any blemish] For as the sacrifice by death was a type of Christ, and therefore must be without blemish; Exodus 12:5. Leviticus 22:19. 1 Pet. 1. 19. so the Priest by oblation was a type of Christs free-offering up of himself, and therefore he was to be without blemish also: And now though such blemishes do not disable men from the ministery of the Gospel, such remarkable deformities as apparently procure contempt, should discourage any from undertaking that calling; especially when they are to be set up to the publike view, and there withall to disdain; whereby the ministery is neither so awfull or fruitfull as by another it might be: but that which in the Evangelicall ministery is most liable to exception, is such blemishes in the minde, or manners, as make them unable to be teachers, unfit to be examples to their flocks, as is required, 1 Pet. 5. 2, 3. bread] By which is meant all Oblations allowed for food, especially the Shew-bread, which the inferiour Priests every sabbath, brought new, and set upon the table of the Shew-bread, and took away the old. See vers. 6.