ected for ever them that are sanctified."
Chaps. 9:11-14, 25, 26; 10:10-14.

But this doctrine respecting the typical character of the Levitical
sacrifices is not restricted to the epistle to the Hebrews. The New
Testament is full of it. John the Baptist, the Saviour's forerunner,
announced him as "the Lamb of God which taketh away the sin of the
world." John 1:29. Whether we render, as in the margin of our version,
"which _beareth_ the sin of the world," or, as in the text, "which
_taketh away_ the sin of the world," the words contain the idea of a
_propitiatory_ sacrifice, or, which amounts to the same thing, an
_expiatory_ sacrifice; since it is by expiating our sin that Christ
propitiates the Father. By bearing the sin of the world Christ expiates
it, and thus takes it away. Thus he is "the propitiation for our sins,
and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world." 1 John
2:2.

The Saviour himself announced his purpose to die for his people: "I lay
down my life for the sheep." "Therefore doth my Father love me because I
lay down my life, that I might take it again. No man taketh it from me,
but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have
power to take it again. This commandment have I received of my Father."
John 10:15, 17, 18. And lest any should think that he died simply in the
character of a martyr, he elsewhere explains that "the Son of man came
not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a
ransom for many"--more literally, "a ransom instead of many" (Matt.
20:28; Mark 10:45), where the sacrificial and vicarious nature of our
Lord's death is explicitly affirmed.

But it was after our Lord's resurrection that the sacrificial and
propitiatory character of his death was most fully revealed. We have
seen the view taken of it in the epistle to the Hebrews. With this the
other writers of the New Testament are in harmony. Jesus Christ is the
great sufferer foretold in the fifty-third chapter of Isaiah, who "was
wounded for our transgressions, bruised for our iniquities: the
chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are
healed;" upon whom the Lord "laid the iniquity of us all;" who was
brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers
is dumb, so he opened not his mouth; whose soul God made "an offering
for sin;" who "was numbered with the transgressors," and "bare the sins
of many, and made intercession for the tran