Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1872 edition. Excerpt: ... at all, much less by the word xaianiTaapia there used, Exod. 26,34; 30,6; 39,35; 40, 20) = rnW Ez. 43, 14. 17. 20 (the border of the altar which (v. 20) was to be sprinkled with the blood of the sacrifice; as in the Mos. rit., the Caporeth). It can only he regarded as an expansion of this expression when in two passages--Exod. 25,17; 37, 6--tXaatrjoiov is used adjcctively, To iXacxrgi, ov mfcia, where we are told what iB the material of which the mercy seat (ca poreth) is made. (Perhaps, wc may say too that the forms, termed nomina loci, by Curtius, ought to be traced back to adjectives denoting belonging to and ministering to, and their neuters then acquired a place in usage especially as nomina loci.) 1 Chron. 28, 11 also shows that To IX. is used by the LXX, as a name of place; for rfl&Sn JV3 is not translated by olxog rov tXadrtjoCov, which might appear to be a strong tautology; but by olxog rov iiXaafiov. The Caporeth (explained also by Levy, Chald. diet., as place of expiation) is the expiatory covering not only of the ark containing the law, but Exod. 30, 6 of the law itself and serves to receive the atoning blood and to accomplish its object. Not till it is on the Caporeth is it what it is meant to be, propitiation, Lev. 17, 11; 16, 14k 15.--Accordingly iXaarr, Qiov is = rnS3 not only in Heb. 9, 5, but also in Rom. 3, 25. As regards in particular this latter passage, ov (Xv) nqoiSeto b &sbg IXaonjotov, it must be noted that according to Exod. 25, 22 and Lev. 16, 2 the Caporeth is the central seat of the saving presence and gracious revelations of God, so that it need not surprise that Christ is designated IXaarqiov. The Caporeth was so far the principal part of the Holy of Holies that the latter is even termed..."
