As to the meat offering, we need not enter minutely into it. It was composed, as we know, of that which sprang from _the earth_, and such as aptly shadowed out "the Man Christ Jesus," the frankincense thereon marking the entire devotedness of all the actings of Christ's human nature to God His Father. Nothing was done by Him to meet man's eye, or man's approbation; nothing was done to produce mere effect; no, _all was directly before God_. Whether we trace the footsteps of the Lord Jesus, while, for thirty years, _He was subject_ to His parents at home; or while, for three years, He was engaged in public ministry amongst the Jews--all was alike: all showed forth the pure frankincense that marked Him, in all things, as God's peculiar and devoted servant. We may observe further that this meat offering was _baked_ with oil, and _anointed_ with oil; thus showing forth, I suppose, the incarnate Son of God, who was first "_conceived_ of the Holy Ghost" (Matt. i. 20), and then "_anointed_ with the Holy Ghost" (Matt. iii. 16; Acts x. 38). We now come to speak of the sin offering, and may the Lord graciously refresh our spirits while dwelling for a little on the blessed principles unfolded therein. The sin offering is brought before us in Leviticus iv., from whence we may select one case for our present purpose. "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. _And he shall bring_ the bullock unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation before the Lord, and shall lay his hand upon the bullock's head and kill the bullock before the Lord" (vers. 3, 4).