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nations and languages; "Lord of all," Priest of all, Prophet orteacher of all.In the type of the Priest's consecration, we saw Aaron and his sonsrepresenting Jesus and his body as "new creatures," and a bullockrepresenting their humanity; but in the type now to be considered,we find Aaron alone representing the entire Anointed One (headand body), and two different sacrifices, a bullock and a goat, arehere used to represent the separateness, yet similarity in suffering ofthe Body and its Head, as the "Sin-offering." The bullockrepresented Jesus at the age of thirty years--the PERFECT MANwho gave himself and died on our behalf. The High Priest, as wehave already seen, represents the "new" nature of Jesus, theanointed head, and also all whom God foreknew as members of hisbody. The distinction which is here made between the human andthe "new creature" should be clearly understood and remembered."The man Christ Jesus who gave himself" at thirty years of age,was he who was previously rich (of a higher nature), but who forour sakes became poor; that is, became a man, that he might givethe ransom for men --a perfect man's life. 1 Cor. 15:21.Since the penalty of man's sin was death, he must become a man, be"made flesh," or he never could redeem man. A man had sinned,and the penalty was death, and if Jesus would pay the penalty hemust be of the same nature, (but undefiled, separate from sin,) anddie, that mankind might in due time be liberated from death. To dothis, the man Jesus made sacrifice "of all that he had"--glory as aperfect man, honor as a perfect man could claim it, and finally lifeas a man. And this was all he had, (except God's promises of a newnature and the hopes which those promises generated) havingexchanged his spiritual being or existence for the human which hemade "a Sin-offering" as typified by the bullock.But since to be our ransom his humanity must take our place indeath, that humanity can never again be restored. If it were, we theredeemed would again come under the dominion of death. Butthanks be to God, it remains a sacrifice forever, and we are foreverfree from Adamic guilt and death. If then, the Father would everconfer upon Jesus any honor, glory or life as a reward for hisobedience even unto death, it must be a glory, honor and life onsome other plane of being than the human, so as not to interferewith our ransom.Such was the promise of Jehovah to him, viz., that he would highlyexalt him above the human plane, and above his pre-humancondition; above all angels, principalities and powers, to his ownright hand, (condition of chief favor, next to Jehovah,) a partaker ofimmortality --the Divine nature. For these and other joys set beforehim, Jesus endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set downat the right hand of the Majesty on high. Heb. 1:3.The new nature which was received instead of the human, and as areward for its sacrifice, is what is here typified by the Priest. While