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\ w every individual persou who had broken the law , before he could appear again before God at the Temple service . Numb . xix . 13 . 2 . It is readily acknowledged , that the blood of bulls and of goats could not take away all sins . The law of
Moses forbad that atonement should be made for idolatry , murder , adultery , &e . &c , and all really presumptuous offences . But there are a great number of wilful transgressions which are uot , properly speaking , and in the eye of the law of Moses , presumptuous , and which were never treated by the
Jewish magistrates as presumptuous . This practice shews how they understood the law . If every wilful offence bad been considered as presumptuous , and treated as such , what a field of blood their country must have been , and how soon it must have been
depopulated ^ For would , or who could , have lived under such bloody laws ? 3 . If the Apostle had asserted ( in the generally-received sense of the words ) that the blood of bulls and of goats could not take away sin , he would have contradicted , not only the language of the patriarchs and of Mos « s , but even his own words , for he
says , just before , that is , at chap . ix . 22 , that * ' almost all things are by the law purged with blood ; and without shedding of blood is" ( generally
speaking ) c < no remission . " The fact , I apprehend , is , 4 . That the Apostle means to say , that no one sin-offering could take away all our past , present and future sins , without being ever more repeated . And this is what we all believe
for the all-wise God never gave any one patriarchal or Jewish sacrifice such unlimited power . And that this is really the Apostle ' s meaning here , I hope will most evidently appear from the words that are connected with them . See Heb . x . 1
—18 : " For the law having a shadow of good things to come , and not the very image of the things , can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually , make the
comers thereunto perfect . For then " ( i . e . if they could have effected so much ) < € would they not have ceased to he offered ? " Observe , reader , that the last words are put as a question Therefore , he says , ( in that case , )
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would they not have ceased to be offered I That is , if one single sacrifice could have been offered that could have taken away all their past , pre- *
sent and future sins , would not such a sacrifice have been offered , and so an end have been put to the offering of such sacrifices for sin for ever ? But no such sacrifice ever was offered
by any Jewish priest , which is perfectly convincing that no Jewish sa- * crifice was possessed of such very extraordinary power . That is , it was not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should in , this peculiar sense take away sin . And ,
5 . That this is the Apostle ' s meaning , in the words under consideration , farther appears from his immediately proceeding to shew , that the sacrifice of Jesus Christ possesses this very extraordinary power . See from vers . 5 —10 . " Wherefore , When he" ( i . e . Jesus Christ ) . " cometh into the
world , he saith , Sacrifice and , offering thou wouldst not , but a hody hast thou prepared me : in burnt-offerings and sacrifices for sin thou hast had no pleasure . Then said I , Lo , I come ( in the volume of the book it is
written of me ) to do thy will , O God .- — He taketh away the first , that he may establish the second . By the which ^ will" ( i . e . the appointment of God ) " we are sanctified through . the
offering of the body of Jesus Christ once ( for all ) . And every priest standeth daily ministering and offering oftentimes the same sacrifices , which can never take away sins : but this man , after he had offered one sacrifice for
sins , for ever sat down on the right hand of God ; from henceforth expecting * till his enemies be made his footstool . For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified . Whereof the Holy Ghost also is a witness to us : for after that he
had said before , This is the covenant that I will make in those days , saith the Lord ; I will put my laws into their hearts , and in their minds will I write them ; and their sins and iniquities will I remember no more . Now where
remission of these is , there is no more offering for sin . " So it is said , in chap . ix . 26 : " Now once in the end of the world hath he' * ( i . e . Jesus Christ ) " appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself . " Moreover , that this is the Apostle ' s
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Mr . Jevam ' s Thoughts on Heb . x # 4 * 501
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1826, page 201, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2547/page/13/
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