Leviticus 8 — Church Fathers

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Leviticus 8:1-13

ORDINATION OF AARON AND HIS SONS

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1 And Our Lord spake to Moyses, saying:

2 Take Aaron with his sons, their vestments, and the oil of unction, a calf for sin, two Rams, a basket with azymes,

3 and thou shalt gather all the assembly to the door of the tabernacle. 1 note

4 And Moyses did as our Lord had commanded. And all the multitude being gathered before the door of the tabernacle,

5 he said: This is the word, that our Lord hath commanded to be done.

6 And immediately he offered Aaron & his sons: and when he had washed them,

7 he revested the high-Priest with the strait linen garment, girding him with a bawdrike, & revesting him with the tunic of hyacinth, and over it he put the Ephod, 1 note

8 which he straitening with the girdle, fitted it to the Rationale, wherein was Doctrine and Verity.

9 with the mitre also he covered his head: and upon it, against the forehead, he put the plate of gold consecrated in sanctification, as our Lord had commanded him.

10 He took also the oil of unction, wherewith he anointed the tabernacle, with all the furniture thereof.

11 And sanctifying them, and having sprinkled the altar seven times, he anointed it, and all the vessels thereof, and the laver with the foot thereof he sanctified with the oil.

12 The which pouring upon Aaron's head, he anointed, & consecrated him: 1 note

13 his sons also after he had offered them, he revested with linen tunics and girded them with bawdrikes, and put mitres on them, as our Lord had commanded.

Leviticus 8:14-36

ORDINATION SACRIFICESOCTAVE OF THE ORDINATION

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14 He offered also the calf for sin: and when Aaron and his sons had put their hands upon the head thereof,

15 he did immolate it: drawing the blood, & dipping his finger, touched the horns of the altar round about. Which being expiated, and sanctified, he poured the rest of the blood at the bottom thereof.

16 But the fat that was upon the entrails, and the caul of the liver, & the two little kidneys, with their little tallow he burnt upon the altar:

17 the calf with the skin, and the flesh, and the dung, he burnt without the camp, as our Lord had commanded.

18 He offered also a ram for an holocaust: upon the head whereof when Aaron and his sons had put their hands,

19 he did immolate it, and poured the blood thereof in the circuit of the altar.

20 And cutting the ram itself into pieces, the head thereof, and the joints, and the fat he burnt with fire,

21 having first washed the entrails, & the feet, & the whole ram together he burnt upon the altar, because it was an holocaust of most sweet odour to our Lord, as he had commanded him.

22 He offered also the second ram, for the consecration of Priests: and Aaron and his sons did put their hands upon the head thereof:

23 which when Moyses had immolated, taking of the blood thereof, he touched the tip of Aaron's right ear, and the thumb of his right hand, in like manner also of his foot.

24 He offered also the sons of Aaron: and when of the blood of the ram, being immolated, he had touched the tip of the right ear of every one, and the thumbs of the right hand and foot, the rest he poured on the altar, round about:

25 but the fat, and the rump, and all the fat that covereth the entrails, and the caul of the liver, and the two kidneys with their fat, and with the right shoulder, he separated.

26 And taking out of the basket of azymes, which was before our Lord, a loaf without leaven, and a manchet tempered with oil, and a wafer, he put them upon the fat, and the right shoulder,

27 delivering all to Aaron, and to his sons, Who having lifted them up before our Lord,

28 he took them again of their hands, and burnt them upon the altar of holocaust, because it was the oblation of consecration, for a sweet odour, of the sacrifice to our Lord.

29 And he took of the ram of consecration, the breast for his portion, elevating it before our Lord, as our Lord had commanded him.

30 And taking the ointment, and the blood that was upon the altar, he sprinkled it upon Aaron, and his vestments, & upon his sons and their vestments.

31 And when he had sanctified them in their vestments, he commanded them, saying: Boil the flesh before the door of the tabernacle, and there eat it. Eat ye also the loaves of consecration, that are laid in the basket, as our Lord commanded me, saying: Aaron and his sons shall eat them:

32 and whatsoever shall be left of the flesh, and the loaves, fire shall consume.

33 Out of the door also of the tabernacle you shall not go forth seven days, until the day wherein the time of your consecration shall be expired, for in seven days the consecration is finished:

34 as at this present it hath been done, that the rite of the sacrifice might be accomplished.

35 Day & night shall you tarry in the tabernacle observing the watches of our Lord, lest you die: for so it hath been commanded me.

36 And Aaron, and his sons did all things which our Lord spake by the hand of Moyses.

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Leviticus 8:1-13 2 entries

ORDINATION OF AARON AND HIS SONS

THE WORD CHURCH IN SCRIPTURE.

St. Cyril of Jerusalem (c. 315-386; fl. c. 348) verse 3

Well is the church named ecclesia [assembly], because it calls forth and assembles all men, as the Lord says in Leviticus: Then assemble the whole community at the entrance of the meeting tent. It is worthy of note that this word assemble is used in the Scriptures for the first time^[1] in the passage when the Lord established Aaron in the high priesthood. In Deuteronomy God says to Moses, Assemble the people for me; I will have them hear my words, that they may learn to fear me.^[2] He mentions the name of the church again when he says of the tablets: And on them were inscribed all the words that the Lord spoke to you on the mountain from the midst of the fire on the day of the assembly;^[3] as if he would say more plainly, on the day on which you were called and gathered together. And the psalmist says, I will give you thanks in a great church [ecclesia], in the mighty throng I will praise you.^[4]

Catechetical Lecture 18.24

CHRIST CONFERS THE ANOINTING.

St. Cyril of Jerusalem (c. 315-386; fl. c. 348) verse 12

You must know that this chrism [chrismation] is prefigured in the Old Testament. When Moses, conferring on his brother the divine appointment, was ordering him high priest, he anointed him after he had bathed in water, and thenceforward he was called christ [anointed], clearly after the figurative Chrism.

Catechetical Lecture 3.6

Leviticus 8:14-36 1 entry

ORDINATION SACRIFICESOCTAVE OF THE ORDINATION

PRIESTS MUST PRAY FOR FORGIVENESS.

St. Augustine of Hippo (354–430) verse 7

It seems that they have not paid sufficient attention to the fact that Zachary was a priest and that all priests at that time were obliged by the law of God to offer sacrifice first for their own sins and then for those of the people. Therefore, as it is now proved by the sacrifice of prayer that we are not sinless, since we are [daily] commanded to say, Forgive us our debts,^[1] so it was proved then by the sacrifice of animal victims that the priests were not sinless, since they were commanded to offer the victim for their own sins.

Letter 177