...numbers died : and Aaron took his censer, and hastened to make an atonement for their sin, " and he stood between the living and the dead, and the plague was stayed." CHAPTER XV. AARON'S ROD BUDDETH. " AND the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, Speak unto the children of...

...felicitous and striking allusion to Mr. Pitt's resisting the torrent of Jacobin principles : — ' He stood between the living and the dead, and the plague was stayed.' The singular kindness, the extreme gentleness of his disposition, wholly free from gall, from vanity,...

...to make an atonement for the congregation, for there was wrath gone out from the Lord. — " And he stood between the living and the dead, and the plague was stayed," Numbers xvi., 46. God's anger was thus turned away by making this atonement. In David's time, by offering...

...censer, and putting himself in his peculiar position of high priest, to make atonement for the people, stood between the living and the dead, and the plague was stayed. Thus the attempt of the people to degrade him, moved God to exalt him, so that he should represent to them the...

...hand, and fire ic it from off- the altar (God Almighty never let me be without a spark of holy fire) and stood between the living and the dead, and the plague was stayed. I want all God's ministers to take their stand between the living and the dead, and always mark the...

...and stay the plague. What love ! pity ! forbearance ! intercession ! are here displayed ! " And Aaron stood between the living and the dead ; and the plague was stayed." Notice I. THE SIMILARITY BETWEEN AARON AND CHRIST. 1. What Aaron did was as the high priest of the...

...moment." What would now have been their fate if it had not been for the atonement made by Aaron ? " He stood " between the living and the dead, and the plague was " stayed ! " The punishment of Korah with his two associates Dathan aad Abiram, is one of the most striking...

...forth from the Lord, and that the plague was begun. Aaron did so, and ran into the midst of the people, and stood between the living and the dead, and the plague was stayed ; and there died of the people on this occasion, besides those who perished on the preceding day, fourteen...

...from the Lord ; the plague is begun !" Aaron did so, " and he put on incense, and made an atonement, and stood between the living and the dead ; and the plague was stayed.":): Had there been time, Aaron was required to bring the two goats for a sin-offering, and a ram for a...

...singularly felicitous and striking allusion to Mr. Pitt's resisting the torrent of Jacobin principles : ' He stood between the living and the dead, and the plague was stayed.'. . . Wherefore, when he stood forward as the leader of the Abolition, vowed implacable war against Slavery...