Leviticus 8:32

8:14-36 In these types we see our great High Priest, even Christ Jesus, solemnly appointed, anointed, and invested with his sacred office, by his own blood, and the influences of his Holy Spirit. He sanctifies the ordinances of religion, to the benefit of his people and the honour of God the Father; who for his sake accepts our worship, though it is polluted with sin. We may also rejoice, that he is a merciful and faithful High Priest, full of compassion to the feeble-minded and tempest-tossed soul. All true Christians are consecrated to be spiritual priests. We should seriously ask ourselves, whether in our daily walk we study to maintain this character? and abound in spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God through Christ? If so, still there is no cause for boasting. Let us not despise our fellow-sinners; but remembering what we have done, and how we are saved, let us seek and pray for their salvation.

The sprinkling was on their garments as well as their persons, because it belonged to them in reference to the office with which they had been formally invested by putting on the garments. (See Exodus 28:3 note). The union of the two symbols of the atoning blood and the inspiring unction appears to be a fit conclusion of the entire rite.

22-30. brought the other ram,—&c. After the sin offering and burnt offering had been presented on their behalf, this was their peace offering, by which they declared the pleasure which they felt in entering upon the service of God and being brought into close communion with Him as the ministers of His sanctuary, together with their confident reliance on His grace to help them in all their sacred duties.

For the sacrificial meal, the priests were to boil the flesh in front of the door of the tabernacle, or, according to Exodus 29:31 , "at the holy place," i.e., in the court, and eat it with the bread in the fill-offering basket; and no stranger (i.e., layman or non-priest) was to take part in the meal, because the flesh and bread were holy ( Exodus 29:33 ), that is to say, had served to make atonement for the priests, to fill their hands and sanctify them. Atoning virtue is attributed to this sacrifice in the same sense as to the burnt-offering in Leviticus 1:4 . Whatever was left of the flesh and bread until the following day, that is to say, was not eaten on the day of sacrifice, was to be burned with fire, for the reason explained at Leviticus 7:17 . The exclusion of laymen from participating in this sacrificial meal is to be accounted for in the same way as the prohibition of unleavened bread, which was offered and eaten in the case of the ordinary peace-offerings along with the unleavened sacrificial cakes (see at Leviticus 7:13 ). The meal brought the consecration of the priests to a close, as Aaron and his sons were thereby received into that special, priestly covenant with the Lord, the blessings and privileges of which were to be enjoyed by the consecrated priests alone. At this meal the priests were not allowed to eat leavened bread, any more than the nation generally at the feast of Passover ( Exodus 12:8 .).

[Reformed Biblical] e Exo_29:20. Leviticus 8:24 Leviticus 8:25 Leviticus 8:26 Leviticus 8:27 Leviticus 8:28 Leviticus 8:29 ## Moses at this time administering the priest’s office was to receive the priest’s wages; it being most just and reasonable that the work and wages should go together. Leviticus 8:30 Leviticus 8:31 ## Boil the flesh, that which was left of the ram, and particularly the breast, which was said to be Moses’s part, Lev_8:29, and by him was given to Aaron, that he and his sons might eat of it, in token that they, and only they, should have the right to do so for the future. Leviticus 8:32 Leviticus 8:33 ## For seven days the same ceremonies were to be repeated, as the next verse implies, and other rit es to be perfor med. ## He consecrate you; either God or Moses; for the words may be spoken by Moses, either in God’s name, or in his own; Moses speaking of himself in the third person, which is very common in Scripture. Leviticus 8:34 Leviticus 8:35 ## The charge of the Lord; what God hath commanded you concerning your consecra

[Reformed Biblical] om the first day of his consecration, or when the seven days of his consecration were ended, Lev_8:33,35, as appears from Exo_29:30, Eze_43:27. The eighth day is famous in Scripture for the perfecting and purifying both of men and beasts. See Lev_12:2,3 14:8-10 15:13,14 22:27. All the congreg ation were call ed to be witnesses of Aaron’s instalment into his office, to prevent their murmurings and contempt, which being done, the elders were now sufficient to be witnesses of Aaron’s first execution of his office. Leviticus 9:2 ## A young calf, Heb. a calf, the son of a bull or cow ; which may seem to be added purposely to intimate that it wa s not a young c

22 . the fat, and ] read with Sam. ‘ the fat , (even)’: the fat tail, as Leviticus 3:9 ; Leviticus 7:3 shew, was part of the fat of the animal. So Di. (on Leviticus 8:25 ), Bä. &c. the fat tail ] Leviticus 3:9 ; Leviticus 7:3 ; Leviticus 8:25 ; Leviticus 9:19 †; and probably to be restored in 1 Samuel 9:24 (for the ungrammatical ‘that which was upon it’). What is meant is the large tail of certain species of sheep, still bred in Palestine, and elsewhere, which was esteemed a delicacy. The tail is often so heavy as to need the support of a little cart (Hdt. iii. 113; EB. iv. 4441: see ill. in Jewish Encycl. xi. 50). the caul ] the appendix , as v. 13. the right thigh ] so rightly; not shoulder (RVm. = AV.). In the ordinary peace-offering this was the perquisite of the officiating priest ( Leviticus 7:32 f.); here it is burnt ultimately ( v. 25) upon the altar. The other parts mentioned were burnt regularly on the altar ( Leviticus 3:9-11 ). a ram of installation ] lit. ‘of filling ’ ( sc. of hands): cf. the cognate verb in v. 9. ‘Consecration’ is not sufficiently distinctive. So vv. 26, 27, 31, 34; in the ║║, Leviticus 8:22 ; Leviticus 8:28-29 ; Lev Exo 8:31; Leviticus 8:33 ; and Leviticus 7:37 †. 22–25 . Symbolical investiture of the priests with authority to offer sacrifice. Select portions of the offerings to be placed on their open hands, waved, as they lie there, forwards and backwards before the altar, and finally burnt upon it ( Leviticus 8:25-28 ).