offered for himself,
and for the errors of the people: the Holy Ghost this signifying, that
the way into the holiest of all was not yet made manifest, while as the
first tabernacle was yet standing." Heb. 9:7, 8. By parity of reason,
the principle holds good in respect to the exclusion of the people from
the outer sanctuary. We are informed, accordingly, that when Christ
cried upon the cross with a loud voice, "It is finished," and gave up
the ghost, "the vail of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the
bottom." Matt. 27:50, 51; Mark 15:37, 38; Luke 23:45, 46. By this was
signified that now the way of access to God was opened through Christ's
blood to all believers; so that they constitute a spiritual priesthood,
having access to God within the vail without the help of any earthly
mediation, that they may there "offer up spiritual sacrifices,
acceptable to God by Jesus Christ." Heb. 7:25; 10:19, 20; 1 Pet. 2:5, 9;
Rev. 1:6.

(3.) The typical character of the tabernacle appears very strikingly in
the ceremonies of the great day of atonement. Lev. chap. 16. After the
high-priest had first offered a sin-offering for himself, and sprinkled
its blood in the inner sanctuary upon and before the mercy-seat seven
times, he brought the two goats that had been appointed for the
expiation of the people, one for a sin-offering, the other for a
scape-goat, the office of each being determined by lot. When he had
slain the goat of the sin-offering, he carried its blood into the most
holy place, and sprinkled it also seven times upon and before the
mercy-seat, to "make an atonement for the holy place, because of the
uncleanness of the children of Israel, and because of their
transgressions in all their sins (ver. 16)." Then it was directed that
the live goat should be brought: "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 into a land not inhabited; and he shall let go
the goat in the wilderness." Ver. 21, 22. By this double ceremonial was
signified, first, that Christ should _expiate_ our sins by his own
blood; secondly, that through this expiation he should _bear_ them in
his own person, and thus _remove_ them far away from us. The