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Title: The pictorial Bible and commentator: presenting the great truths of God's word in the most simple, pleasing, affectionate, and instructive manner
Year: 1878 (1870s)
Authors: Cobbin, Ingram, 1777-1851 March, Daniel, 1816-1909 Brockett, L. P. (Linus Pierpont), 1820-1893 Stretton, Hesba, 1832-1911
Subjects: Jesus Christ John, the Apostle, Saint Bible
Publisher: Philadelphia (etc.) Bradley, Garretson & co. Columbus, Ohio (etc.) W. Garretson & co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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ree. Theone goat was then slain as asin-offering for the people;and the blood of it, and ofthe other sin-offering, wassprinkled upon the altar.The other was to be thescape-goat, or the goatwhich was allowed to es-cape: the high priest laidhis hands on his head, andthen confessed the sins ofIsrael; and he was to bearaway these sins into thewilderness, to which he wasled and allowed to go free.Burnt-offerings and sin-offerings were then added:the fat of the sin-offering was burnt on the altar, and the flesh withoutthe camp. The people rested from labor on that day, and they mournedtheir sins. This was the practice on the day of atonement. You will wonder how the scape-goat could bear away the sins of thepeople; but you must understand that this scape-goat was to typify orexhibit, as in a picture, the great Saviour of sinners, Jesus Christ, of whomthe sacrifices were constant representations. We are pardoned through thedeath of Christ, who died for our sins, if we believe on him ; and we
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THE SCAPE-GOAT. Leviticus. 161 shall be made inheritors of the kingdom of heaven, and enjoy immortallife—that is, a life of joy that can never end—through the resurrection ofChrist. Now, both these truths were taught here as in a shadow. Butone goat could not teach both; for the goat that died could not live again.Therefore there were two goats appointed to be used: one was slain, as wehave told you, to set forth the death of Christ, the great atonement orreconciler between God and man ; and the other was let free into the wilder-ness, bearing the peoples sins, to show that all those were to be forgottenthrough him, and lost like the goat in the wilderness, and that through hislife we should not die. The Year of Jubilee. Leviticus xxv. 10. THE Jews, besides keeping every seventh day as a day of rest, werealso commanded to keep every seventh year, called on that account theSabbatical Year. This was an additional remembrancer of the Sabbathday. In that year, therefore,they neither s

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