And they shall eat those things wherewith the atonement
was
made
For the sins of Aaron and his sons, for they were men of
infirmity, and needed sacrifice for sin themselves; and herein
Christ their antitype excelled them, that he had no sin of his
own, and needed not to offer first for them, and then for the
sins of others, as Aaron and his sons, the types of him, did; and
their eating of the sacrifice for atonement points at the
receiving of the atonement of Christ's sacrifice by faith, and
the enjoyment of it and the blessings following on it:
to consecrate and to sanctify them;
that they might be filled and fitted, and set apart and devoted
to the office of the priesthood, and minister in it:
but a stranger shall not eat [thereof], because they are
holy;
meaning not one of another nation, but of another family, though
an Israelite; the Targum of Jonathan renders it, a profane and
common person, a layman, one that was not a priest; who, though
he was of the seed of Israel, yet not being of the seed of Aaron,
as Aben Ezra interprets it, he might not eat of the above things,
because they were devoted to holy uses; and therefore none but
such who were sanctified or set apart to sacred service might
partake of them.