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The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 8:13
The investiture of Aaron's sons—Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar, Ithamar—follows the consecration of their father. They are robed, according as the Lord commanded Moses in Exodus 28:40, in the white tunic, the sash, and the cap.…
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 8:13-21
The vesting of the priests and the offerings for them. In the order of the ceremonies at the consecration of the priests, after the anointing of Aaron, we have— I. THE CLOTHING OF AARON'S SONS. (Leviticus 8:13.) 1. They…
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 8:13-36
The sacrifices of consecration. Aaron and his sons. Holy week of separation. "So Aaron and his sons did all things which the Lord commanded by the hand of Moses." Moses, the mediator of the covenant, consecrated those w…
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 8:14-30
The triple offering. Under the Christian dispensation only two classes of priests remain—the real High Priest, Jesus Christ, and his people who are figurative priests offering up spiritual sacrifices. The ceremonies des…
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 8:14
The sin offering. This was the first sin offering ever offered. There had been burnt offerings and sacrifices akin to peace offerings before, but no sin offerings. At once the sin offering takes its place as the first o…
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 8:14-32
After the bathing, the robing, and the anointing, follow the sacrifices of consecration—the sin offering (Leviticus 8:14-17), the burnt offering (Leviticus 8:18-21), the peace offering (Leviticus 8:22-32).
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 8:15-17
And Moses took the blood. Moses continues still to act as priest, and the new sacrifice is once offered by him. He performs the priestly act of presenting the blood; but on this occasion, which is special, the blood is…
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 8:18-21
There is no deviation on the present occasion from the ritual appointed for the burnt offering. After the sin offering, righteousness is symbolically imputed to Aaron; after the burnt offering, holiness; then follows th…
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 8:22-29
The ram offered as a peace offering is called the ram of consecration, or literally, of filling, because one of the means by which the consecration was effected and exhibited was the filling the hands of those presented…
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 8:22-36
The ram of consecration. This and the ceremonies connected form the principal subject of the verses now recited. We notice— I. THAT IT WAS A PEACE OFFERING. 1. The first ram was a burnt offering. 2. Burnt offerings were…
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 8:30
The sprinkling with oil and blood completes the ceremony of anointing, and suffices of itself for the sons of Aaron, in addition to their virtual participation in the anointing of their father (Leviticus 8:12). "In the…
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 8:33-36
The sacrificial ceremonies were repeated for seven days, during which Aaron and his sons remained in the court of the tabernacle, but did not enter the holy place, abstaining throughout that time from ministering, as th…
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 8:33-36
The burden of the Lord. It is in our nature to love distinction, office, power. The instincts and impulses of our humanity enter with us into the service of the Lord; they belong to us as subjects of the kingdom of Chri…
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 9:1-24
EXPOSITION THE FIRST PRIESTLY ACTS OF AARON AND HIS SONS are recounted in the chapter following that which narrates their consecration.
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 9:1-6
On the eighth day. The seven days of consecration being now over, Aaron for the first time offers a sin offering and burnt offering for himself, and a sin offering, a burnt offering, a peace offering, and a meat offerin…
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 9:1-24
A sign expected and received. cf. 2 Chronicles 5:13, 2 Chronicles 5:14; Ezra 6:10-22; Acts 1:1-26, Acts 2:1-47. We have now before us the hopeful fashion in which Aaron and his sons entered upon their work. The consecra…
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 9:1-7
The eighth day. There is sacred mystery in the numbers of Holy Scripture well worthy of attention. We have an example before us. I. ON THIS DAY THE CONSECRATIONS WERE COMPLETED. 1. The eighth is a day signalized by sanc…
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 9:1-6
Appearing together before God. It is true that we are always "in the presence of the Lord." "He is not far from any one of us." "He compasses our path and our lying down: he besets us behind and before." There is no man…
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 9:1-24
Subject: God's glory manifested in the blessedness of his people. The priests enter upon their office, offer sacrifices for themselves and the people, and receive tokens of Jehovah's presence and blessing. "And Aaron li…
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 9:7
Sacrifice for sin. We may look first at our subject simply as an incident in human history, apart from the consideration of its place in the respired record. Then we have— I. A REPRESENTATIVE SCENE IN THE HISTORY OF MAN…
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 9:7
Make an atonement for thyself, and for the people. By means of the sin offering for the high priest, whose sin brought guilt both on himself and upon the people (Leviticus 4:3). After he had (symbolically) purified hims…
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 9:8-14
The high priest's sin offering and burnt offering for himself. The meat offering does not appear to have accompanied the burnt offering—the law having not yet been promulgated which ordered that the two sacrifices shoul…
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 9:8-23
The first act of the new priesthood is sacrifice, by which reconciliation was ceremonially effected; the second (Leviticus 9:22, Leviticus 9:23), a double benediction. As soon as the people are reconciled to him, God's…
The Pulpit Commentary on Leviticus 9:8-24
Aaron's first priestly services. Moses officiated as the priest of the Lord until the consecration of Aaron and his sons was completed. Now they enter upon their functions, and the verses recited furnish us with an acco…