V. 2.— Who can have compassion on the ignorant, and on them that are out of the way; for that he himself also is compassed with infirmity. Being himself a man, he could have compassion on the ignorant and erring, being conscious that he was compassed with infirmities. This is probably mentioned by the Apostle, because no sacrifice was appointed or accepted for presumptuous sin. Psalms 51:16. This is one of the many proofs of the inferiority of the Jewish to the Christian dispensation— of the shadow to the substance. The man who sinned presumptuously was to be taken from God’ s altar and put to death; of this we have an example in the case of Joab; but the blood of Jesus cleanseth the believer from all sin. However aggravated our guilt, pardon is proclaimed to us through faith in Jesus.