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That the mercies of God oblige us to present ourselves to him, Ro 12:1.
When we present ourselves before the Lord we must present our offerings, devoting to God with ourselves all we have and can do.
Both we and our offerings must be presented before the Lord by the priest that made us clean, even our Lord Jesus, else neither we nor they can be accepted.
12 And the priest shall take one he lamb, and offer him for a trespass
offering, and the log of oil, and wave them for a wave offering before the Lord:
13 and he shall slay the lamb in the place where he shall kill the sin
offering and the burnt offering, in the holy place: for as the sin offering is the priest’s, so is the trespass offering: it is most holy:
14 and the priest shall take some of the blood of the trespass offering,
and the priest shall put it upon the tip of the right ear of him that is to be cleansed, and upon the thumb of his right hand, and upon the great toe of his right foot.
Three lambs the cleansed leper was to bring, with a meat-offering, and a log of oil, which was about half a pint. Now,
1. Most of the ceremony peculiar to this case was about the trespass-offering, the lamb for which was offered first, Le 14:12. And, besides the usual rites with which the trespass-offering was offered, some of the blood was to be put upon the ear, and thumb, and great toe, of the leper that was to be cleansed (Le 14:14), the very same ceremony that was used in the consecration of the priests, Le 8:23,24. It was a mortification to them to see the same purification necessary for them that was for a leper. The Jews say that the leper stood without the gate of the tabernacle and the priest within, and thus the ceremony was performed through the gate, signifying that now he was admitted with other Israelites to attend in the courts of the Lord's house again, and was as