The Burnt-Offering of Fowls a Type of Christ

    Le 1:14.

    I. THE Fowls that were appointed for Burnt-offerings, were to be turtles or pigeons, signifying the meekness and innocency of Christ.

    II. The neck of the Fowl was to be pinched with the nail, that the blood might go out, but not that the head should be plucked off from the body; signifying how Christ should die and shed his blood, yet thereby his Deity, as the head or principal part, should not be divided from his humanity; nor yet by his death should he, who is our Head, be taken from his Church, but should rise again, and be with them by his Spirit for ever, Joh 14:3.

    III. The blood thereof was strained or pressed out at the side of the altar, before it was plucked, and laid upon the altar to be burned; signifying thereby the straining or pressing out of Christ's blood in his grievous agony in the garden, before he was taken, and stripped to be crucified, &c., Lu 24:44.