If the priest that is anointed do sin according to the sin of the people; then let him bring for his sin, which he hath sinned, a young bullock without blemish unto the LORD for a sin offering.
KJV
Hebrew original
Louis Segond 1910
Si c'est le sacrificateur ayant reçu l'onction qui a péché et a rendu par là le peuple coupable, il offrira à l'Eternel, pour le péché qu'il a commis, un jeune taureau sans défaut, en sacrifice d'expiation.
KJV
If the priest that is anointed do sin according to the sin of the people; then let him bring for his sin, which he hath sinned, a young bullock without blemish unto the LORD for a sin offering.
Philo Judaeus
De Specialibus Legibus (lib. i‑iv)
.) 23 οὖν om. H (Turn.) 2 Lev. 7,2 11 Lev. 7,5 16 Lev. cap. 4. cf. Ioseph. Ant. lud. III § 230232 23 Lev. 4,3. 13. 14. ζῴῳ — μόσχον γὰρ ἀνάγεσθαι περὶ ἑκατέρου προστέτακται —, τὰ δὲ τοῦ ἄρχοντος ἐλάττονι μέν, ἄρρενι δὲ καὶ τούτῳ—χίμαρος γάρ ἐστι τὸ ἱερεῖον —, τὰ δὲ τοῦ ἰδιώτου κα…
Philo Judaeus
De Specialibus Legibus (lib. i‑iv)
ταῦτα διάταξις· „ἐὰν“ φησίν „ὁ ἀρχιερεὺς ἄκων ἁμάρτῃ,“ καὶ προστίθησιν „ὥστε τὸν λαὸν ἁμαρτεῖν" (cf. Lev. 4, 3), μόνον οὐκ ἄντικρυς ἀναδιδάσκων, ὅτι ὁ πρὸς ἀλήθειαν ἀρχιερεὺς καὶ μὴ ψευδώνυμος ἀμέτοχος ἁμαρτημάτων ἐστίν, εἰ δ’ ὀλισθήσοι ποτέ, πείσεται τοῦτο οὐ δι’ αὑτόν, ἀλλὰ διὰ…
Thomas Aquinas
Summa Theologica
a she-goat for the sin of some private individual, a calf for the sin of a priest, as we gather from Lev. 4:3,23,28. But Christ is compared to none of these, but to the lamb, according to Jer. 11:19 : "I was as a meek lamb, that is carried to be a victim." Therefore it seems that…
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