ment with him, and to let him go for a scapegoat into the wilderness. 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: 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. Lev. xvi. 8-10, 21, 22. The law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, He was wounded for our for our iniquities: the chastransgressions, he was bruised tisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed. All we like sheep have gone astray and the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.-Is. liii. 5, 6. He was numbered with the transgressors; and he bare the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.-Is. liii. 12. can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect. For then would they not have ceased to be offered? For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins. But this man (Christ Jesus), after he had offered one sacrifice for sins, for ever sat down on the right hand of God; from henceforth expecting till his enemies be made his footstool.Heb. x. 1, 2, 4, 12, 13. MATT. XXVI. 17-30. 17. Now the first day of the feast of unleavened bread, the disciples came to Jesus, saying unto him, Where wilt thou that we prepare for thee to eat the Passover? 18. And he said, Go into the city to such a a man, and say unto him, The Master saith, My time is at hand; I will keep the Passover at thy house with my disciples. The Paschal Feast of remembrance was instituted the night before the deliverance from Egypt. The feast of the Lord's Supper was appointed the night before our deliverance from our iniquities. One commemorated redemption from Egyptian bondage, the other a better redemption from the bondage of sin. And surely never did there occur any meeting so memorable upon earth, when all the circumstances attending it are taken into consideration. This little company were now assembled to partake for the last time of the Paschal Supper, kept sacred by the Jews for so many generations. They were to eat the Paschal Lamb that evening for the last time before 19. And the disciples its meaning should be accom plished in the death of Him, did as Jesus had ap-who, as the Lamb of God, pointed them; and they made ready the Pass over. without spot or blemish, was to take away the sin of the whole world. 20. Now when the even was come, he sat down with the twelve. 21. And as they did eat, he said, Verily I say unto you, that one of you shall betray me. sorrowful, 22. And they were exceeding and began every one of them to say unto him, Lord, Is it I? 23. And he answered and said, He that dippeth his hand with me in the dish, the same shall betray me. 24. The Son of man goeth as it is written of hima but woe unto that man by whom the Son of man is betrayed! it had been good for that man if he had not been born.b One is your Master, even Christ; and all ye are brethren.-Matt. xxiii. 8. Instead of being debarred, as of old, from a near approach, we have boldness to enter into the holiest.—Heb. xii. O let every one of us bear this in mind. The twelve did not betray our Lord, but they all forsook Him. Their consciences were not easy. Is it I? Is it I? "counting one by one to find out the account."-Eccl. vii. 27. David said, if ye be come to betray me to mine enemies, seeing there is no wrong in mine hands, the God of our Fathers look thereon, and rebuke it. (David a type of Christ.)—1 Ch. xii. 17. a My strength is dried up like a potsherd, and my tongue cleaveth to my jaws, and thou hast brought me into the dust of death.-Ps. xxii. 15. He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and hid as it were our faces from acquainted with grief: and we him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.—Is. liii. 3. O Earth! Earth! Earth! hear the word of the Lord. Write ye this man childless, a man that shall not prosper in 25. Then Judas, his days.— Jer. xxii. 29, 30. which betrayed him, answered and Master, is it I? said unto him, Thou hast said.a it 26. And as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and blessed it, and brake it, and gave to the disciples, and said, Take, eat: this is my body.b 27. And he took the cup, and gave thanks, and gave it to them, saying, Drink ye all b Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared me.— - Heb. x. 5. Then said I, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.-Heb. x. 7, 10. CO let us not be content, after this example, with a careless grace before we eat, a few words hastily and unthankfully spoken. Let us feel that in all things we are fed with His blessings. d A testament is of force after men are dead: it is of no strength at all while the testator liveth. Neither the first testament was dedicated without blood; and without shedding of blood there is no remission. But now once in the end of the world hath he (Christ) appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself, once offered to bear the sins of of many.-Heb. ix. 17, 18, 22, 26, 28. e The Lord of Hosts shall make unto all people a feast of fat things, of wines on the lees well refined.—Is. xxv. 6. |