WHAT
IS
HOLINESS?
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precludes the need of any other pro pitiatory offering, because the gift of Christ was a complete atonement including purification and an abundant entrance into the eternal Kingdom of God. sanctification
The doctrine of sanctification has
proofs
in Hebrews
that he
might sanctify
one
of its
"Wherefore
13:12.
people
the
with
surest
esus also, his
own
blood, suffered without the gate." This passage gives the picture of Christ as a typical sin-offering in
which He takes the place of the scapegoat (Lev. 16:10) of Old Testament times and carries the sin of the people into the wilderness of oblivion.
Wesley comments as follows: "Exactly answering those typical sin-offerings, 'suffered without the gate'� Of erusalem, which answered to the old camp of Israel, 'that he might sanctify'� econcile and consecrate to God, 'the people'� Who believe in Him, 'by his own blood'� Not those shadowy sac rifices, which
are now
gives might sanctify Clarke
crate
them
to
a
of
further use."
no
'That he interpretation: That He might conse people'�
similar
the
"
God, and make
an
atonement
for their
sins, He suffered without the gate at erusalem, as the sin-offering was consumed without the camp
when the tabernacle abode in the wilderness.
haps
all
this
was
typical
the whole
of
er
Levitical
system of worship. He left the city, denounced its final destruction, and abandoned it to its fate and suffered without the gate God." In 1 to
that
eter 1:2 there is
previously
to
an
bring
the Gentiles
expression
used in 2
to
very similar Thessalonians 2:13: