Verse 4
4. Flesh with the life thereof Literally, Only flesh in its life, its blood, ye shall not eat a humane restriction, the necessity of which is seen in the barbarous and gluttonous cruelty of some heathen nations . The animal is not to be used for food until life has become wholly extinct . The restriction forbidding the eating or cooking of an animal while capable of suffering pain is in that benevolent spirit which pervades all the Bible, and has a care for the sparrow that falls . Another reason for this prohibition is, that blood is considered as typical of expiation and atonement . This is assigned in the Mosaic law, (Leviticus 17:10-11,) “for the life of the flesh is in the blood; and I have given it to you upon the altar to make an atonement for your souls . ” By this legislation the way was prepared for the reception of the great gospel doctrine that without the shedding of blood there is no remission of sins, and that Christ is the propitiation for our sins .
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