/1/ Where formerly a
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1. Porphyry, De Abstin. ii.26. Compare Joseph., Contra Apion,
ii. 13: )OUTOI )EUXONTAI UEIN (EKATOMBAS TOIS QEOIS KAI XRWNTAI
TOIS (IEREIOIS PROS )EUWXIAN.
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thank-offering which was eaten before Jehovah, and which might with
greater clearness be called a sacrificial meal, was prescribed, the
Priestly Code, as we shall afterwards see, has made out of it
simple dues to the priests, as, for example, in the case of the
first-born and of firstlings. Only in this point it still bears
involuntary testimony to the old custom by applying the names
_Todah, Neder, and Nedabah_, of which the last two in particular must
necessarily have a quite general meaning (Leviticus xxii. 18; Ezekiel
xlvi. 12), exclusively to the thank-offering, while _Milluim_ and
paschal sacrifice are merely subordinate varieties of it.
II.II.4. What the thank-offering has lost, the sin and trespass
offering have gained; the voluntary private offering which the
sacrificer ate in a joyful company at the holy place has given
way before the compulsory, of which he obtains no share, and from
which the character of the sacred meal has been altogether taken
away.
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