A Guide to the Study of the Pentateuch Author:John Thompson General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1839 Original Publisher: s.n. Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select fro... more »m more than a million books for free. Excerpt: QUESTIONS THE BOOK OF LEVITICUS. INTRODUCTION. 1. What are the Greek and Latin titles of this book, and their derivation ? Why is it so called, and what is the general scope of the book ? 2. Quote particular passages in other books of Scripture, wherein this book is expressly cited as the work of Moses. What space of tune does the history in it embrace ? Whence were the laws contained in it pronounced ? In what year of the world, and in what year after the exodus of Israel from Egypt? 3. What were the chief uses of the ceremonial ritual ? - Instance some of the ordinances of the law, which were " shadows of good things to come "; and quote passages from the N. T. in which they are so set forth. Which of the epistles particularly Burnishes us with a clue to the end and meaning of those ancient types and ceremonies ? QUESTIONS ON THE BOOK OF LEVITICUS. 81 4. Shew from expressions in the Pentateuch itself, that the Jewish dispensation was not intended to be of perpetual or universal obligation, but only introductory to one not to be confined to the Jews. Shew the same from the Psalms, Prophets, and N. T. 5. Did the Jews themselves understand the spiritual meaning of these ceremonies ? Why, probably, was their transient character not explained at first? Does the fact, that the people who were required to use them, " could not sted- fastly look to the end of them," constitute a real objection to their being considered as types ? 6. How do you reconcile with St. Paul's assertion, " that it is not possible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sin," passages of the la...« less