[373]. Lev. xiv.
[374]. Lev. xvi.; xxiii. 26-32; Ex. xxx. 10; Num. xxix. 7-11.
[375]. In three or four instances, it is true, a sin-offering is demanded from the perpetrator of some act of moral wrong. But in all these cases a suitable punishment was ordained also; a circumstance inconsistent with the idea, that the expiation procurred remission of guilt. The sacrifice appended to the penal infliction, indicates the two-fold character of the act;—at once a ceremonial defilement and a crime; and requiring, to remedy the one, an atoning rite,—to chastise the other, a judicial penalty. See an excellent tract by Rev. Edward Higginson, of Hull, entitled, “The Sacrifice of Christ scripturally and rationally interpreted:” particularly pp. 30-34.
[376]. Heb. viii. 2. 5.
[377]. ix. 1, 23, 24.
[378]. vii. 16; viii. 1.
[379]. viii. 3.
[380]. Heb. ix. 15.
[381]. viii. 5.
[382]. x. 3.