Leviticus 5:14-15 - Exposition

If a soul commit a trespass. Two previous conditions were required of the Israelite before he might offer his trespass offering.

1 . He must make compensation for any harm or injury that he had done.

2 . He must give to the injured party a fine equal to one-fifth ( i.e; two-tenths) of the value of the thing of which he had deprived him, if the wrong was capable of being so estimated. In performing his sacrifice, he had

while the priest

The special lesson of the trespass offering is the need of satisfaction as well as of oblation, and thus it supplies a representation of one feature in the great Antitype, who was the "full, perfect and sufficient sacrifice, oblation, and satisfaction for the sins of the whole world." Through ignorance (see note on Le Leviticus 4:2 ).