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ing of this kind was intended, the whole ministration was a
farce. After thus confessing his sin and transferring it to
the offering, it remained that the animal be slain on account
of that imputed sin. This the sinner did with his own
hand, thus making the most striking confession possible in
his case that he was worthy of death. The work now passed
to the priest. He took the blood, and in case of the sinoffering,
which was the first one in the order of offerings
to be presented by the sinner, he bore the blood into the
sanctuary, and approaching as near to the ark containing
the law as it was possible for him to do in the daily ministration,
that is to the vail which divided the holy from
the most holy place, he sprinkled of that blood seven times
before the vail. p. 89, Para. 3, [LOOKING].
As the blood is the life (Lev. 17:11), and in that life
was the guilt, the presence of the blood in the sanctuary
was evidence that the life had been taken, and that in that
blood the sin had been lodged in the sanctuary itself. It
was not the case that the blood of all the different offerings
was thus borne within the building of the sanctuary,
but those which were so treated, stood as representatives
of the whole. But in every case the priest had a ministry
to perform with the blood. The receptacle of the blood he
took into his own hands, and whatever he did with it,
whether he bore it into the sanctuary and sprinkled it before
the vail, or whether he sprinkled it on the altar of
burnt offering, or put it upon the horns of the altar, or
poured it into the dust at the foot of the altar, it was
all equally an evidence that the sins of the offerers had
passed from themselves into the custody of the ministration
connected with the sanctuary, and were thus lodged in the
sanctuary itself. p. 89, Para. 4, [LOOKING].
(2) J. A. Alexander, D.D. p. 89, Para. 5, [LOOKING].
In this manner the service went forward through the year.
Day after day, week after week, month after month, we behold
this round of service performed, the victims coming in
solemn procession to the sanctuary, the work of confession
going on, the crimson tide of expiation flowing, and the
solemn-visaged priests in ceaseless service sprinkling this
token of forfeited life before the broken law. There was
thus a continual transfer of sins from the people to the
offerings and through them to the sanctuary, through the
year. What became of these sins? Perhaps the queries may
arise, Why need anything further be done with them? p. 90,