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129_f; verse 3, then let him bring for his sin

Sacrifice (typical). See Verses Lev. 4:3-35; Lev. 5:1-19.
(Gen. 4:4; Heb. 10:18.)

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129_1; verse 3, without blemish unto the Lord for a sin-offering

The Sin Offering

The sin-offering, through still Christ, is Christ seen laden with the believer's sin, absolutely in the sinner's place and stead, and not, as in the sweet savour offerings, in His own perfections. It is Christ's death as viewed in Isaiah 53; Psalm 22; Matthew 26:28; 1 Peter 2:24; 1 Peter 2:24; 1 Peter 3:18.

But note Lev. 6:24-30, how the essential holiness of Him who was "made sin for us" ( 2 Cor. 5:21) is guarded. The sin-offerings are expiatory [having power to atone for or offered by way of expiation: "expiatory (or propiatory) sacrifice"], substitutional, efficacious (Lev. 4:12, 29, 35; For more see Sin Offering); and have in view the vindication of the law through substitutional sacrifice.

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130_b; Leviticus 4:20b, it shall be forgiven them

Forgiveness.

Cf. Leviticus 5:10, 13; Leviticus 4:20, 26, 31, 35.

(Leviticus 4:20; Matthew 26:28; Ref. Matthew 26:28.)

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130_1; Leviticus 4:12, shall he carry forth without the camp

Cf. Exodus 29:14; Leviticus 16:27; Numbers 19:3; Hebrews 13:10-13.

Sanctify (separate or set apart for God).

Hebrews 13:10-13 is the most interpretative passage.

The "camp" was Judaism—a religion of forms and ceremonies. "Jesus, also, that He might sanctify [separate, or set apart for God] the people with [or 'through'] His own blood, suffered without the gate" [temple gate, city gate, i.e. Judaism civil and religious]; Hebrews 13:12.

But how does this sanctify, or set apart, a people? "Let us go forth therefore unto Him without the camp [Judaism then, Judaized Christianity now—anything religious which denies Him as our sin-offering] bearing His reproach" (Hebrews 13:13). The sin-offering, "burned without the camp," typifies this aspect of the death of Christ. The cross becomes a new altar, in a new place, where, without the smallest merit in themselves, the redeemed gather to offer, as believer-priests, spiritual sacrifices (Hebrews 13:15; 1 Peter 2:5).

The bodies of the sin-offering beasts were not burned without the camp, as some have fancied, because "saturated with sin," and unfit for a holy camp. Rather, an unholy camp was an unfit place for a holy sin-offering. The dead body of our Lord was not "saturated with sin," though in it our sins had been borne (1 Peter 2:24).

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110_1; Leviticus 4:20b, and the priest shall make an atonement for them

Exodus 29:33, things wherewith the (1) atonement was made

Atonement

Heb. kaphar, "to cover." The English word "atonement" (at-one-ment) is not a translation of the Heb. kaphar, but a translator's interpretation. According to Scripture the legal sacrifice "covered" the offerer's sin and secured the divine forgiveness; according to the translators it made God and the sinner at-one. But the Old Testament sacrifices did not at-one the sinner and God. "It is not possible that the blood of bulls and goats should take away sins" (Hebrews 10:4).

The Israelite's offering implied confession of sin and of its due desert, death; and God "covered" ("passed over," Romans 3:25) his sin, in anticipation of Christ's sacrifice, which did, finally, "put away" the sins "done aforetime in the forbearance of God" (Romans 3:25; Hebrews 9:15). See Ref. Note Page 1195_2.)

The word "atonement" does not occur in the New Testament; Romans 5:11, meaning reconciliation, and so rendered in the Revised Version. See "Sacrifice," Genesis 4:4, and references. See more on atonement. Leviticus 16.

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Atonement.

Hebrew word: kaphar, "To Cover."

Exodus 29:33.

33 And they shall eat those things wherewith the (1) atonement was made, to consecrate and to sanctify them: but a stranger shall not eat thereof, because they are holy.