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priests , indeed , seem to have been employed in the business : they killed the passover , and sprinkled the blood frnni their hands * a singular mode of expression , if there was any mystery
in it , or any importance attached to it , and this they did not by the authority of Moses or the command of God ; but , as it should seem , by the authority of the king ; for we are told they were there according to his commandment . Now we well know that
kings and priests have always been fond of assumed , unauthorized power . Kings sometimes dispense with the law of God . Thus Hezekiah commanded the passover to be kept on thefourteenth day of the second month , contrary to the command of God by
Moses , that it should- be kept on the fourteenth day' of the Jirst month . ** : And a multitude of the people had not cleansed themselves , yet did they eat the passover , otherwise than it was written ; but Hezekiah prayed for them , saying , The good Lord pardon erery one / ' *
As to the sprinkling of the blood of the passover from the hands of the priests , it could have no relation to the sprinkling of the blood of their sacrifices by the high-priest within the veil , but was properly a memorial of the sprinkling of the blood of the passover , on the lintel and door-posts of the houses of the children of Israel
in Egypt ; that the destroying Angel , seeing the blood , might pass over their houses , and not slay their first-born . Besides , in the account of Josi all ' s passover , there is not any mention of
the high-priest , ( who alone could carry the blood of their sacrifices into the holy of holies and sprinkle it there , ) as having- any thing to do with it .
But to proceed . Dr . Magee goes on to assert , that , " 2 . The blood of the paschal lamb was poured out , sprinkled , arid offered at the altar by the priests , in like mariner as the blood of the victims usually slain in sacrifice , as appears from Exod . xxiii . 18 , and xxxiv . 25 ' , 2 Chron . xxx . 15 , 16 , and xxxv . 1 I /'
In the former of these passages , we read , «« Thou shalt not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leavened bread , * 2 Chron- xxx . JL 5 18 .
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neither shall the fat of < my sacrifice remain until the morning . " In the margin , in which the translators profess to give a more exact meaning of the original , instead of the word
sacrifi ce they have inserted t he word feast , the fat of my feast . Nor is there any word in the original fhat answers to the word offer in the translation . The literal rendering of the passage , 1 conceive , is , Thou shalt not nilt kill
with leaven the btood of my nm slain heast 9 neither shall the fat of my feast remain until the morning . The killing of the blood * in this passage , evidently means the shedding of it , as appears from the parallel passage also referred to , Chap , xxxiv . C 25 , ** Thou shalt not tonw shed ( not thou
shalt not offer , but thou shalt not shed ) with leaven the blood of my slain beast , neither shall the slaying of the feast . art , or the festival victim * of the passover be left until the
morning . " The fat of my feast shall not remain until the morning , " is exactly in agreement with the words of the institution . i * The lamb was to be
killed in the evening , and the flesh was to be eaten that night roast with fire 3 the head and the legs and the purtenance thereof were to be eaten , and nothing of it was to remain until the
morning . The command , therefore , was to eat the whole that night , and not to leave any of it , even the fat , till the following day . Dr . Magee next refers us to 2 , Chroii .
xxx . 15 , 16 : " Then they killed the passover on the fourteenth day of the second month . ' This is all that is said about the passover in the passage . The remaining part of the 15 th and l 6 lh verses relates entirely to the
burnt-offerings that were offered for the cleansing of the pi'iests and Lcvites j for it follows , " And the priests and the Levites were ashamed , and sanctified themselves , and brought in the burnt-offerings into the house of
the Lord , and they stood in their places after their manner , according to the law of Moses , the man of God : the priests sprinkled the blood , ( namely , the blood of the burnt-offerings , ) which they received of the hands of the JL ^ -
* ft ( «? Pni l . lmrsl . on tlio woid . ¦ \ KjiLiuI . ' xii . (>—10 .
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47 & Remarhs on Dr . Magee " s Arguments to prove the Passover to be a Sacrifice .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1819, page 472, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1775/page/12/
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