15-34, The loneliness of the high priest, v. 17; the sprinkling of blood within the veil upon the mercy seat, v. 16; the fragrant incense, emblematic of a well-pleasing offering, v. 13; the confession of sin and its bearing-away into a solitary land, v. 22; the linen garments of simplicity and humility, v. 23; the destruction of the carcasses of the beasts “without the camp,” v. 27; the ultimate coming forth of the high priest to bless the people, bringing them the assurance of a finished and accepted work, v. 24, compare Heb. 9: 28all these points are carefully elaborated in the Epistle to the Hebrews.

The fate of the scapegoat was very moving! Laden with the sins of the people, it is led forth through the crowd of penitents, innocent yet execrated, dumb yet eloquent of the doom of the sin bearer, escaping death by the knife, to be forsaken even unto death! So Jesus died, with the ery of “Forsaken” on his lips.

22. ‘The Life of the Flesh is in the Blood.”

' Leviticus 17:1-16. Every animal that was slain for food was regarded as a kind of peace-offering, and was

From Painting by Wm. Houman Hunr. Modern British Artist.

therefore slain at the door of the Tabernacle. This law, though it expressed a great principle, was only provisional. It was kept as long as Israel dwelt in the Wilderness, but repealed when they entered the Land of Promise, where their numbers and diffusion would have rendered its strict observance impossible. See Deut. 12:15-24.

Very earnest insistence is laid on the prohibition of blood as an article of diet. See v. 10, etc. The reason of this is in the repeated announcement that the life (or soul) is in the blood, vs. 11 and 14. When we are told that the blood maketh atonement, we learn that it does so because it represents the soul of the victim. Life is given for life, soul for soul.