PSALM 40

TEHILLIM 40

2 He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings.

A breach had been made in it. Its "loins were filled with a loathsome disease; and there was no soundness in its flesh" (Psal. 38:7). This was its condition while prostrate and hidden in the noisome pit (Psal. 40:2) beneath the turf.

Eureka - ' The Title'

7 Then said I, Lo, I come: in the volume of the book it is written of me,

God arranged the yearly atonement, in order that the priests might put away from themselves the accumulated sins and iniquities of the nation. Here again the imperfect and typical blood of bullocks and goats had to be offered to God, the former for the priests, the latter for the people.—(Lev. 16.)

Aaron had first to offer for his own sins and then for the people's, and also with the blood of both offerings, he had to make atonement for the holy place, the tabernacle of the congregation and the altar;

"because of the uncleanness of the children of Israel and because of their transgressions in all their sins."

This done, he took the live goat, laid both his hands upon the head of the live goat, and confessed 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 then sent him away by the hand of a fit man into the wilderness; and the goat bore upon him all their iniquities into a land not inhabited (margin, a land of separation)—(ver. 21:22.)

These "iniquities," "transgressions," and "sins" Aaron had taken unto himself as the nation's sinbearer during the year; hence he had to lay on hands and confess; and accordingly he had to kill both sacrifices. Thus sin bearing and sin putting away went on from year to year, because of infirmity and death in the priesthood.

"The law made nothing perfect."

A perfect arrangement for the putting away of sins was accomplished in Jesus the anointed. Of him Paul says in relation to the yearly atonement under the law, and its insufficiency as a permanent means of putting away sin,

"Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared me."—(Heb. 10:5.)

Paul had already shewn what the nature of that "body" required to be. Under the law God required, and provided a human sin-bearer, covered with holy garments and anointed with oil.

Both garments and oil were made according to His directions, and were not to be used for any other purpose on pain of death. So it behoved Jesus to be qualified in the same for his priestly work. He must be human, and provided with a sin-covering from God, with which He shall be satisfied.

The Christadelphian, Apr 1874

8 I delight to do thy will, O my Elohim: yea, thy law is within my heart.

‎‮"‬The‮ ‬Spirit‮ ‬of‮ ‬Yahweh,‮" ‬said‮ ‬David,‮ "‬spake‮ ‬by‮ ‬me,‮ ‬and‮ ‬his‮ ‬word‮ ‬was‮ ‬in‮ ‬my‮ ‬tongue

‎‮...‬Thus spake the Eternal Spirit of Wisdom, who was brought forth before the earth had being, and who was from the beginning by Yahweh, as one brought up with him. Did not Yahweh, then, sustain the relation of a Father to the Spirit; called "eternal," because, previous to the beginning, it was in him, concentrated and condensed in his Divine Substance, not having then as yet irradiated, or been brought forth therefrom?

Yea, the Spirit of Wisdom is the Son or Offspring of God,

"by whom all things were created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions, or principalities, or powers; all things were created by him and for him: and he is before all things, and by him all things consist."

Herald of the Kingdom and Age to Come, May 1855.