fellowship offerings. After the seven-day consecration by burnt offerings and sin offerings, the altar was ready for the celebration of the more festive fellowship offerings where the people partook of some of the meat (see Lev 3). (CSB) is traditionally rendered offerings,” but I prefer offerings.” שְׁלָמִים “peace “communion That seems especially appropriate here. The offering” (עוֹלָה) accented the “burnt vertical dimension, since the entire animal was burned and sent up, as it were, to God as a visible prayer (e.g., Leviticus 1). The were the only sacrifice where a שְׁלָמִים part of the meat was returned to the worshippers for them to eat as a “communion meal,” presumably on the temple precincts (e.g., Lev 7:15–16), and so it stresses the horizontal perspective of God’s people communing together with each other as well as with their Lord (cf. 1 Cor 10:16–17; 11:27, 33–34). (CC) ACCEPT YOU It is an elementary matter of the distinction between Law and – Gospel that must be heard as a verb of grace, not of works. God definitively רָצָה showed his favor and acceptance (Mt 3:17; 12:18; 17:5; Lk 2:40, 52) toward his only Son, Jesus Christ, who offered himself as the one perfect sacrifice that made atonement for all of humanity’s sins—a theme applied in this entire section to the altar by means of the verbs (43:20, 22–23) and atonement” (43:20, 26). חִטֵּא, “absolve” כִּפֵּר, “make On the basis of that sacrifice, and because of the merits of Christ himself, God accepts (Rom 15:7) and looks with favor (Lk 4:19; 2 Cor 6:2; cf. Gal 1:10; 1 Pet 2:19–20) upon all believers in Christ, who are justified through faith alone, and who, like Abraham (Gen 15:6), do not simply follow laws or customs, but offer to him the of faith” “obedience (Rom 1:5; 16:26; see also Romans 4). (cc)
fellowship offerings. After the seven-day consecration by burnt offerings and sin offerings, the altar was ready for the celebration of the more festive fellowship offerings where the people partook of some of the meat (see Lev 3). (CSB) שְׁלָמִים is traditionally rendered “peace offerings,” but I prefer “communion offerings.” That seems especially appropriate here. The “burnt offering” (עוֹלָה) accented the vertical dimension, since the entire animal was burned and sent up, as it were, to God as a visible prayer (e.g., Leviticus 1). The שְׁלָמִים were the only sacrifice where a part of the meat was returned to the worshippers for them to eat as a “communion meal,” presumably on the temple precincts (e.g., Lev 7:15–16), and so it stresses the horizontal perspective of God’s people communing together with each other as well as with their Lord (cf. 1 Cor 10:16–17; 11:27, 33–34). (CC) ACCEPT YOU – It is an elementary matter of the distinction between Law and Gospel that רָצָה must be heard as a verb of grace, not of works. God definitively showed his favor and acceptance (Mt 3:17; 12:18; 17:5; Lk 2:40, 52) toward his only Son, Jesus Christ, who offered himself as the one perfect sacrifice that made atonement for all of humanity’s sins—a theme applied in this entire section to the altar by means of the verbs חִטֵּא, “absolve” (43:20, 22–23) and כִּפֵּר, “make atonement” (43:20, 26). On the basis of that sacrifice, and because of the merits of Christ himself, God accepts (Rom 15:7) and looks with favor (Lk 4:19; 2 Cor 6:2; cf. Gal 1:10; 1 Pet 2:19–20) upon all believers in Christ, who are justified through faith alone, and who, like Abraham (Gen 15:6), do not simply follow laws or customs, but offer to him the “obedience of faith” (Rom 1:5; 16:26; see also Romans 4). (cc)
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