John Gill's Exposition on Leviticus 7:5

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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And the priest shall burn them upon the altar, etc.] Fat taken off of the several parts before mentioned, and the kidneys: which were to be [for] an offering made by fire unto the Lord; and was acceptable to him, being typical of the offering of Christ, which is a sweet smelling savour, bearing the fire of divine wrath in the room and stead of his people: it [is] the trespass [offering]; an offering for a trespass committed, to make atonement for it; and this part of it, the burning of the fat, was properly the offering to the Lord, all the rest were the priest’s, as follows.

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