Treasury of Scripture
the ram of consecration
Leviticus 8:2,29 Take Aaron and his sons with him, and the garments, and the anointing oil, and a bullock for the sin offering, and two rams...
Leviticus 7:37 This is the law of the burnt offering, of the meat offering, and of the sin offering, and of the trespass offering...
Exodus 29:19-31 And you shall take the other ram; and Aaron and his sons shall put their hands on the head of the ram...
John 17:19 And for their sakes I sanctify myself, that they also might be sanctified through the truth.
1 Corinthians 1:30 But of him are you in Christ Jesus, who of God is made to us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption:
2 Corinthians 5:21 For he has made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.
Ephesians 5:25,27 Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it...
Revelation 1:5,6 And from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, and the first begotten of the dead, and the prince of the kings of the earth...
`The ram of consecration' was evidently a sacrifice of {peace offering} though presented on a particular occasion. Part of the blood was applied, not as that of the sin offering, to the horns of the altar, but to Aaron and his sons; to the tips of their right ears, the thumbs of their right hands, and the great toes their right feet: implying their obligation to hearken diligently to the word of God--to do his work in the best manner which they could, and to walk in his ways with steady perseverance; and also, that they could not do these things acceptably except through the atoning blood, received and applied by faith. Then part of the blood reserved upon the altar, probably in a basin for that purpose, was mingled with the holy anointing oil, and sprinkled on the garments of aaron and his sons, to hallow them to the Lord. `This may be looked upon as a lively representation of our purification by the blood of jesus Christ, through his Holy Spirit.' Bp. Patrick