Thematic Bible: Were offered
Thematic Bible
Sacrifices » Were offered » By the patriarchs
Sacrifices » Were offered » Yearly
Sacrifices » Were offered » In faith of a coming saviour
'Twas by faith that Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he was declared righteous, God himself having testified that he accepted his offering, and after he died for his faith, he was not silent.
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'Twas by faith that Abraham, when put to the trial, offered up Isaac: HE offered up his darling son, to whose posterity the promises were to be made good:
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through faith he celebrated the passover, and sprinkled blood, that the destroying angel might pass by the first-born.
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Sacrifices » Were offered » For the whole nation
Sacrifices » Were offered » After the departure of israel from egypt
Sacrifices » Were offered » Under the mosaic dispensation
For the law being only an allusion to a future dispensation that was more excellent, and not an exact imitation of such a state, cannot by the anniversary sacrifices, which are offered, entirely purify those that present themselves. for then they would not have been repeated, because they who sacrificed being once purified, would not have been conscious of wanting any further atonement for their sins: whereas their annual sacrifices were accompanied with an anniversary commemoration of their sins.