In considering the Jewish sacrificial system, it is important to distinguish the symbolical from the typical value of the sacrifices. The former could scarcely be quite unnoticed by the offerers; but the latter was only gradually made plain, was, probably, never very generally seen, and is a great deal clearer to us, in the light of Christ, the Antitype, than it could ever have been before His coming. As symbols, the sacrifices expressed great eternal truths as to the spiritual worship and communion, its hindrances, requisites, manner, and blessings. They were God’s picture-book for those children in religious development. As types, they shadowed the work of Jesus Christ and its results.
From: Expositions of Holy Scripture, comment on Leviticus 1:1-9.
