OUTRAM than in most writers of his age, the Translator has taken the liberty of using a little compression; but, he believes it will be found, without omitting any of the ideas of the original. The quotations from the rabbies, fathers, and classics, he has thought it sufficient to present to the reader in English, without inserting the originals, except in some particular cases which required their insertion. A few sentences which interrupted the continuity of the discourse, are removed from the text, and thrown into notes; and two or three passages are left untranslated, for a reason which must be too obvious to need explanation. It can scarcely be necessary to remark, that in avowing a high estimate of the merit of the work, and an acquiescence in its general argument, the Translator must not be understood as professing an entire approbation of every sentiment it contains. He has occasionally ventured to state his difference of opinion in a note : and he is responsible for all those notes which are preceded by the letters TR. He concludes by expressing his hopes, that the usefulness of the work will be extended by the form in which it is now published, and that it will be the means of establishing many in that doctrine, which, though regarded by some as a stumbling block, and by others rejected as foolishness, has in all ages approved itself to the understandings and hearts of multitudes as truly divine. LONDON, April 15, 1817. ERRATUM. Page 191, last line but one. For north-eastern read south-eastern. CONTENTS. Page The Peace Offerings, and those which may be classed with Peace Offerings, such as the Firstlings and the Tithes .... 128 The Piacular Victims called I'respass Offerings. The Paschal Sacrifice........................................ 149 The Sacrifices of the Whole Congregation of Israel ........ 164 Certain Sacrificial Rites; particularly, the Offering and Waving of the Victims, the Imposition of Hands upon their Heads, and the Prayers connected with that Ceremony o... 173 The Killing of the Victims, the Sprinkling of the Blood, the Flaying, and the Manner in which the Victims were to be Some Victims to be burned without the Camp: others to be caten .......... ........................ ....... 206 The Nature and Design of a Sacred Type. Which of the Page Proofs that the Jews considered their Sacrifices as having respect to God, and that the Heathens believed their Sacri- That Piacular Victims, by a Vicarious Punishment, expiated those Sins on Account of which they were sacrificed, shown to have been the Opinion of the ancient Christians and Jews, The general Business of Christ's Priesthood ; the Order to which it belongs ; und the 'Things by which he was especially CHAPTER JI. Proofs that the Scriptures attribute to Christ a real Priest. hood, properly so called ........... To what Class of Sacrifices the Sacrifice of Christ belongs, and |