A

'Not at all times'.

Reference to entry into the Sanctuary.

B

3.

An offering for Aaron himself.

C

4.

Holy garments 'put on'.

D1

5.

Two goats and ram.

E1

6.

Bullock for himself.

D2

7 -10.

Two goats (one the 'scapegoat').

E2

11 -14.  Bullock for himself.

seven times

D3

15 -22.  Two goats (one 'let go')

seven times

C

Holy garments 'put off'.

B

24 -28.

An offering for himself, and for the people.

A

29 -34.

'Once a year'.

Reference to making atonement.

The Day of Atonement has always been held to be a very solemn and

searching type of that One Sacrifice, once offered, for sin, by the Lord

Jesus Christ.  Like all types of divine things, we shall find that it utterly

breaks down in some features.  Yet even these are not to be regarded as

faults, but inherent in the very nature of the case.  For example, observe

how, in Hebrews 9, the Holy Spirit lays hold upon several such inadequacies

in type:

'Into the second went the high priest alone once every year, not

without blood, which he offered for himself, and for the errors of the

people' (Heb. 9:7).

'But Christ ... by a greater and more perfect tabernacle ... neither by

the blood of goats and calves, but by His own blood He entered in once

into the holy place' (Heb. 9:11,12).

Here we have heaven itself instead of the tabernacle made with hands;

here we have 'His own blood' instead of the blood of bulls and goats; and

here we have no need for an offering for His own sins, for this High Priest

was holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners.

The immediate cause for the great symbolic rite of the Day of Atonement

was the action of Nadab and Abihu in offering strange fire unto the Lord.

While access to the presence of the Lord is a most blessed privilege of the

redeemed, it must never disregard the essential character of the One

Mediator, unholy familiarity must not be allowed, lest it breed contempt, and