The Meat Offering

The name for what in the English version of the Old Testament Scripture is called meat offerings is minchah, the meaning of which is gift. Though all the offerings for the sanctuary bore this name, it is nevertheless a word that was selected by the Spirit as the proper and distinctive name for the meat offerings, which consisted not in the flesh of an animal, as might be erroneously inferred from the name that this offering bears in our English Bible, but in a portion of flour or cakes always...