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Identifying with the Substitute
Commentators explain that the person who sinned, not the priest, would lay their hand on the animal's head. This physical act symbolized a personal confession and the transfer of their guilt to the sacrifice, which would then be killed in their place. This powerfully illustrates the concept of substitutionary atonement.
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Leviticus
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Charles Ellicott
On Leviticus 4:29–31
19th Century
Bishop
And he shall lay. —The ritual prescribed in these verses is the same as that ordained in the case of the sin offering of the princ…
John Gill
On Leviticus 4:29
17th Century
Pastor
And he shall lay his hand upon the head of the sin
offering
His right hand, as the Ta…
Matthew Henry
On Leviticus 4:27–35
17th Century
Minister
Here is the law of the sin-offering for a common person. To be able to plead, when charged with sin, that we did it ignorantly and through the surp…