The mortifying of our corrupt affections and lusts, and the burning up of them by the fire of divine grace, Col. iii. 5 . Then we are truly thankful for former mercies, and prepared to receive further mercy, when we part with our sins, and have our minds cleared from all sensuality by the spirit of judgment and the spirit of burning, Isa. If he offer a lamb for his offering, then shall he offer it before the L ORD . And if his offering be a goat, then he shall offer it before the L ORD . It shall be a perpetual statute for your generations throughout all your dwellings, that ye eat neither fat nor blood.
Directions are here given concerning the peace-offering, if it was a sheep or a goat.
Some observe from this that, be a thing ever so contemptible, God can make it honourable, by applying it to his service. Thus would God preserve the honour of that which was sacred to himself. The blood was universally forbidden likewise, for the same reason that the fat was, because it was God's part of every sacrifice. He that glories, let him glory in the Lord, and to his praise let all the blood be poured out.