The Gospel of Luke : a popular commentary upon a critical basis, especially designed for pastors and Sunday schools . ng parenthetic and explanatory of the last clause of To offer a sacrifice. The priestmet the mother at the eastern gate ofthe temple, received her offerings andsacrificed them upon the altar, and re-turned and sprinkled a little blood onher and pronounced her clean. The sac-rifice consisted regularly of a lamb fora burnt offering and a dove or pigeonfor a sin offering. Lev. 12 : 6. But ifthe mother was not able to bring a iamb,then she was permitted to bring twodoves or
The Gospel of Luke : a popular commentary upon a critical basis, especially designed for pastors and Sunday schools . ng parenthetic and explanatory of the last clause of To offer a sacrifice. The priestmet the mother at the eastern gate ofthe temple, received her offerings andsacrificed them upon the altar, and re-turned and sprinkled a little blood onher and pronounced her clean. The sac-rifice consisted regularly of a lamb fora burnt offering and a dove or pigeonfor a sin offering. Lev. 12 : 6. But ifthe mother was not able to bring a iamb,then she was permitted to bring twodoves or pigeons, one for a burnt offer-ing and the other for a sin offering, : 8, the passage here quoted. Maryfelt herself a sinner; she also in the tem-ple publicly acknowledged her in his birth Jesus became poor,2 Cor. 8 : 9. The offering, however,does not necessarily indicate such pov-erty as to i^revent the supposition thatshe may have possessed some small plotof ground at Bethlehem or at Naza-reth. Their absence from home mayhave deepened their poverty. Turtle-doves. Their name appears to have. TUBTLE-DOVE. been derived from their plaintive coo-ing. Their low sad plaint may beheard all day long at certain seasons inthe olive-groves, and in solitary andshady places among the mountains. . .So subdued, so very sorrowful amongthe trees, where the air sighs sof( ly, andthe little rills roll their melting mur- 66 LUKE 11. 4. 25 And, behold, tbere was .a man .Terusalein, whose °ch. was Simeon; and the same man was just and To^i-kk^64adevout, * waiting for the consolation of Israel: and » 26 the Holy Spirit was upon him. And *it was revealed ^| ^^jth^ ^% k?unto him by the Holy Spirit, that he should not see 52! Heb. 27 death, before he had seen nhe Lords Christ. And \^:^-^- he came • by the Spirit into the temple: and when 29 • * raurs down the flowery aisles.—, The Land and the Book, , p. 416. They are w
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