Leviticus 16:3-34 Thus shall Aaron come into the holy place: with a young bullock for a sin offering, and a ram for a burnt offering.… In the country of Arabia, where almost all trees are savoury, and frankincense and myrrh are even as common firewood, styrax is sold at a dear rate, though it be a wood of unpleasant smell, because experience proveth it to be a present remedy to recover their smell, who before had lost it. We all of us have lived in the pleasures of sin, have our senses stuffed and debilitated, if not overcome; and the best remedy against this malady will be the smelling to styrax, the unsavoury and unpleasing smell of our former corruptions; thus David's sin was ever before him, and St. (as Possidonius noteth), a little before his death, caused the penitential psalms to be written about his bed, which he still looking upon, out of a bitter remembrance of his sins, continually wept, giving not over long before he died. This practice will work repentance not to be repented of. (J. Spencer.) Parallel Verses KJV: Thus shall Aaron come into the holy place: with a young bullock for a sin offering, and a ram for a burnt offering. |
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