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This Epistle bears no name of author, or designation
of church. But it needs neither. In every sentence we can detect the Authorship
of the Holy Ghost: and feel that it has a message not to one age, but to
all; not to one community, but to the universal Church.
We do not therefore discuss questions which are
amply treated in every commentary; but set ourselves at once to derive
those great spiritual lessons which are enshrined in these sublime words.
And probably there is no better way of vindicating
the authority of the Pentateuch than by showing that it lay at the basis
of the teaching of the early Church; and that especially the Book of Leviticus
was the seed-plot of New Testament Theology.
There are two strong tendencies flowing around us
in the present day: the one, to minimize the substitutionary aspect of
the death of Christ; the other, to exaggerate the importance of mere outward
rite. To each of these the study of this great Epistle is corrective. We
are taught that our Lord's death was a Sacrifice. We are taught also that
we have passed from the realm of shadows into that of realities.
These chapters are altogether inadequate for the
treatment of so vast a theme; but such as they are, they are sent forth,
in dependence on the Divine Blessing, in the fervent hope that they may
serve to make more clear and plain to those who would find and enter it,
the Way into the Holiest of all.