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Aaron shall make atonement on its horns once in the year; with the blood of the sin offering of atonement once in the year he shall make atonement for it throughout your generations. It is most holy to Yahweh."
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Prayer is Powered by the Cross
Commentators explain that applying sacrificial blood to the altar of incense (representing prayer) is highly symbolic. It shows that our prayers are only made acceptable to God through the atoning sacrifice of Christ. As scholars like John Calvin and Matthew Henry note, Christ's ongoing intercession for us derives all its power and effectiveness from His suffering and shed blood.
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Exodus
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18th Century
Presbyterian
(Exodus 37:25–28; Exodus 40:26–27). The altar of incense was to be a casing of boards of shittim wood ([Reference Exodus 25…
19th Century
Anglican
Aaron shall make an atonement upon the horns of it once in a year. —This passage seems to determine the sense of Leviticus 16:18, where so…
16th Century
Protestant
And Aaron shall make an atonement. We should observe here the correspondence between the two altars. For, as the Israelites were admonishe…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And Aaron shall make an atonement upon the horns of it once in a year On the day of a…
The altar of incense represented the Son of God in his human nature, and the incense burned on it typified his pleading for his people. The continu…
