Targums Onkelos / Pseudo-Jonathan / Jerusalem Fragments — Etheridge — Section 48
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Work: Targums of Onkelos and Jonathan ben Uzziel on the Pentateuch
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which could efficaciously atone for sin. But the divines who take this view are not agreed as to the principle upon which the offerings became expiative. a. Some have thought that the virtue of the sacrifice consisted in this,—that a certain material possession was given up by the offerer for the sake of gaining a spiritual bless- ing. 4, Others consider the sacrifice in the light of a fine, by the payment of which the offender is set right with his judge; while, c. Others, holding that evil rests in that which is material or sensual, and regarding blood as the representation of the …
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