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SACRIFICE
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14.8. cp Dt.248 Nu.19). Solemn public pioruia,
1,o,ierer, seem in earlier timer to have been performed
onir on occasions when rame calatnitv warned the
people that they had offended GO^ (e.g', 2 S. 24,af;
above, # 18. SO). In the Persian period, they became
an estahllrhed institution. We have seen that Ezekiel
provides for such ceremonirr at the beginnillg of each
half )ear (above. § 21); the oldest stratum of P in Lev.
16 seemi to have had in mind n yearly expiation : I the
nay of Atonement \\.as in later times the most solemn
of the year. 811 riter of consecration and inauguration
are begun by piacular sacrifices. Not infrequently, as
in Ezekiel, the \.hole coltos is regarded ns expiatory.
The prernlence of such u conception of God's holiness
as we find in Ezekiel, inevitably led to the multiplication
of expiatory rites ; the dspii,sred and unhappy state of
the Jews in i'nlertine during n large part of these
ceilturies may be rrgirdcd as a contrillutory cause.
The differences between the sacrificial worshio of 1
old Israel and that, say, of NT times mur not.
however. be exaggerated. The public cultur did not
suoersede nrivate sacrifices. 'She lews, even from the
r 8 t 1 r ! I ' I. ~I.I.~.. Ir. ,l:-.lltl.ll ll.rll. 81~1.. 11 t1.e
In this class may be inclllded also sacrifices of conf,.,
,. .I. gr,..! t.ttobln.!. 1.r r.,If ,I... .t,v ,,\*if Ex. 40. fi) ; and the sacrifices for the installation of
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