Meditations-Le.3:14-17 “Caul”

While we are meditating on the body parts of heart breasts we have another part that is used by the Spirit entirely for spiritual significance that we associate with Christ.

First of all faith is what required.”And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him(He.11:6). Righteousness by faith is what burnt sacrifice under Levitical priesthood enjoined. Jesus is the Way and as the following verse makes it clear,

“If his offering be a burnt sacrifice of the herd, let him offer a male without blemish: he shall offer it of his own voluntary will at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation before the Lord(Le.1:3)”.

First we shall lay down the text:

“And he shall offer thereof his offering, even an offering made by fire unto the Lord; the fat that covereth the inwards, and all the fat that is upon the inwards,/ And the two kidneys, and the fat that is upon them, which is by the flanks, and the caul above the liver, with the kidneys, it shall he take away./ And the priest shall burn them upon the altar: it is the food of the offering made by fire for a sweet savour: all the fat is the Lord’s./ It shall be a perpetual statute for your generations throughout all your dwellings, that ye eat neither fat nor blood”(Le.3:14-17). Caul is a generic term covering everything that belongs to earthy man. His natural appetites world view and wherewithal to enter into the spirit of the world and also add to it, come under the term caul-‘the caul above the liver, with the kidneys,’ are to be burnt at the altar.

The last lines from the text,

“all the fat is the Lord’s./ It shall be a perpetual statute for your generations throughout all your dwellings, that ye eat neither fat nor blood.”

The quote from Adam Clarke is selected: “The blood was the life of the beast, and that was offered to make an atonement for their souls; consequently, this was never eaten in all their generations: but it was impossible to separate the fat from the flesh, which in many parts is so intimately intermixed with the muscular fibres; but the blood, being contained in separate vessels, the arteries and veins, might with great ease be entirely removed by cutting the throat of the animal, which was the Jewish method. By the fat therefore mentioned here and in the preceding verse, we may understand any fat that exists in a separate or unmixed state, such as the omentum or caul, the fat of the mesentery, the fat on the kidneys, and whatever else of the internal fat was easily separable, together with the whole of the tail…. And probably it was the fat of such animals only as were offered to God in sacrifice, that was unlawful to be eaten.