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Barry, A., in Smith's Dictionary of the Bible, i. (1863, 1893) 1.
Biggs, C. R. D., in Murray's Illustrated Bible Dictionary (1908), 1.
Brooke, H., Studies in Leviticus (1901), 33.
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Dictionary of the Bible, i. (1898) 2 (H. A. White).
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There can be no doubt as to the prominence of Aaron's career. In the great work of leading the children of Israel out of Egypt to the confines of the Promised Land, Aaron is second only to Moses. Although the younger man, Moses, in virtue of Divine appointment as well as of personal character, was the leader. He was even, as St. Paul tells the Galatians, a mediator between God and His people; he approached God on their behalf, and he conveyed to them God's revealed mind. But Aaron was the elder brother; and if in this case, as in that of the first Napoleon, the personal endowments and achievements of a younger man entirely reversed, even in the eye of mankind, the prestige attaching to earlier birth, there were still certain respects in which Aaron took the lead.
The two outward signs of his leadership were his power of oratory and his priesthood, and we may conveniently study his life under these two headings:-
I. Aaron the Prophet.
II. Aaron the Priest.