Holly Bible - KJV with Concise Commentaries by Z Selam - HTML preview
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thus have I done." By this confession he must put the sins of Israel upon the head of the goat; that is, exercising faith upon the divine appointment which constituted such a translation, he must transfer the punishment incurred from the sinners to the sacrifice, which would have been but a jest, nay, an affront to God, if he himself had not ordained it.
21 and Aaron shall lay both his hands upon the head of the live goat,
and confess over him all the iniquities of the children of Israel, and all their transgressions in all their sins, putting them upon the head of the goat, and shall send him away by the hand of a fit man into the wilderness:
22 and the goat shall bear upon him all their iniquities unto a land not
inhabited: and he shall let go the goat in the wilderness.
The goat was then to be sent away immediately by the hand of a fit person pitched upon for the purpose, into a wilderness, a land not inhabited; and God allowed them to make this construction of it, that the sending away of the goat was the sending away of their sins, by a free and full remission: He shall bear upon him all their iniquities, Le 16:22. The losing of the goat was a sign to them that the sins of Israel should be sought for, and not found, Jer 50:20.
23 And Aaron shall come into the tabernacle of the congregation,
and shall put off the linen garments, which he put on when he went into the holy place, and shall leave them there:
The high priest must then put off his linen garments in the tabernacle, and leave them there, the Jews say never to be worn again by himself or any other, for they made new ones every year; and he must bathe himself in water, put on his rich clothes, and then offer both his own and the people's burnt-offerings, Le 16:23,24. When we have the comfort of our pardon God must have the glory of it. If we have the benefit of the sacrifice of atonement, we must not grudge the sacrifices of acknowledgment. And, it should seem, the burning of the fat of the sin-offering was deferred till now (Le 16:25), that it might be consumed with the burnt-offerings.