Daily archives: 12/06/2020

Reading Leviticus 4:15-18, you will see a close parallel with earlier: 4:4-7 (also in Forgiveness is not ‘cheap’, what is its cost?). In this later section on the unintended sins of the congregation (verse 15-18), the elder began the sacrificial ritual, which was then continued by the Priest. The language of “atonement” is likely a little strange, it’s something we don’t say in that way. It’s a word used far less in New Testament than in the Old. In Leviticus 4:19-21, the word “atonement” acts as a hinge from the ritual of the offering through to the burning the rest […]