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JVfagee * Diso&tfrses , &c ., y tfcfct fhfe ceremony of the imposition of ttahdtf , was ndt attended vrtth the acknowledgment of sin in sacrifices not " piacular , it is necessary ta shew that in none but piacular was there afcy rcfference whatever to sin . In these ,
indeed , the pafdon of sin is the appropriate object ; but that in our expressions of praise and thanksgiving , acknowledgment should be made of our own unworthiness , and of the treneral desert of sin , seems not unreasonable . That even the eucharistic
sacrifices ( the peace-offerings ) theix might bear some relation to sin , especially if animal sacrifice , in its first institution , was designed to represent that death which had been brought in by sin , will , perhaps , not be deemed improbable . And in confirmation of this it is certain that the Jewish
Doctors combine , in all cases , confession of sins with imposition of hands . " The reference here is to Dr . Outrarn , De Sacr . lib . i . c . xv . § 8 . Now , what Dr . Outram states is this . It appears that the imposition of hands was in all cases a method of
prayer for good , or imprecation of evil , or both . Hence it arises that solemn prayers are currently designated by the single word % zi § o 6 bcticl ( " the laying on oFhands , " ) where no mention is made of any prayers in express words . ( Deut . xxxiv . 9 , \ Tim . v . 22 . ) So that the same law which
prescribes imposition of hands on the head of the victim , may be judged to have tacitly prescribed that the presenting of prayers should be part of the sacrifice . Hence the saying of Aaron Ben Chajim , pttttf nil f tt HD ^ DD j"o > Dprrtr > ktt nmnrA , nipon " Ul > i non est fpeccatorum ]
confessio « ibi non est imoositio roanuum . sio , ibi non est impositio roanuum , quia mariiium impositio ad confessionem pertinet . " Where there is no confession there is ito imposition of hands , becahde the imposition of hands appertains to confession .
• Dr . Outraiu here inserts ** peccatorum 5 but it does aot appear that the word » i * n , requires this insertion , as from the Leklcotfo ' , ' and vaVjom passages of Scripture , it Is evident tfoat the wo * d is often usedn for confessions or ascriptions of praise . i
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He i next states that MaitnOtrideft concurs in this opinion , rfo far sit least as appears from the following passage : * ' Ambas quisque mantis snas inter bina victimae cornua ponit , et pfcccatum confitetar juxta yi <
rtimam pro peccato noxatnque juxta victifiiam pro nox ^ caesain , ac juxta holocaustum confitetur ea , quae contra leges jubentes facta sunn , vel qukferii contra leges vetantes , quibus jubentes implicantur . " " Juxta victimas salutares , ut mihi videtar , non confitetur fpeccata sua ] sed Dei landes
commemorat /* Thus Maimonides gives it as his opinion that , with respect to peace-ofierings , no confessions of sins , but praises of God , were uttered at the ceremony of the imposition of hands . Thm it appears far from obvious , from this passage of Dr . Outram , that the Jewish Doctors combine m all
cases confessions of sins with impositioa of hands : for the words themselves are ambiguous ; and Maimonides advances a directly different opinion .
Dr . Magee proceeds ( in the place before cited ) to argue in the following manner : "But be this as it may , it is at all events clear that if the ceremony be admitted to have had in each kind of sacrifice the signification
suited to its peculiar nature and intention , it necessarily follows , that when used in piacular sacrifices it implies a reference to and acknowledgment of sin /* Or , as he explains himself a few sentences after , ** that this
ceremony wa 3 intended symbolically to transfer the sins of the offerer on the head of the victim /* Why , if there were piacular sacrifices in which the sins of the offerer were symbolically transferred to the victim , then this ceremony might
express such transfer , but this is the very thing to be proved ; and the question is , not having other proof of the vicarious import of sacrifices , does the use of this ceremony afford such proof ? We say , clearly not , for it is introducedinto Ihe ceremonial
of thfe eucharistic sacrifices , which had no Preference to sin , ancf could not , therefore , receive such reference from tKis c ^ erirtori y ; the imposition of hands , therefore , oh the head of the vietini wafc > ridt calculated Ho confer a vicHrioiK 5 iropbrt on sacrifices : ftrttfrri
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An £ *** # on ttie ffatitre and I > esign of Sfdcrifitei Under &e Mosaic ' Late . 3 $ 8
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1823, page 333, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1785/page/21/
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