But Christ had a further purpose in coming into this world. His advent marked the end of the Old Law and the establishment of the New, and in the New no less than in the Old, a form of sacrifice to God must be had, the Clean Oblaticn that the prophets had foretold. So it was that the night before that first Good Friday, when He had celebrated for the last time the festival of the Wher an ordinary person hears the word sacrifice mentioned, he will think at once of something hard or difficult that he is required to do. But in reality, this is only a secondary meaning of the werd; the primary signification is the offering of an external gift to the Deity as an outward manifestation of cur veneration for Him. A fuller definition of the word would be the following: an external offering, by divine institution, of some sensible thing, made to God by a lawful minister, professing by its destruction or change God's supreme power and man's own absolute dependence and self-sacrifice. When then we offer sacrifice to God, what are we actually doing? Nothing else but showing God and our
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