It is important, in reference to the meaning of the Day of Atonement, to observe the order of the rites as they are described in these verses.

And there shall be no man. —While the high priest was performing this process of cleansing, no one, whether priest or Isr…

Even this altar, to which we bring our prayers and our thankofferings, has sin upon it. There is some defilement even in the saltwater of our penit…

And there shall be no man. The driving away of all men from approaching the tabernacle during the act of atonement is a sort of punishment…

And there shall be no man in the tabernacle of the congregation. Not any of the priests, as Aben Ezra, no, not in the hol…

Here are typified the two great gospel privileges: the remission of sin and access to God, both of which we owe to our Lord Jesus. Consider the exp…