Afflict Age-during Alien Birth Deny Either Everlasting Foreigner Forever Home-born Humble Israelites Lands Manner Midst Month Native Native-born Order Ordinance Permanent Pleasure Seventh Sojourner Sojourneth Sojourning Sojourns Sort Souls Statute Stranger Tenth Whether Yourselves
16:29 And [this] shall be a statute for ever unto you: [that] in the {i} seventh month, on the tenth [day] of the month, ye shall {k} afflict your souls, and do no work at all, [whether it be] one of your own country, or a stranger that sojourneth among you:
(i) Which was Tisri, part September and part October.
(k) Meaning, by abstinence and fasting, Nu 29:7.
16:29 The seventh month - Answering part to our September and part to our October; when they had gathered in all their fruits, and were most at leisure for God's service: This time God chose for this and other feasts, herein graciously condescending to men's necessities and conveniences. This feast began in the evening of the ninth day, and continued till the evening of the tenth. Your souls - Yourselves, both your bodies, by abstinence from food and other delights, and your minds by grief for former sins, which though bitter, yet is voluntary in all true penitents, who are therefore here said to afflict themselves, or to be active in the work.
16:15-34 Here are typified the two great gospel privileges, of the remission of sin, and access to God, both of which we owe to our Lord Jesus. See the expiation of guilt. Christ is both the Maker and the Matter of the atonement; for he is the Priest, the High Priest, that makes reconciliation for the sins of the people. And as Christ is the High Priest, so he is the Sacrifice with which atonement is made; for he is all in all in our reconciliation to God. Thus he was figured by the two goats. The slain goat was a type of Christ dying for our sins; the scape-goat a type of Christ rising again for our justification. The atonement is said to be completed by putting the sins of Israel upon the head of the goat, which was sent away into a wilderness, a land not inhabited; and the sending away of the goat represented the free and full remission of their sins. He shall bear upon him all their iniquities. Thus Christ, the Lamb of God, takes away the sin of the world, by taking it upon himself, Joh 1:29. The entrance into heaven, which Christ made for us, was typified by the high priest's entrance into the most holy place. See Heb 9:7. The high priest was to come out again; but our Lord Jesus ever lives, making intercession, and always appears in the presence of God for us. Here are typified the two great gospel duties of faith and repentance. By faith we put our hands upon the head of the offering; relying on Christ as the Lord our Righteousness, pleading his satisfaction, as that which alone is able to atone for our sins, and procure us a pardon. By repentance we afflict our souls; not only fasting for a time from the delights of the body, but inwardly sorrowing for sin, and living a life of self-denial, assuring ourselves, that if we confess our sins, God is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. By the atonement we obtain rest for our souls, and all the glorious liberties of the children of God. Sinner, get the blood of Christ effectually applied to thy soul, or else thou canst never look God in the face with any comfort or acceptance. Take this blood of Christ, apply it by faith, and see how it atones with God.
Afflict Alien Birth Country Either Everlasting Foreigner Forever Home-Born Humble Israelites Lasting Manner Month Native Native-Born Order Ordinance Permanent Pleasure Seventh Sojourneth Sort Souls Statute Stranger Tenth Whether Work Yourselves
Afflict Alien Birth Country Either Everlasting Foreigner Forever Home-Born Humble Israelites Lasting Manner Month Native Native-Born Order Ordinance Permanent Pleasure Seventh Sojourneth Sort Souls Statute Stranger Tenth Whether Work Yourselves
