SCAPEGOAT, The, C. H. Cayce In the offering in which there was a scapegoat, two goats were used. See Lev. 16. Both these goats represented the work of Christ in His atonement and sacrifice for sin. One of the goats was slain. So was Christ slain. The priest laid his hands on the head of the scapegoat and confessed the sins of Israel on the head of that goat, then the goat was carried away by a fit man into the land of forgetfulness. Our sins were laid on Christ; see Isa. 53:6. He bore our sins in His own body on the tree; see 1 Pet. 2:24. He put away sin by the sacrifice of Himself; see Heb. 9:26. The scapegoat, therefore, represented the work of Christ in carrying our sins away into the land of forgetfulness, where they will be remembered against us no more. Our sins are, therefore, atoned for, satisfaction is made for them; and they are also all borne away, in the work of Christ. The Primitive Baptist, November 24, 1908.