The first is found in Leviticus 5:6, 7, where the law directs that the poor man may bring two fowls instead of a lamb or a kid; one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering. The priest is explicitly directed to offer the sin offering first, and then the burnt offering.
The second key-text is still more valuable, inasmuch as it opens to us the order of the three classes of offerings. It is found in chap. 8 — the order of offerings at the consecration of Aaron and his sons; the sin offering, the whole burnt offering, and the ram of consecration, which answers to the peace offering.
In other words, the conscience of the offerer was first to be
ceremonially purged from sin to render him acceptable to God before he
could dedicate his entire being to him. After this the self-consecratory
burnt offering is in order; then the peace offering or the meat
offering may be presented, as a medium of communion with Jehovah, who
gives the largest part of the peace offering back to be eaten by the
offerer and his friends in a joyful sacrificial feast. The beautiful
correspondence of these offerings, in this order, to justification,
sanctification, the communion of the Holy Ghost, and the communion of
saints, will be pointed out in the notes.
It is remarkable that
both these key-texts should have escaped the keen eye of Keil, who says
that these laws "contain no rules respecting the order in which they
were to follow one another, when two or more sacrifices were offered
together."
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