John Gill's Bible Commentary Ver. 7. And the priest shall put [some] of the blood , etc.] With his finger, which he dipped into it: upon the horns of the altar of sweet incense before the Lord, which is in the tabernacle of the congregation ; this was the golden altar on which incense was offered: it was placed before the vail, on the outside of it, in the holy place, (see Exodus 30:1-6) and the priest, when he put the blood on the horns of it, began at the northeast horn, so to the northwest, then to the southwest, and last to the southeast f92 ; and the priest dipped his finger at every horn, and when he had finished at one horn, he wiped his finger at the edge of the basin, and after that dipped a second time; for what remained of the blood on his finger was not fit to put upon another horn f93 . This rite shows, that the intercession of Christ, signified by the altar of sweet incense, proceeds upon the foot of his blood and sacrifice, ( Revelation 8:3,4) ( 1 John 2:1,2): and shall pour all the blood of the bullock at the bottom of the altar of burnt offering, which is at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation ; this altar stood without the holy place, and the altar of incense within; and after the priest had sprinkled of the blood of the bullock, upon the horns of the altar of incense, what remained he poured at the bottom of the altar of burnt offering; for though it is said “all” the blood, it can mean no more than what was left; wherefore the Vulgate Latin version renders it, “all the remaining blood”: and Jarchi’s explanatory note is, the rest of the blood.
The place where this was poured, according to Maimonides f94 , was the west bottom of the altar; and Gersom on the place observes the same. This denotes the efficacy of Christ’s blood to make atonement for sin, and the reverent esteem it ought to be had in, being precious blood.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 1-12 - Burnt-offerings, meat-offerings, and peace-offerings, had been offere before the giving of the law upon mount Sinai; and in these the patriarchs had respect to sin, to make atonement for it. But the Jew were now put into a way of making atonement for sin, more particularl by sacrifice, as a shadow of good things to come; yet the substance in Christ, and that one offering of himself, by which he put away sin. The sins for which the sin-offerings were appointed are supposed to be ope acts. They are supposed to be sins of commission, things which ough not to have been done. Omissions are sins, and must come into judgment yet what had been omitted at one time, might be done at another; but sin committed was past recall. They are supposed to be sins committe through ignorance. The law begins with the case of the anointed priest It is evident that God never had any infallible priest in his churc upon earth, when even the high priest was liable to fall into sins of ignorance. All pretensions to act without error are sure marks of Antichrist. The beast was to be carried without the camp, and ther burned to ashes. This was a sign of the duty of repentance, which is the putting away sin as a detestable thing, which our soul hates. The sin-offering is called sin. What they did to that, we must do to ou sins; the body of sin must be destroyed, Ro 6:6. The apostle applie the carrying this sacrifice without the camp to Christ, Heb 13:11-13.
Original Hebrew ונתן5414 הכהן3548 מן4480 הדם1818 על5921 קרנות7161 מזבח4196 קטרת7004 הסמים5561 לפני6440 יהוה3068 אשׁר834 באהל168 מועד4150 ואת853 כל3605 דם1818 הפר6499 ישׁפך8210 אל413 יסוד3247 מזבח4196 העלה5930 אשׁר834 פתח6607 אהל168 מועד׃4150
