bead of the live-goate] The live-goate, or scape-goate was a type of Christ as well as that which was sacrificed; the sacrificed goate signified dying Christ; the scape-goate alive in the wildernesse, signified Christs deliverance from death, and living, as the separated goate, out of the communion of men, with whom he formerly conversed: See Annot. on vers. 8. 10. Yet some hold that this scape-goate was not to scape death, but to be killed and devoured by the wild beasts of the wildernesse; and that the one goate signified our Saviours suffering in the Citie of Jerusalem, the other his sufferings out of it, by barbarous and brutish men. The Devil as Gods Ape, sometimes enjoyned his Priests this expiation; for Herodotus reports, that the Egyptians were wont to heape up imprecations and curses upon the head of a sacrifice, selected for the purpose; that if any evill were impendent over them, or the Egyptians, it might be turned upon the head of the sacrifice: and then they cast it headlong into the River Nilus to be drowned; or sold it in the market to some Grecian, or profane person.