrifice, but only done because commanded by God. p. 260,<br />

Para. 4, [<strong>LOOK<strong>IN</strong>G</strong>].<br />

"Another step in the evidence is when we find this same<br />

opinion passing from the Jewish to the early Christian<br />

church. Origen was the most learned of the Fathers, and on<br />

such a point as this, Origen: 'He who is called in the Septuagint<br />

, and in the Hebrew Azazel, is no other than the<br />

devil.' p. 261, Para. 1, [<strong>LOOK<strong>IN</strong>G</strong>].<br />

"In view then of the difficulties attending any other<br />

meaning, and the accumulated evidence in favor of this,<br />

Hengstenberg affirms with great confidence that Azazel cannot<br />

be anything else but another name for Satan." (1) p.<br />

261, Para. 2, [<strong>LOOK<strong>IN</strong>G</strong>].<br />

On page 70, Mr. Beecher further says: "The meaning of the<br />

term [scapegoat] viewed as a proper name, was stated, in<br />

1677, by Spencer, Dean of Ely, to be powerful Apostate, or<br />

mighty Receder." Professor Bush is also quoted on page 72,<br />

as regarding Azazel as a proper name of Satan. p. 261,<br />

Para. 3, [<strong>LOOK<strong>IN</strong>G</strong>].<br />

It is but just to Mr. Beecher to remark that while he<br />

thinks that Azazel is the name for Satan, he does not regard<br />

the goat as representing Satan, but looks upon the<br />

ceremony as performed in some sense in reference to Satan.<br />

This he thinks implied in the words engraved on the lots<br />

which the high priest drew for the goats on the day of<br />

atonement; one, La-Yehovah, for Jehovah, the other La-<br />

Azazel, for Azazel, for the Devil; and he takes the transaction<br />

to signify that subjection of Christ to Satan which<br />

is implied in the sentence that the serpent should bruise<br />

the heel of the seed of the woman. But as this was done at<br />

the crucifixion, it can have no reference to the ceremony<br />

of the scapegoat, a ceremony not performed till the work in<br />

the sanctuary is finished. And inasmuch as the goat upon<br />

which the lot fell for the Lord, typified Christ himself,<br />

so the goat upon which the lot fell for Azazel, would typify<br />

Azazel, or Satan himself. p. 261, Para. 4, [<strong>LOOK<strong>IN</strong>G</strong>].

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