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REV. CHANCELLOR LIAS^ M.A., ON 



the critics to justify this claim.* The "conservative'' critic 

 maintains that this Priestly Code displays a miraculous insight 

 into the Divine Scheme of Propitiation, as revealed by the Saviour 

 in His Kedeeming work. As the " Code " in question was 

 demonstrably not written later than the Crucifixion, it is cer- 

 tainly for the Germanizing critic to explain the marvellous 

 prevision of its author. The prevision was shown in the fact 

 that the sacrifices appointed were (1) An offering of the whole 

 victim (Lev. i), typifying an offering of the whole life and being 

 of One consumed by a Divine Power of Love ; (2) (Lev. iii) of 

 a peace or thanksgiving sacrifice in which only a part of the 

 victim was offered and which was partaken of by the offerer ; 

 (3) (Lev. iv-vii, 10) of a sin or trespass offering, one 

 peculiar feature of which was the burning of the body of 

 the victim outside the camp, typifying the destruction of 

 the sin to be atoned for ; (4) (Exod. xii) the sacrifice of a lamb 

 without blemish and eating the flesh of the sacrifice ; (5) (Lev. ii) 

 a meal offering, which seem^s to indicate that sacrifices were 

 either acceptable to God, or necessary, or both, which did not 

 involve the death of a victim. All these various views of the 

 Sacrifice of Propitiation offered hy their Master, are found 

 combined in the writings of the contemporary disciples of the 

 Lord, and included in the authoritative hooks handed down in the 

 Church from the beginning. 



3. In the second of two letters addressed by St. Paul to the 

 first Church to which he ever wrote, the following words occur if 

 " But we ought to thank God always about you, brethren 

 beloved by the Lord, because God took you from the beginning 

 unto salvation (or, safety), in sanctification of spirit (or, the 

 Spirit), and faith of truth (which may mean trust that the 

 Apostle's message was true), unto which he also called us through 

 our Gospel, unto an acquisition (Gr., anything acquired by a 

 process) of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ. Well, then, 

 brethren, stand, and hold fast the traditions which ye were 

 taught, either by word or our Epistle ; but may the Lord Jesus 

 Christ Himself, and God our Father, Who loved us and gave 

 us eternal encouragement and a good hope in favour {i.e., the 

 favour in which the genuine members of the visible Church 



* See Professor Orr, The Bible Under Trial, IV. " Settled Results " 

 in Criticism. 



t I translate them from the original, as they are so remarkable there. 



