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From which ceremony the' goat became so polluted with the stain of these sins , that it polluted him by whom it was led away with a kind of corresponding stain : as appears from his not being permitted to return to the camp till he had washed his clothes
and bathed in water . Lastly , it is to be observed , with respect to such victims in piacular sacrifices , as had their blood carried into the holy place , but their bodies burnt without the camp , after imposition of hands and confession of sins , that thus a similar pollution arose in them as that of the
scape-goat . Which appears from the pollution of those who carried their bodies out of the camp to burn them . From these circumstances . there appears ( in the opinion of Dr . Outram ) the clearest indication of vicarious punishment , **
What creates suspicion of the unsoundness of this argument , is the small proportion of cases in which the imposition of hands and ( supposed ) confession of sins over the victim
seems to convey this impurity . For there are only four instances of it . The sin offering of ignorance for the high-priest , ( Lev . iv . 3 , ) that for the whole congregation , (( Lev . iv . 13 , ) and whole congregation , Lev . iv . 13 , ) and
the sin-offerings at the festival of expiation , one for the high-pr iest and house of Aaron , another for the congregation of Israel . ( Lev . xvi . ) There is no indication of impurity being conveyed to the victim by imposition of hands in the following cases : the
sinoffering for any of the common people who had sinned through ignorance j the sin-offering of ignorance for a ruler , all the trespass-offerings , peaceofferings and burnt-offerings . Now , the flesh of the victims employed in these various sacr ifices , so far from
being considered as polluted by sacrifice , was either wholly consumed on the altar , or was used in holy festivals , or else was the portion and subsistence of the priests who officiated . Nay , it is sometimes pronounced to be most holy , and on that account not to be
eateu btit in the holy place , by every male of the family of Aaron . ( Lev : vii . 6 . ) r , And this is particularly affirmed respecting the i flesh of all * r « -offerings , e x *^ cing utho 8 p . caacjs of * sip ^ oflfcdlig wiuph hiwe been pat $ icularizedaa b < £ ing' . l ^ ate t ' friiliiimtucw . 'CAiitip' - ( Ley . vi .
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25 , &c .. ) ; and we learn ? from the last verse df this chapter of Leviticus , that ; the reason , or rath e r the rule of this distinction , was , that those were not to be eaten of which the blood was
brought into the holy place and sprinkled towards the mercy-seat . €€ No sin-offering , whereof any of the blood is brought into the Tabernacle of the congregation to reconcile withal in the holy place , shall be eaten ; it shall be burnt in the fire . " ( Lev . vi . 30 . )
It is maintained , indeed , by some , that the flesh of all sin-offerings became polluted by the rite of sacrifice , and that whereas it is said , ( Lev . vi . 18 , ) " Every one that toucheth it shall be holy , " this should be rendered " shall be sanctified or cleansed /'
shall be under the necessity of cleansing himself . In proof of this , Dr . Magee appeals to what is adduced in Wall ' s Critical Notes , where he says this point is most satisfactorily treated . We have not access to this work , and shall , therefore , only say that we
require more than Dr . Magee ' s dictum to persuade us that Wall or any man can prove that flesh , of which the ministering priests ate , in the holy place , as of a most holy thing , was such as to pollute and contaminate those who touched it .
We are not called upon at present to give any theory for the explanation of that pollution which seems to have inhered in the bodies of those sinofferings of which the blood had been taken into the holy , or most holy place . Only we appeal to the judgment of our readers , to determine whether these few instances in which
sacrifices for 8 in seem to have involved pollution , out of a great number of other sin-offerings which involve no idea of pollution , can be considered as conclusive . As far as we have yet gone , therefore , we have seen nothing that proves the vicarious import of Jewish sacrifices . And yet , if this be not proved , it seems obvious that the whole of
what is co mmonly . called , the orthodox system , of typical sacrifices , imputed sins , &c ; , muat fall ito , the ground . : > © iv Magee * * indeed , who evidently wishes to ehid&the task of m&iatain ing the old ^ scheme of a , VtHter ^ tratitelattouvtof ' guilt > ami / puujfihm ^ itf fmtni $ hbtvftc&tt * M the n&imi " jmd wUa c 0 b # * atl *! a t ; es Mmsd&qnJfis m $ e
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An Essay on the Nature and Design of Sacrifices under the Mosaic Law . 335
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1823, page 335, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1785/page/23/
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