94. I know also that not even bodily
blemishes in either priests Lev. xxi. 17. or victims Ib. xxii.
19. passed without notice, but that it was
required by the law that perfect sacrifices must be offered by perfect
men—a symbol, I take it, of integrity of soul. It was not
lawful for everyone to touch the priestly vesture, or any of the holy
vessels; nor might the sacrifices themselves be consumed except by the
proper persons, and at the proper time and place; Ib. viii.
31. nor might the anointing oil nor the
compounded incense Exod. xxx. 33, 38. be imitated; nor
might anyone enter the temple who was not in the most minute particular
pure in both soul and body; so far was the Holy of holies removed from
presumptuous access, that it might be entered by one man only once a
year; Lev. xvi. 34; Heb. ix. 7. so far were the veil, and the mercy-seat,
and the ark, and the Cherubim, from the general gaze and
touch.