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sojent and daring opposition to the will of God . Esther vii . 5 . The neglect of Moses in circumcising his son was a wilful offence , but prob ably not presumptuous , as Zipporah jperhaps had opposed the doing of it . JixocL iv . 24 , 25 . So the captive Jews marrying strange wives at Babylon was a wilful oftence , but probably not a
presumptuous transgression , as there might be a scarcity of Jewish females there . Exod . x . 2 . JJut when Moses and Aaron , commanded the Israelites to go up against the 'Canaanites , and they would not ,
but murmured , and talked of marking a captain and returning to Kgypt , and even proposed to stone them with stones , their offence was highly presumptuous . Numb . xili . 17—35 , and xiv . 1— -10 v Therefore they were very severely punished for it , ver . 23 . And afterwards * when they saw
their folly , and would go against their enemies , though neither Moses nor the ar ] k of God was with them , their behaviour , was especiall y criminal , and they were made to suffer for it , ver . 42 r- ^ 45 . Therefore Moses , many years after , said , unto them , in reference to
| his circumstance , so I spake unto you , and ye woujd not hear , but repelled against the commandment of tile Tjoxd ,, , $ . 11 ( 1 went presumptuousl y up ir ^ p the hill . Deut . i . 48 . xyiii . % -7-2 ^ . ^ Accordingly it is said in IjeuL : ^ iL 1 S > . and the man that will
4 o , ^ presumptuously , and , will not oearkejp * unto the priest , &c . . or iijnto $ ne judge ^ even that inan shall iftie . ... The . character . of such persons is oes ^ ribecl by the prqphet Jeremiah
, chap , xviii- 12 , who said to him , when he Drought a message from God Jo ihern , there is no hope , we will ^ v alk a fte r pur own devices , and we will everyone do after the imagination © f his own evil heart . .
3 . The Jiebrew vyords found in the above passages signify acting with a hjgh lijapd ^ or doing a thing proudly , or arrogantly : as Niii » b . xy . 30 , e&celsa MQTiU t JDeuJ- xvii . 12 , And the man tpa ^ wij l do presumptuously , superbia & ) J 3 e ^ , it :. i . 43 * and Exod . xxi . 14 > and * s , xix . 13 , dertve 4 ' frop * superbivit ,
jfflerve M arpoganter &gi £ r See JBwxtorf ' a we&tn-A j n ^ i Neh ^ m ^ h ^ pe ^ kingoftdie ^ Ji Pr q ^ l , haughty , daring . conduct ifif ^ hftTC ^ h * uses thfe s ^ tiae term , , J § ee ^ neiji ^ x . 10 .
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It therefore appears that every wilful offence is not , in the eye of the law , a presumptuous one , at least not that high presumption which is threatened with death . Therefore it still remains
true that wilful sins are , in general , atpneable by the law of Moses , i . e . where the law has not expressly determined it otherwise . VI 11 . No sin offering was appointed for idolatry , murder , blasphemy , adultery , witchcraft , lying with a beast , &c . or for any capital offence . See Exod . xxii . 18—20 . Levit . xxiv . 11 — 1 6 * Numb . xxv . 3 . Deut . xiii . 6 . xxii . 22 : —24 . 1 Kings xxi . 10 . These are all presumptuous offences , and therefore no atonement was to oe
made for them . When therefore 13 avid was guilty of murder and adultery , he said to God , thou desires ^ t&ot sacrifice , else would I give it thee ., jp £ 1 L l 6 * And when Cain slew feis brother Abel , no sacrifice was . accepted , but he was banished frooFi the presence of the Lord . Gen . iv . 11—16 .
It may be proper to add . here , that If a person knew himself to be qerenajjniail y polluted , x > r guilty of a breach of the law , and nevertheless presented himself before God at the taherriacle or temple service , his crime was ^ presumptuous , and he bec&me liable to be cut off for it . Levit . xv . 31 . Nunat .
xix . 13 . Acts xxiv . 6 , 18 . .,. * t f Sometimes atonement was made with money , JExod . xxx ., 12- ^ - 'l 6 ,. wi ^ i prayer and incense ,, £ Jumb . rxvL 463 , &f .
And if a guilty person , was so . , poor that , he could not , procure two ^ ypung pigeons for a sin offering , , be , w : a » required to present ^ the tenth part of an ephah of fine flour , part of which waa burnt on the altar . Levit . v . 7—43 .
But the standing rule was to do it with blood . . , If it should be said that atonement was made by the scapegoat without bloody Levit . x . vi . it may be repIied ^ lEat there were two goats provided foe the business of that day , and that ? these two goats were considered so mach aa
one , and the service one , that they cast lats which of them shouid ^ be offered a sacrifice to God , a 4 d fi ^ hich should be the scapegoats - That one of them was piAt to death * and . aUMiement made with his blood , Sptithe very sins which were aftejwar 4 » icotvfessed by thje hi || h-priest , aver tl ^ bead of the scapegoat ^ and therefore the
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Mr . Jevans on ( he Levit-ical Sacrifices . ^ K )
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1816, page 719, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2459/page/27/
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