If his offering [be] a burnt sacrifice of the
herd
So called, because consumed by fire, see ( Leviticus
6:9 ) even all of it except the skin, and therefore its name
with the Greeks is "a whole burnt offering", as in ( Mark 12:33 ) its name in
Hebrew is (hlwe) , which
comes from a word which signifies to "ascend" or "go up", because
not only it was carried up to the altar by the priest, which was
common to other sacrifices, but being burnt upon it, it ascended
upwards in smoke and vapour; it was typical of Christ's dolorous
sufferings and death, who therein sustained the fire of divine
wrath, and his strength was dried up like a potsherd with it.
Jarchi on ( Leviticus
1:1 ) says, there were in the burnt offerings mysteries of
future things:
let him offer a male;
and not a female, pointing at the Messiah's sex, and his strength
and excellency, the child that was to be born, and the Son to be
given, whose name should be Immanuel:
without blemish;
or [perfect], having no part wanting, nor any part superfluous,
nor any spot upon it, see ( Leviticus
22:19-24 ) denoting the perfection of Christ as man, being in
all things made like unto his brethren, and his having not the
least stain or blemish of sin upon him, either original or
actual, and so could, as he did, offer up himself without spot to
God, ( Hebrews
2:17 ) ( 9:14 ) (
1 Peter
1:19 ) :
and he shall offer it of his own voluntary
will;
not forced or compelled to it, or with any reluctancy, but as a
pure freewill offering; so our Lord Jesus Christ laid down his
life of himself, and freely gave himself an offering and a
sacrifice, and became cheerfully and readily obedient unto death:
at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, before
the Lord;
it was to be done openly and publicly, and in the presence of the
Lord, to whom it was offered up; showing, that Christ's sacrifice
would be offered up to God, against whom we have sinned, by which
his law would be fulfilled, his justice satisfied, and wrath
appeased, and that his death would be public and notorious; see (
Luke
24:18-20 ) .