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In what follows , we are first reminded that the paschal lambs are called in the Old Testament G 3 * nyt sacrifices , a fact of no importance to tfie argument , since this word , derived from a root signifying " to slay , " expresses the death of the victim , bat has nothing to do with the purpose of the sacrifice , whether expiating , eucharistical , or , as was certainly the case with the paschat lamb , merely a commemorativfe sign . We are then told that in the morning and evening sacrifice " the whole of the carcass was burnt and
offered up , to expiate the sins not only of the Jews , but of the whole human race ; " in justification of which , passages are cited from Josephus and Phtlo ; but one of the passages from Josephus is not at all to the purpose , only stating that the lambs were offered at the public expense ; and little importance can be attached to the other , which relates " that the Jews affirmed to Suetonius , the president , that they twice every day offered up sacrifices for Caesar and the Roman people ; " a piece of flattery which we n ^ ed not suppose connected in their minds with any religion truth , and which need not
at all be explained to . refer to expiation . The passage from Philo expressly states ( which we wonder Mr . Bloomfield could overlook ) , that the morning and evening sacrifices were " thank offerings , " consequently not expiatory ( Cirep tv % < zpi < rria . t Udnpov ); and Mr . Bloomfield has himself recorded Gaoler ' s objection , on this very ground , to the interpretation he adopts . The expression "lamb of God" is further insisted on as meaning " the lamb accepted
of God ; or destined to death by God himself , " as , l $ yov t « & Btov , a work approved fry God , % ovj rev Ssovy a Hfe approved by God—we should rather compare it with , such phrases as " man of God , " i . e . devoted to the service of God or * righteousness of God " ( Phil . iii . 9 ) , i . e . righteousness or justification given by God , &c .
Lastly , iMt . Bloomfield relies greatly on the force of the word aXp&w , though he is himself in great uncertainty whether a * pnv -n }* duapr ^ p is ' * to take away the guilt of sins , " to expiate them , or is to be understood of " suffering , undergoing and paying the punishment of sins ; since the victim took on himself and bore the sins . " If the first be admitted , " to take away the guilt of shV may be understood to announce pardon and the means of acceptance to sinneis , without any reference to the death of Christ . The
seeond supposition rests on a misapprehension of Levit . iv . 4 , &c ., nothing betngitheieor dsewhere said of laying sins on the hedd of the sin-offering , and the intention of that sort of offering being a public acknowledgment of the sin , accompanied by a small fine , together answering as a sufficient punishment fdr the kind of faults for which these offerings were appointed ; md ot Levit . xvi . 21 , &c , the scape-goat not being ordered to bci stein ; and not
being in any sense a sacrifice , but merely a symbolical representation of tne purification of the people ; had our author ' s view been correct , tKe smaj would have been laia on the goat that was killed , not on that which was aet at liberty . , . KuiiMtel thinks it tatinot be proved that John the Bapttst ^ pecfetftW deartofGhiifefc ; thatouiiLord is here called a Lamti in . refeteii < fe J » J «» character as an innocent and meek person ; that hfe " taking away the sSna . of tte Worlds m not intended as a reason for hid bfcing crfted a Laitifo x & € fre being m *^ er * nce >< d saMfick ; and that to tafe ^ awk ^ sin ^ is to be explained teretMo ^ wV ^ by teaching ! and promoting virtue , he qu otes 1 Whu Hi . 5 , otUrt Zn LKUvQt ^ anouOn , Ua ra t dpttprlou ; H if OSw ift . } s . idea of the senae is thus erpressdd : ^ o ^ teirjUAi tttilWWt ^ timi y *»* \^ yfy ™ ff devo ( Ml ( ^ mWfat ^ lo . i ^ vG ^ iuA yA ^^ A ^ WlNtMi ^ form : te will remove thfc sins of men , and extirjrctfe vice from t ^ e earth , he
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Review . —Bloomfleld ' t Recensio Synoptiba Annotations Sacra . 597
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1827, page 597, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1799/page/45/
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