[12] Even in the burnt-offering, the hide of the victim was assigned to the priest (vii. 8).
[13] See "Die Bücher Exodus und Leviticus," 2 Aufl., p. 462.
[14] Especially striking in this connection is the expression used by the Apostle Paul (Rom. xv. 16), where he speaks of himself as "a minister of Christ Jesus unto the Gentiles, ministering the Gospel of God;" in which last phrase, the Greek word denotes "ministration as a priest." See R.V., margin.
[15] "Commentary on the Epistle to the Hebrews," vol. ii., p. 172.
[16] See, e.g., Exod. xxiv. 10; Ezek. i. 26.
[17] Thus e.g., in Cant. iv. 13, where the Revised Version reads, "Thy shoots are an orchard of pomegranates," the Jewish paraphrast in the Chaldee Targum renders, "Thy young men are filled with the commandments (of God) like unto pomegranates (sc. with their seeds)."
[18] Not, however, as many imagine, in behalf of those who have in this age died in sin, but in ministrations to the living nations in the flesh, in the age to come. We find no ground of hope, in Holy Scripture, for the impenitent dead.
[19] The interposition of chapters xi.-xv. on ceremonial uncleanness, between chapters x. and xvi., which are so closely connected by this historical note in xvi. 1, certainly suggests an editorial redaction—as the phrase is—in which the latter chapter, for whatsoever reason, has been removed from its original context. But that such a redaction, of which we have in the book other traces, does not of necessity affect in the slightest degree the question of its inspiration and Divine authority, should be self-evident.
[20] "Die Bücher Exodus und Leviticus," 2 Aufl., p. 525.
[21] "Symbolik des Mosäischen Cultus," 2 Band., p. 668.