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John Calvin on Leviticus 6:30

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Leviticus6:30

30. And no sin-offering. The exception is repeated both with reference to the sacrifices mentioned in the fourth chapter, and also to the solemn sacrifice, whereby the priest and the people were reconciled every year: for private persons individually atoned for their sins at less expense, and only the greater altar, which stood in the court, was sprinkled with blood; but if the priest reconciled God to the whole people, or to himself, in order that the intercession might be more efficacious, he entered the sanctuary to pour out blood on the opposite side of the veil. God now again commands that such victims should be entirely burnt. This passage, then, is nothing but a confirmation of the others in which a like command is given. Hence the Apostle, in an apt allusion, infers that the distinction of meats is abolished; for he says that the minor altar, which under the Law was hidden, is now laid open to us, (Hebrews 13:10,) and therefore we no longer eat of the legal sacrifices; yea, forasmuch as our One Priest has brought His blood into the sanctuary, it only remains for us to go forth with Him without the camp.

Leviticus 7

Leviticus 7:1-5

1. Likewise this is the law of the trespass offering: it is most holy.

1. Ista autem est lex hostiae pro delicto: sanctificatio sanctificationum est.

2. In the place where they kill the burnt offering shall they kill the trespass offering: and the blood thereof shall he sprinkle round about upon the altar.

2. Quo in loco mactabunt hostiam holocausti, mactabunt hostiam pro delicto, et sanguinem ejus sparget super altare per circuitum.

3. And he shall offer of it all the fat thereof; the rump, and the fat that covereth the inwards,

3. Totum vero adipem ejus offeret ex ea, caudam, et adipem operientem intestina.

4. And the two kidneys, and the fat that is on them, which is by the flanks, and the caul that is above the liver, with the kidneys, it shall he take away:

4. Duos quoque renes, et adipem qui est super illos qui est prope ilia, et fibram super jecur, cum renibus removebit.

5. And the priest shall burn them upon the altar for an offering made by fire unto the LORD: it is a trespass offering.

5. Adolebitque illa sacerdos super altare oblationem ignitam Jehovae: oblatio pro delicto est.

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