Leviticus 16:27-28 - Exposition

As the blood of the bullock and the goat which had been offered in the special expiatory sacrifices of the day had been carried within the sanctuary ( Leviticus 16:14 , Leviticus 16:15 ), their bodies had to be burnt without the camp ( Leviticus 4:12 ). Our Lord being the antitype, not only of Aaron as the Great High Priest, but also of the expiatory sacrifices as the Great Sin Offering, the author of the Epistle to the Hebrews notices that the fact of Christ's having "suffered without the camp" serves as an indication that his blood had in its atoning effects been carried by him into heaven, the antitype of the holy of holies ( Hebrews 13:12 ). The flesh of the other goat, offered as a sin offering, would have been eaten by the priests in the evening, at a sacrificial meal ( Leviticus 10:17 , Leviticus 10:18 ).