CHRIST our SCAPE-GOAT. The Septuagint translates the verses about the azazel or scape-goat as follows: “Aaron shall present the goat on which the lot fell for the Lord, and offer it as a sin offering; but the goat on which the lot of the sent away one fell shall be presented alive before the Lord to make atonement over it, that it may be sent away into the wilderness” (Lev 16:9-10). The goat that was killed shows that Christ’s death paid the penalty of our sins. But the scape-goat declares: “As far as the east is from the west, so far has He removed our transgressions from us” (Ps 103:12). The sinner is redeemed; our sins are removed! In his poem, “Azazel,” I.Y. Ewan writes: I saw a goat with heavy head drooped low, With sunken eye, and worn, far-travelled feet; In that sad land alone, a living woe. I heard its hoarse, forsaken, piteous bleat. It pierced the moral universe on high, Upon eternal shores the echoes brake, That lone, that loud, that lamentable cry: “My God, My God, Why didst Thou Me forsake?”