Verse 16
16. Atonement for the holy place The holy of holies is viewed as polluted by the impurities of the people and by the imperfect priesthood, and therefore it needs the cleansing blood of sprinkling.
Uncleanness Not depravity or inbred sin, but ceremonial impurity.
Transgressions Actual sins entailing guilt were not pardoned but passed over. Romans 3:25, margin. “The great annual ceremonies of expiation, though powerless to remove spiritual uncleanness, and securing no actual pardon, had this effect, that every man was free to enter the tabernacle and appeal to the divine mercy. They removed whatever external hinderances might have otherwise excluded the sinful nation from the external service of God. They sanctified “to the purifying of the flesh.” Dall. See Hebrews 9:13.
The tabernacle of the congregation The priests’ apartment without the vail. The manner of its purification may be inferred from Leviticus 4:6-7. See note.
Remaineth Dwells.
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