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shall bear = shall bear away, as Isa_53:4.
land not inhabited. Hebrew "a land cut off".
let go. This is the point of the type. The live goat was sent away, not in judgment or atonement, but in peace and at liberty. "All" had already been atoned for in the death of the other goat (Lev_16:10). Now he was free to go into the land of forgetfulness, where their "sins and iniquities are remembered no more" (Isa_43:25. Jer_31:34). The scapegoat goes forth to 'Azazel, all enemies thus personified (Heb_2:14), proclaiming, "Who is he that condemneth? "(Rom_8:33, Rom_8:34). Not in fear of death, but saying, "Who dares to kill me? "It is the lesson, over again, of the "two birds" in Ch. Lev_14:51-53, applied to the whole nation. It is a type of those who are "risen with Christ" (Col_3:1), i.e. made alive again in His resurrection life. Tradition treats this second goat as loaded with sin and sent out to destruction; whereas "all" is "atoned" for and is therefore "forgiven" and liberty enjoyed before it was sent away.