burnt sacrifice] All the cattell that were offered in sacrifice, were usually burnt: and therefore they might all be called burnt-sacrifices: but this rather then any, because it was wholly burnt; nothing saved of it but the skinne, Leviticus 7:8. of the Greeks called Holocaust, that is, wholly burnt. a male without blemish] A male, because that is the worthier sexe; without blemish, that is, the best and perfectest in his kind: see Annot. on Exodus 12:5. to signifie the perfection of the person, (whereof this sacrifice was a type, 1 Pet. 1. 18, 19. & 2 22.) and that God the Creator is worthy to be served with the best of his creatures. See Note on Genesis 4:4. voluntary will] There were other oblations which were not left free to a mans owne choyce, but were prescribed by expresse precept; as that of the first-borne, Exodus 22:29. besides others: yet none of them were to be offered against the will, but with a good will: for God loveth a chearefull giver, 2 Corinthians 9:7. at the doore of] Within the Court of the Tabernacle, and neere unto the doore of it, where it was to be presented before it was offered upon the Altar. For that part of the Tabernacle next to the doore was for the assembly of the people, the inner part neere to the doore of the Tabernacle, where the Altar stood, was onely for the Priests and Levites, whither the people might not come: This Tabernacle was a Type of Christ, Hebrews 9:11. by whom all services as by a doore, have passage to, and acceptance with his heavenly Father.